Demonstration Organic Garden

As part of her 2018 Girl Scout Gold Award project (the highest achievement in Girl Scouts), Sofie Gmerek, pictured above with our gardener, funded for and supervised the creation of an organic vegetable and fruit garden at our school. She hired our gardener so that he could oversee the garden and teach students and their families how to improve their nutritional diet and by diversifying away from single-crop dependency on rice through raising various vegetables and fruits organically. Selling  organic produce at local markets could also supplement families’ income. The harvest is shared among the families of all students who work with our gardener.

If you would like to help fund the Demonstration Organic Garden Project, these are ways you can help:

• $25 for vegetable seeds

• $50 for 3-5 young fruit trees ready for planting

• $100 for one month’s salary for our gardener

• $1200 for a full year’s salary for our gardener

To help, please click on the link below.

(From left) our gardener preparing compost for planting. (2nd left) Our gardener watering plants by hand. (Middle and 4th left) Our gardener teaching students in 2018. (Right) Students display their first harvest to share with their families.

(Left) Our gardener helps students planting rows in early 2018. (2nd left, middle, 4th left) Vegetables ready for harvest during our February 2019 volunteer visit. These three photos are a testament to our gardener and students’ effort to rebuild the garden after a July 2018 powerful storm ravaged our garden The devastation can bee seen in the photo at (Right).

(Left) in 2019, we expanded the variety of crops grown by planting okra, morning glory, and two kinds of beans. (2nd left and middle) In 2020, we’ve expanded our garden to an area behind our school and planted papaya and other fruit trees that are taking hold now.