As part of our efforts to create a food forest at the Takoma Park Elementary School, we installed raised beds and established an after school gardening club. It is being used to teach students at TPES how to grow and harvest food. The club was so popular in its first year that we are expanding it so that more students in each grade can participate and get a chance to learn how to sow seeds, tend seedlings, maintain the beds and harvest the produce.

This project was made possible through the kind support of the City of Takoma Park, for which we are deeply grateful.