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Creating awareness, building infrastructure, and teaching behavioral change to bring clean water to students at Manual Arts High School.

VOYAGE LA

I spent most of my time as a child playing in the dirt alongside my mother and grandmothers, learning about the plants they delicately placed in their garden beds and planters. At the time, these hours spent outside together seemed like a fun way to pass the time, but the skills and mindsets I developed while working have stayed with me. Gardening taught me about the interconnectedness of humans and nature firsthand. Gardening has been a constant in my life – it is something I always come back to. 

THE LITTLE MARKET

Most of the students at Manual Arts rely on the district’s free lunch program — often devoid of healthy options. This bothered me. I saw an immediate need and a way to combat it: convert the abandoned lot behind the gym into a garden. I have always felt a sense of ease when I’m gardening. And frankly, there is nothing better than eating what you have grown. Building a garden felt like a natural solution to so many of the problems students experience daily. I wanted the students to feel the same connection to gardening that I have felt my whole life 

THE TODAY SHOW

At Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, the options for healthy food nearby are limited. To combat this, teacher Bari Applebaum and her students formed a club to plant an edible garden at the school.

KTLA

One Manual Arts High School teacher is helping feed her students by teaching them how to plant vegetable seeds and trees. It's part of a project to grow sustainable public gardens in places known as "food deserts," where it's hard for families to afford fresh food.