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OKT & friends planted Program for Growth food gardens at two schools

Jun5

Our Kitchen Table launched its Program for Growth at two schools in May. We are again growing food with parents, caregivers, and students at Grand Rapids Public Schools Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Academy and Kentwood Public Schools Glenwood Elementary School.

The photos show students, parents, and OKT food garden coaches planting the new food gardens.

The gardens provides programs for students in grades K-12, including garden education during school and as part of after-school and summer programs. Students grow food on school grounds, integrate garden activities into their curricula, and save and share seeds with community.

KCAD graduate students design/build raised beds for OKT

May25

On April 19, a group of graduate architecture students at Kendall College of Art and Design designed and built five large and two small raised garden-beds at Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Academy. After filling with organic composted soil, Our Kitchen Table Program for Growth participants planted the beds with organic vegetable starter plants on April 23 and 24.

Now the Program for Growth has even more space to grow nutritious food for students at school, their families and people in the neighborhood!

Special thanks to Stephanie Balke, owner, Balke Planning & Designs and Quentin Rauch, president, American Institute of Architecture Students.