On September 26th, GrowingGreat (GG) and Pius X Matthias Academy (PMA) worked together to transform a piece of dry, barren land to a edible garden classroom on the PMA campus in Downey, open to students and the community. Thanks to the hard work of 40+ PMA students and teachers and GG staff, the...
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Hi! My name is Kristina Halverson and I am so excited to begin the school year as a member of the GrowingGreat team! Before pursuing a career in nutrition, I was an elementary school teacher in New Orleans. In my classroom, it didn’t take long for me to see how important it was for our
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I am very excited to be working with the wonderful people at GrowingGreat! I was a GrowingGreat docent many years ago when my kids were at Robinson Elementary School. A lot has changed since then. I am very impressed with the way that GrowingGreat has reached out to other communities, added the...
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On May 15, GrowingGreat, the Astellas USA Foundation and Para Los Niños Hollywood Head Start teachers and preschool students celebrated the opening of the school’s new STEM herb, fruit, and vegetable garden. Astellas scientists Dr. Kendall Morrison and Dr. Karen Morrison (pictured...
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By Jill Coons This year, GrowingGreat is honoring Marisa for her volunteer work alongside her mother, Robinson docent Corina McGovern, at GrowingGreat’s fourth annual Farm to Table Benefit. To find out more about the Benefit, click here. When Chef Diana Stavaridis from Manhattan...
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Thanks to a new partnership between GrowingGreat and Garden Lites®, we can tweet our way to a healthier world. The national vegetable snack food company is generously providing financial support and launching a Twibbon campaign for GrowingGreat. Between now and February 28th, GardenLites® will...
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CLICK HERE TO DONATE In 2017, GrowingGreat hopes to support our 19 new preschool partners with garden and nutrition education. Children attending these schools live in the lowest-income areas of Los Angeles, from Hollywood to Skid Row, a reality in which their parents do not have enough...
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“There’s definitely magic in eating food that you grew and picked yourself. I think all the kids feel it.” -Jennifer Conlon SHE VOLUNTEERS AT: Linwood E. Howe Elementary in Culver City JENNIFER HAS BEEN VOLUNTEERING FOR: 1.5 Years SHE IS BEING RECOGNIZED FOR: Her Outstanding...
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If you are, then you understand that parents will do anything to make sure that their children have happy, healthy futures. And you must also know that when many parents join forces, they can transform whole communities in the name of their children. Seventeen years after three mothers founded...
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Last week, I wrote about how this blog is changing directions. From now on, you can expect to read about two topics: Stories about you – individual volunteers, donors and community partners from the GrowingGreat community Innovative activities and ideas that you, individual volunteers, donors...
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