Global Gardens
Global Gardens is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering students and communities through hands on-science education. The organization believes helping students create a garden is a way to not only assist them in learning about science, health and the environment but also challenge them to become caring, forward thinking and confident individuals. 
Global Gardens is committed to planting seeds of change!
The program is a voluntary, after-school program at Rosa Parks in which two groups of students meet on a weekly basis after school to learn about the environment and gardens and apply what they have learned to a real garden. On Fridays, the students from the groups can invite family members and friends to view their plot and see its progress.
QuikTrip, whose headquarters are adjacent to the school property line, has helped Rosa Parks spruce up the garden over the past few years a "day of caring" in September.
Goals
- Develop science-based community garden spaces, where the community has ownership of the implementation, progress, and maintenance of the garden.
- Encourage the use of the garden as a central gathering and meeting place for the community.
- Teach an all-encompassing curriculum that connects the garden with other disciplines and allows students to connect the learning in the garden to both school learning and real life experiences.
- Establish local, national, and international connections with students through the Internet, based on growing and eating food, and various cultural practices involving plants.
News Articles
- More earth oven images
- White House Cookbook features Global Gardens kids
- Commercial begins airing nationwide
- Crew films national comemrcial at Rosa Parks
- QT Day of Caring 2009
- QuikTrip remakes Global Gardens at Rosa Parks - pictures below
- Garden talk
- Students prepare for new garden season
- Students get their hands dirty!
