Best friends planting together LTE Garden
Beautification
Cultivate Planting Day
Cultivate Immokalee students worked with UF Master Gardeners to plant vegetables and flowers. Today they learned the importance of proper labeling.
Lake Trafford Elementary School Best Friends Garden
We would like to invite best friends in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades to join us in building a a best friends garden club at Lake Trafford Elementary. The focus is on improving the current garden and learning how to garden.
For more information please get in contact with Mr. Cuccia
Meetings 8AM till 9:30AM on the following Saturdays
Dec.15th
Jan.26th
Feb.23rd
Mar.23rd
Apr.20th
May.25th
iGrow Roberts Goodwill Senior Center Garden 2017
On June 21, 2017 Cultivate Immokalee was able to visit the center. During the visit, Mrs. Kelly Stevenson- Crews students (with disabilities) were extremely helpful with completing an instructional session on Earth-boxes. Her student Billy translated the information in Creole, while Katrina was showing some of the seniors where the place the seeds in the Earth Box as well as teaching them how to assemble the Earth Box. Seniors at the center are usually sitting and not really doing a lot of physical activity to stimulate their fine motors skills. With the help of Earth-boxes, seniors become jubilant and joyful when they see new life growing in their garden. Their joy is greater when they know they have planted the garden. With no weeding, hoeing, or digging, Earth-boxes gardening makes it possible for seniors to plant their gardens. Currently,Cultivate Immokalee students continue working with the center in order to improve the lives of seniors that visit the center.
RCMA Garden Site
RCMA Early Childhood Garden Outline
In 2016 1By1 and the RCMA Early Childhood project purchased 15 boxes to distribute to 5 sites in Immokalee as a pilot project to encourage their providers to grow nutritional plants and in the process share their knowledge with their neighbors. Currently, the RCMA uses Earth-boxes as a teaching tool and family project to grow vegetables share recipes and focus on nutrition. With assistance from Cultivate Immokalee initiative, students help train and provide technical assistance to the center’s teachers and staff. This include help in making the boxes, selecting the proper soil, fertilizer and plants. For those of us in Cultivate Immokalee, it is our hope to leverage Earth-box projects with RCMA and school projects to cover all participating neighborhoods in Immokalee by 2019.
