What a fun year we had with our schools and Head Starts in Mississippi and Louisiana that are participating in the Thriving Communities, Thriving Children grant (TC2)!
Thanks to funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this past spring these sites had the opportunity to plant gardens at their schools and Head Start centers. As a way to promote good nutrition, children got to learn about the growing process of their favorite fruits and vegetables. In addition to each site getting creative and choosing their own seeds or seedlings to grow, they also used the OWG Garden Kit and Garden Signs to enhance nutrition education.
A big thank you to the schools and Head Start centers for sharing these garden photographs with us. Keep up the great work!
Central City Head Start in New Orleans waters their OrganWise garden.
Children at Gautier Elementary in Pascagoula, MS show off their gardening tools.
Gardens are a great educational tool for young kids too, as displayed by a City of Jackson early childhood development center in Jackson, MS.
These young children in Jackson, MS know the importance of watering their garden!
A school staff member at Gautier Elementary in Pascagoula, MS tends to their newly planted garden.
