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Eagle Crest Elementary students G.R.O.W. their own gardens

Eagle Crest Elementary student rope off their square foot gardens | Kira Horvath

On Earth day, students at Eagle Crest Elementary geared up for the final stages of their year-long G.R.O.W. project. For the project, which stands for Gardens Renew Our World, students were each able to create their own 1 square foot garden with plants like lettuce, cabbage, radishes, spinach and marigolds.

They started in October with “Leave No Child Inside” day by holding a garden groundbreaking where students cleared a 20-by-20 foot area to get ready for the gardens. Then parents and students got together in December to build 20 planters for the project.

As part of the St. Vrain Valley School District’s Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement program the G.R.O.W. project allowed students to plan their own gardens by researching and choosing the seeds they wanted to plant, and working with landscape designer Cherie Stringer of TLC Gardens.

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