Sunny Days Ahead for the Sunset Hill School Garden

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The vibrant town of Lawrence, Kan., is turning heads thanks to its successful school garden projects. After a great first year of the West Junior High garden project, which included the students selling produce at weekly school markets, other schools around Lawrence decided to take the gardening plunge and get involved.

Central Junior High, Corpus Christi Elementary, Free State High School, Hillcrest Elementary and Sunset Hill Elementary are all starting gardens. Earlier this month, I joined teachers, students and community members in a work day at Sunset Hill. The Community Mercantile Education Foundation, which helped start the West garden, helped secure grants for the Sunset Hill garden project from the Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund and from the state.

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