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The 2017 Gilda Allen Best School Garden Award Winners

Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School

Daishai' Kyle

Thurgood Marshall Academy (TMA) has applied much hard work and effort into the TMA Garden. The students play a larger role in the gardening process than the instructors. Although the instructors have taught the students everything that they know, they allow the students to do everything by themselves. All the vegetables that are freshly grown in the garden are also used to make meals after the students pick them themselves. All vegetables are grown fresh in the garden and are picked at perfect timing, so that they are just right. The instructors take their time to beautify the garden by laying mulch and killing all of the weeds that are prone to killing all the vegetables and fruits. The garden has come a long way from where it has started and is only willing to expand even more for further years.


Stoddert Elementary School

Jack Hare

For many schools, agricultural learning means things like slides, lectures, etc., but at my school, this isn’t how it is. Here at Stoddert Elementary School, since 2013 there has been a school garden. Kids can not only get up close and personal with plants, they can also learn how to plant vegetables and fruit. Stoddert uses this also to earn a little money by running a farmer’s market, where you can buy carrots, squash, cucumbers, and more. Not only that, but you can also purchase homemade lemonade, if you want some added sugar with your greens. Children can also learn about bugs and even chickens, along with some other miscellaneous creatures. Yessiree, we really do have it all at the Stoddert Elementary Garden.


DC Bilingual Public Charter School

Milton Ayala, Bryan Mendoza, Amsi Benavides, Sharya McBrayer

Our garden is the best because it’s an ecosystem. My favorite thing is our pond! Our pond is also an ecosystem...in there we have fish and algae. My favorite job is to plant the vegetables and fruit with a watering can and the sunlight starts to shine and that makes plants grow. Sometimes we see the chickens. Both of them are girls and we feed the chickens and we get the eggs that the chickens have. When we are at the garden we also try things to eat and we investigate and sometimes when I feel upset I come to the garden. I love this garden.

We plant cool big watermelons to eat and make cool foods. We have houses for our flowers. We also have a place where we put our compost. And we have a place to play with sand and a place to do music and climb a little hill. There is a turtle in the pond. There is a place where you can get food for our animals and plants. Our garden is very very, very Healthy! All the animals and all the plants are super, super healthy.