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Ms. Flores from Los Angeles CA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

California Native Plants School Garden

Help me give my students an opportunity to put their environmental justice research into action! They will create a school garden that will create green space on campus and be centered around the benefits of California Native plants!

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

I am currently a 12th-grade English teacher at MSTMA Roosevelt High School. I am interested in getting a school garden started at our school site that will be tended to by our students! Currently, my students are working on a Youth Participatory Action Research Project that centers around the reciprocal relationship we hold with the land and water.

Students will explore how they tend to the land/plants through their research of available green spaces in their communities, California Native plants, and environmental/climate justice.

They will conduct their research on current western environmental conservationist theory and on traditional indigenous ecological knowledge. We want students to be able to build a garden that can be past down to future class generations. They will learn the benefits of California native plants, how to plant and tend to these plant friends, and lastly how planting is part of activism in some communities!

A school garden would be a wonderful opportunity for students to put their research into action. We want students to reflect on how our relationship with the land reflects our relationship with each other. This project will help produce plants that are essential for California ecosystems, such as planting milkweed for the monarch butterflies. Additionally, we would like to start growing edible California plants such as miner's lettuce, so that in the future we can provide produce for a few community members.

Ms. Flores
Never Before Funded Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
BIRASIL Outdoor Raised Garden Bed, Wood Planter Box for Vegetable Flower, Elevated Reinforced Large Garden Planters Boxes for Backyard Patio Gardening Balcony (48.5”L, Natural Wood) • Amazon Business $68.99 8 $551.92
Gardening Tool Set (6 Pcs) Spade Shovel Rake for Garden Plants Care House Plants Flower Pot Cactus Vegetables Kids Indoor Small Plants Mini Medium Plant Tool Succulent Kit • Amazon Business $7.98 15 $119.70
Utopia Home - Plant Pots Indoor with Drainage - 7/6.6/6/5.3/4.8 Inches Home Decor Flower Pots for Indoor Planter - Pack of 10 Plastic Planters for Indoor Plants, Cactus, Succulents Pot - White • Amazon Business $15.94 6 $95.64
60 Packs 3.15 Inch Peat Pots for Seedlings, Biodegradable Seeds Starter Nursery Pots, Holes Round Seed Starter Pots for Plant Vegetables or Gardening Supplies with Bonus 10 Pcs Plant Labels. • Amazon Business $13.98 2 $27.96
120 pcs Plastic Plant Tags,Ishua T-Type Markers Nursery Garden Labels Stakes for Gardening Green House Humidity Dome Orchard Botanical Garden Assorted Color 2.36"x3.94"inches (6x10 cm) • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98

Materials cost

$807.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $73.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$923.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$162.91

Total project goal

$1,086.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,086.08

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 $1,086.08

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