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Mrs. Nelen from Du Bois PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Gardening Books for Home Ec

Help me give my students gardening books for their home economics classroom library.

  • $203 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

My students currently have classes on baking and cooking, as well as my life skill students. My goal with my classroom library is to offer a variety of content for all of Home Economics above and beyond what we cover in class. This includes cookbooks, but also how-to books on finances, design, and sewing.

A part of students knowing how to cook food is also connecting food to the farm.

For this project, I am seeing gardening books to add to our Home Economics classroom library. These books are available to students to browse during spare time in class and to sign out to take home.

Mrs. Nelen
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers • Amazon Business $20.49 1 $20.49
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide (Creative Homeowner) Fences, Chicken Coops, Sheds, Gardening, and More for Becoming Self-Sufficient • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects - NEW Solutions - GROW Vegetables Anywhere (Volume 9) (All New Square Foot Gardening, 9) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Old Farmer's Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (Old Farmer's Almanac (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Container Gardening For Beginners: A Guide to Growing Your Own Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Edible Flowers • Amazon Business $12.25 1 $12.25
Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Sustain a Thriving Garden • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49

Materials cost

$139.93

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$172.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.36

Total project goal

$202.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$202.39

2 Donors

-$101.20

Donations toward project cost

-$86.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.18

match offer

-$101.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$86.01

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.18

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$0.00

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