Bell Gardens Elementary Celebrates ‘Our Veggie Place’ Garden
By EGP News Report
Bell Gardens Elementary School has become the fifth Montebello Unified School District (MUSD) school-based garden, a program headed by the Bell Gardens Intermediate School’s Environmental Garden Club (BGI EGC).
The garden inaugurated last month was funded by Tides and the California Endowment’s Community Clinics Initiative through Family Health Care Centers of Greater Los Angeles and the Campaign for a Healthier Bell Gardens.
As part of school-based gardening efforts, the garden will serve as a lab to foster student learning pertaining to nutrition, obesity, and diabetes education and will encourage its garden club to participate in quarterly student-run farmers markets at Bell Gardens Intermediate School where all five garden/environmental clubs vend their produce at low cost to the local community, according to BGI EGC.
Bell Gardens Elementary School students, faculty, and administration were joined by Mayor Pro Tem Sergio Infanzon, BGI Environmental Garden Club Directors John Garza and Eva Cupchoy, Family Health Care Centers of Greater Los Angeles CEO Dr. Felix Nuñez, and Campaign for a Healthier Bell Gardens Project Coordinator Lani Cupchoy for the ribbon cutting ceremony. (Photos courtesy of BGI Environmental Garden Club)
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January 5, 2012 Copyright © 2012 Eastern Group Publications, Inc.
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