Grow Our Strengths: Missouri Students Turn Plans Into Action

This feature from the Rural Trust's Center for Midwestern Initiatives shows how a school garden can link students with their community.

Glenwood School in West Plains, Missouri, has started a new project with big hopes of contributing to their community. In the spring of 2011, Glenwood K-8 school district in Howell County received a $4,600 Coover Foundation Place-Based Grant from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks’ Rural Schools Partnership.

The Glenwood “Grow Our Strengths” Garden Project — created by Juliet Cobb, a parent, local high school teacher, and President of the Glenwood School Foundation — is a project that will teach students how to grow their own produce for use in the school kitchen and to donate to the community food pantry, along with learning to compost waste from the school kitchen.

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