The Problem
We would like to encourage multiple generations to interact with each other over a common theme of healthy eating. Learning about pollinators and to grow vegetables in an accessible location to all.
Our Plan
We would like to build and grow a community garden in our Children's Garden space. We plan to plant along with our community's local middle and high school students after school science club. They recently reached out to us looking for a space that could be centrally used and accessible to all residents in our community. Our intentions are to offer the vegetables grown with our local families as well as supplement the "weekend meal backpacks" that are shared with identified families in need. Our library has an established polinator garden that the our patrons love to observe. As a library we have been able to educate our patrons about the many varieties of bees, insects amd wildlife this garden offers home and sustance to. By adding a vegetable garden our hope is to encourage our younger children to develop a curiosity about their healthy vegetables and space for adult patrons to gather and harvest fresh produce for themselves. By offering this opportunity to garden, it encourages older children and teens to engage in a positive way with our aging community.
Themes Addressed
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Education
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Food Choices
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Kindness
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Pollinators
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The Benefit
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People
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Animals
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Environment
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