“Everything I did at the Women’s Center, I applied to my own home garden where I planted scallions, cilantro, radishes and chili peppers.”
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“As partners, we grow our own food, harvest it and provide healthy meals for our families.”
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“My daughter and I grew cilantro that we later sold to the nearby shop.”
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“We did everything ourselves: brought more soil for planting, put dividers in the planting box and dug up the weeds.”
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“We organized shifts to work in the garden. We also got the boys involved.”
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“With the establishment of the Eco Huerto Program, we achieved several important goals, including:”
- Students’ involvement in a healthy activity, beneficial to themselves and their families.
- Plots of unused community land were reactivated when students encouraged their parents to undertake small farming activities.
- In addition to planting, students wrote poems, songs and short stories about their gardening experience.
- Involvement of students, teachers and families
- Development of such values as solidarity, responsibility, self-sufficiency and service as well as skills like organization, creative and critical thinking, scientific exploration, aesthetics and more.
Prof. Gaudy Ruiz, Director of the René Descartes School