2018 Challenge Winners

Congratulations to Earth to Table, Broward County School Board  community gardening project for winning the 2018 Green Thumb Challenge grant!.

Earth to Table has an enrollment of 75 boys and girls between the ages of 7-15, and is rapidly growing. The youth participants plant and tend to an organic garden of lettuce, carrots, tomatoes avocado, potatoes, squash and cucumbers, as well as a  hydroponic garden of herbs such as basil and chives.

The garden, also know as “THE PATCH”, is located in the back of the C.W. Thomas Community Center allowing them to access the garden anytime during the open hours. The program’s initiatives are environmental preservation, physical growth, nutrition, education and social development of local public school students living in particular under served neighborhoods like Dania Beach, FL.

E2T focuses on teaching the youth the importance of taking pride in themselves, and the responsibility of preserving the environment/community around them.

Read about the winning project here.

GEF received many grant applications from across the country.

Congratulations also to our runners-up: West Central Garden Project of Joplin, Missouri, and Namaste Montessori School,  Goffstown, New Hampthire.  Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry. Every garden was unique and demonstrated the amazing things that happen when children are connected with nature!

As the finalist, the Earth to Table program won a $1000 Gardener’s Supply Company gift certificate and $250 to go towards the sustainability of their garden!

 Be sure to read about the garden projects of all the finalists, listed to the right.