Learn and Grow
One Dallas-area school could get free garden from Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market will work in 24 cities to provide hands-on gardening and nutrition information for school kids.
Sprouts Farmers Market is seeking submissions from Dallas schools to score their own free garden.
The Arizona-based grocery chain is offering to build school gardens in 24 cities across the U.S., one per city, and is inviting community members to nominate their favorite school.
Only schools located in states where Sprouts has stores will be considered.
The program is part of their initiative to get kids involved in healthy food, including growing vegetables at school and then learning how to prepare them in cooking classes.
The application is available to parents, teachers, faculty, or any adult with a personal connection to their nominee, whether that’s a personal relationship or just status as a neighbor.
Criteria include:
- Familiarity with the school’s current practices
- Merit: Why does the school deserve a garden
- A commitment to outdoor learning
- Identification of a caretaker who can oversee and maintain the garden
The deadline to apply is April 26, at sprouts.com.
They'll announce winners in July, then organize a volunteer day to build the gardens in each city on Saturday, September 16.
Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation has been pursuing this goal at schools and via community grants since 2015. The resulting programs have taught more than 1.5 million kids about gardening, and 900,000 in schools about nutrition.
There are currently 27 Sprouts locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area including four recent openings within the past year at Las Colinas, Grand Prairie, Dallas / Hillside Village, and Dallas Trinity Mills.
