Whole Foods Porter Ranch Donates to Local Our Community School for Gardening Program
Chatwaorth, CA, June 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Whole Foods in Porter Ranch California donated 20 tons of compost to local Our Community School (OCS) to assist with the schools gardening program. This past year OCS students were taught a comprehensive gardening class.
According to Joyce de Brevannes at Wholefoods Porter Ranch, “A big part of our community outreach at Porter Ranch is working with our neighboring schools. It’s been a true pleasure to help the garden at Our Community School grow. It’s such a treat to watch the kids getting excited about planting and a fun, hands on way to help teach kids about healthy eating. OCS is a terrific school and we look forward to doing more with them in the future.”
Today, OCS will be planting a three Sisters Garden/Pumpkin Patch in which every class will participate. The school hopes to have representatives from their local Native American tribes present as well as inviting their friends at Whole Foods. The three Sisters Garden is a Native American growing style where corn, beans, and squash are believed to be the three inseparable sisters who only grow and thrive together. This tradition of interplanting corn, beans and squash in the same mounds, is a sophisticated, sustainable system that provided long-term soil fertility and a healthy diet to generations. OCS will be planting pumpkins, corn and pole beans in varieties which each class has chosen.
Erin Riley, Garden Coordinator, stated “What the students sow now, at the end of the school year, will be ready to reap when the students return after summer and just in time for a back to school and Halloween.
Chris Ferris, Principal at Our Community School stated,"I am so excited and I know the children are too, we are going to have pumpkins in our garden next fall! Thanks to Erin Riley and Whole Foods and Ira Harrison and the American fertilizer Foundation we have resources to put in a compost bin, add new dirt and fix our irrigation so the veggie gardens will be healthy all summer and we have our first ever pumpkin patch."
Further gardening plans are scheduled for next year as well, including a composting program and a California native garden/seed collecting garden.
For more information on Our Community School please visit: http://ourcommunityschool.org/.
About Our Community School
OCS is a tuition-free, public charter school where staff members, students and families collaborate in the ongoing process of education. Our diverse and caring community balances academics with creativity, thereby fostering independent thinkers, problem solvers and leaders. Our goal is for all students to be proficient in language arts, mathematics, science, history and the humanities, as well as the visual and performing arts because OCS nurtures the whole child, addressing the intellectual, social, emotional, creative, physical and collaborative aspects of your child’s education. We empower students to become informed and ethical members of our democratic society.
According to Joyce de Brevannes at Wholefoods Porter Ranch, “A big part of our community outreach at Porter Ranch is working with our neighboring schools. It’s been a true pleasure to help the garden at Our Community School grow. It’s such a treat to watch the kids getting excited about planting and a fun, hands on way to help teach kids about healthy eating. OCS is a terrific school and we look forward to doing more with them in the future.”
Today, OCS will be planting a three Sisters Garden/Pumpkin Patch in which every class will participate. The school hopes to have representatives from their local Native American tribes present as well as inviting their friends at Whole Foods. The three Sisters Garden is a Native American growing style where corn, beans, and squash are believed to be the three inseparable sisters who only grow and thrive together. This tradition of interplanting corn, beans and squash in the same mounds, is a sophisticated, sustainable system that provided long-term soil fertility and a healthy diet to generations. OCS will be planting pumpkins, corn and pole beans in varieties which each class has chosen.
Erin Riley, Garden Coordinator, stated “What the students sow now, at the end of the school year, will be ready to reap when the students return after summer and just in time for a back to school and Halloween.
Chris Ferris, Principal at Our Community School stated,"I am so excited and I know the children are too, we are going to have pumpkins in our garden next fall! Thanks to Erin Riley and Whole Foods and Ira Harrison and the American fertilizer Foundation we have resources to put in a compost bin, add new dirt and fix our irrigation so the veggie gardens will be healthy all summer and we have our first ever pumpkin patch."
Further gardening plans are scheduled for next year as well, including a composting program and a California native garden/seed collecting garden.
For more information on Our Community School please visit: http://ourcommunityschool.org/.
About Our Community School
OCS is a tuition-free, public charter school where staff members, students and families collaborate in the ongoing process of education. Our diverse and caring community balances academics with creativity, thereby fostering independent thinkers, problem solvers and leaders. Our goal is for all students to be proficient in language arts, mathematics, science, history and the humanities, as well as the visual and performing arts because OCS nurtures the whole child, addressing the intellectual, social, emotional, creative, physical and collaborative aspects of your child’s education. We empower students to become informed and ethical members of our democratic society.
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818-800-8836
ourcommunityschool.org/
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