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UPS & Feed USA--Not Just A Garden--The Best Garden Ever

My students need a Mantis tiller and accessories, a garden shed, and a greenhouse to make our Feed USA garden/classroom/lab the best garden ever.

  • $3,757 goal

This project expired on April 29, 2012.

This project expired on April 29, 2012.

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Mr. Cable Anson Middle School
Anson, TX Grades 6-8

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I grew up with a garden. One of my favorite memories is of eating home grown tomatoes, with salt and pepper, at the drive-in theater. I felt sorry for those kids that had to eat popcorn. But despite the fact my school is in a rural area, only a few of my students know where their food comes from.

Many of my students have limited life experience.

Quite a few haven't ever been outside of Texas, or for that matter more than 100 miles from our small town rural school. But when I engage them, they are the best students in the world. While we are a high-poverty school, with a large Hispanic and ESL (English as Second Language) population, we always achieve recognized or exemplary status according to the Texas Education Agency rating system. My kids are amazing. But they don't know where their food comes from. The primary crops raised in our area are cotton and maize, and only a few of my students have any connection to that part of our economy. I need to demonstrate to them where their food comes from, which means I must give them a hands-on way to grow plants in the classroom. All of the concepts of ecosystems, environmental science, pollution come down to a simple question. Will the plants grow?

My Project

Children spend much of their time in the school setting, so schools can play a large role in the adoption of healthy living habits. Our school superintendent has offered to provide chain-link fencing for our garden in order to provide a safe and secure site for an outdoor garden/classroom/laboratory. The greenhouse will enable us to extend the growing season of our outdoor garden. The garden shed will provide safe and secure storage for our tiller and other garden tools and equipment. The Mantis tiller will give us a light-weight, kid-friendly way to work the soil. All of these items will allow my students to learn about proper nutrition as advocated by Feed USA, and to learn to protect the environment as advocated by UPS. These materials will also help us complete our Disney Planet Challenge. The garden will be largely maintained by my 6th grade students, but will be available to more than 200 students grades 4th-8th. Help us garden together in the best garden ever!

I am a lifelong learner.

My goal is to instill the joy of lifelong learning into all of my students. If they experience even a small share of the sense of awe and wonder that I do every day while learning with them, I will have succeeded. The greenhouse, garden shed, and Mantis tiller for use in our school/community garden/lab/classroom that I've requested will help us achieve that success.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

200 students impacted
Mr. Cable Anson Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Anson, TX View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

200 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Snap & Grow by Palram Green 8 ft. x12 ft. Greenhouse • Home Depot $1,549.00 1 $1,549.00
Rubbermaid 7ft x 7ft x 7ft Roughneck Resin Storage Building • Lowes.com $649.00 1 $649.00
Mantis Deluxe 9" Tiller/Cultivator 4-Cycle powered by Honda • Mantis Garden Tools $499.00 1 $499.00
TriCam Plastic Garden Dump Cart • Home Depot $79.97 1 $79.97
Handy Item Kit 4-Cycle Tiller • Mantis.com $32.95 2 $65.90
Wheel Set • Mantis.com $59.95 1 $59.95
Element 5/8" x 100' Pure & Simple Element Lead Free Garden Hose Neverkink Commercial Duty Hose • Home Depot $49.97 1 $49.97
Tiller Companion Kit • Mantis.com $49.95 1 $49.95
Tiller Tune-Up Kit – Deluxe 4-Cycle • Mantis.com $24.99 1 $24.99
No-Spill® CARB Gas Can 1¼ Gallon • Mantis.com $19.95 1 $19.95

Materials cost

$3,047.68

Vendor shipping charges

 $65.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$45.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$3,193.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$563.54

Total project goal

$3,756.94

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

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