All 65 of my 3rd grade STEAM students are civic-minded artists and scientists looking for meaningful work to strengthen their community. Our school has grown this year to add 3rd as its senior grade. We need challenges befitting these leaders of the school. Health and sustainability of our community is at stake. Our universal lunch and breakfast program are major resources, yet create unacceptable levels of waste.
Revolution Foods has improved our food's quality this year, but we are producing an alarming amount of nutrition waste in Boston Public Schools. We are turning this deficit into an asset.
Our lunchroom staff interrupts our waste as best as they can, with food recovery, share tables, and personally organizing donations.
Our students want to take on more responsibility. We will profit academically, emotionally, and monetarily from our leftovers. We aim to make soil for our school garden.
With "free" soil, we will extend our vegetable and fruit garden and add a large pollinator flower bed. This newly transformed soil (wrought through responsibly tending to our food waste) will create opportunities for floral arrangements, still lives, design studies, observational drawing, and scientific research!
Designed by the Green Club, the founding of a flower garden (think Monet, bouquets, and pollinators) will create a space to create from the ground up (no pun intended!)
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All 65 of my 3rd grade STEAM students are civic-minded artists and scientists looking for meaningful work to strengthen their community. Our school has grown this year to add 3rd as its senior grade. We need challenges befitting these leaders of the school. Health and sustainability of our community is at stake. Our universal lunch and breakfast program are major resources, yet create unacceptable levels of waste.
Revolution Foods has improved our food's quality this year, but we are producing an alarming amount of nutrition waste in Boston Public Schools. We are turning this deficit into an asset.
Our lunchroom staff interrupts our waste as best as they can, with food recovery, share tables, and personally organizing donations.
Our students want to take on more responsibility. We will profit academically, emotionally, and monetarily from our leftovers. We aim to make soil for our school garden.
With "free" soil, we will extend our vegetable and fruit garden and add a large pollinator flower bed. This newly transformed soil (wrought through responsibly tending to our food waste) will create opportunities for floral arrangements, still lives, design studies, observational drawing, and scientific research!
Designed by the Green Club, the founding of a flower garden (think Monet, bouquets, and pollinators) will create a space to create from the ground up (no pun intended!)
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