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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Hampton Elementary School Community based Garden Build!

Thyais Maxwell, Principal,  Johnette Walser, Social worker, Laura Tew, Master Gardener Mentor, Skip Crow, Cottage Grove Initiative, and Cynthia Nielsen, School Garden Network have been planning the creation of Hampton’s school garden for the past 6 months. Habitat for Humanity had generously agreed to fund the garden construction. The day finally came this last Saturday! Here is Johnette Walser posing at the “before” site where the garden was planned to be created.




 Mrs. Klawitter Media Specialist and teachers Mrs. Summerrell, Ms. Youngblood, Mr. Smith, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Alexander and 16 students were all present and played important parts in the garden build.






Community support was great with many neighborhood Church partners getting involved. We had volunteers from Good News Baptist Church, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, and Living Hope Missionary Baptist Church.



A dedication day celebration is being planned for later in the spring to include Habitat for Humanity and other key supporters. Go Eagles!


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