Service For Peace has guided a select group of 7 middle school students in the planting and development of an urban organic garden in the backyard of their school, the Yvonne Learning Center.

After a semester long of researching, learning, and participating in mini projects at their organic garden, the 7 students of the Yvonne Learning Center will culminate their service-learning garden project on Global Youth Service Day. The students will lead their fellow classmates in teaching them about the garden: showing them how to plant seeds, how to maintain/care for seeds once planted, demonstrate how the vegetables & herbs could be used, etc. Outside volunteers are invited to participate in a street clean-up in the Little Haiti neighborhood where the school resides.

The garden was first planted on 2009 MLK Day by YLC students with the help and donations of Log Cabin Nursery (Miami Beach) and the individuals of Sunrise Group. Service For Peace and young adults that participated in the first project have continued to educate and help the students in weekly mini-projects at the garden (i.e. Building a border around the garden, manuring, composting, etc).

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