President's Project - School Garden Project

NGC President Barbara May announces her President’s Project for School Gardens emphasizing her theme:  Nurture the Earth:  Plant Natives—Plant Organically.

This project will target elementary grade schools.  Students, with the guidance of the teacher and sponsoring garden clubs, will be encouraged to create diverse native gardens.  The school classroom will be the garden laboratory; the students and teachers will be engaged in the education of the native plants, the use of organic methods of both floral and vegetable gardening and the global impact of native plants in our environment throughout the United States and South America.

The creation of the school garden project has no boundaries; it can be a small/large, portable/stationary, but must incorporate the education and reason of sustainability of our native plants.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

1. A NGC member club must sponsor the School Garden Project.

2. The School Garden Projects based in an elementary classroom or on school grounds must:

        a.  Focus and study the importance of native plants, in the appropriate zone
        b.  Create a garden
        c.  Incorporate some education of native plants

3. The school garden project must be a NEW project or a NEW PHASE of an existing school or classroom garden.

APPLICATION

To receive NGC Certificate of Participation the sponsoring garden club must submit a ONE page original and a copy of the report by December 2007 or December 2008 with the following information:

        * Garden Club
        * Contact Name (Must be NGC garden club member)
        * School Name    Grade    City/State
        * Brief Description of Project
        * Photo of Project

    Download the School Garden Project Application Form - Word or PDF file

Contact NGC School Garden Projects Chairmen, Bonnie Dinneen or Carol Bullard, for more information.