GrowingGreat Welcomes Inner-City Preschoolers Back to School

In July and August GrowingGreat staff is hosting nutrition education booths at Caruso Head Start ,W.M. Keck Primary Center Head Start and other Para Los Niños sites’ Parent Orientation programs, in both Spanish and English. Parents and students participate in GrowingGreat’s hands-on activity, Beans in a Bag, showing families how to grow their own green beans at home. Jackson Wiley from the Además Foundation brought environmentally-friendly garden tools and a library of garden books based on GrowingGreat’s series of hands-on nutrition and STEM activities.