Fun & fundraising ideas

	Spring Love Your School Yard Day: the second Saturday in March works well.
	Annual plant sale: the first Saturday in May works well. Sample plant sale donation letter
	Harvest festival: Held during early October, featuring a vegetable sculpture contest, live music, cider pressing...
	Fall Love Your School Yard Day: a Saturday morning in October or November.
	NEW! Garden calendar: See what Anne has created! New idea for the 2009/2010 school year.
	Planting guide: New idea for the 2009/2010 school year.
	Recipes: New idea for the 2009/2010 school year.

Low-hanging fruit

Develop a planting plan/calendar that:

	Makes best use of the various Roosevelt Gardens for growing Food Bank materials and
	Provides age-appropriate gardening opportunities for Roosevelt students.

	Help develop a volunteer program for students (who must be supervised) to do weekly pick up of campus garbage, or weeding, or other useful in-classroom of after school work for teachers or staff.
	Create a poster explaining our compost system that would be hung up by the compost bins to ensure that random composting activities follow basic compost system guidelines.
	Develop a monthly garden activities calendar bulletin board in the main Roosevelt entry hall.
	Develop simple recipes to go to the Food Bank with the harvested vegetables (changing recipes relative to what is harvested each week or month).  This is something that would be fun for kids to come up with.

Big ideas

	Develop a proposal to sell the garden curriculum idea to Roosevelt staff. We want to make their job easier by providing a curriculum that does not add to their work hours and still meets their required curriculum goals.  Couch this idea in the larger context of community service, environmental education, interdisciplinary learning, and the WA Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs).
	Propose that the entire school undertake "Community Service" as a year-long project, during which producing and delivering food to the Thurston County Food Bank is only one of several service projects.
	Help develop a REAP (after school Roosevelt Enrichment Activities Program) class that would provide students with opportunities to grow plants from seed, nurture the plants until they are strong enough to be transplanted into the outdoor garden beds, and water and weed the plants until they are ready for harvest, including preparation for delivery to the Food Bank.
	Help develop lesson plans, handouts, and schedules so each classroom would have opportunities to grow plants from seed, nurture the plants until they are strong enough to be transplanted into the outdoor garden beds, and water and weed the plants until they are ready for harvest, including preparation for delivery to the Food Bank.
	Research and report on how elementary students can volunteer time to earn service learning credit. (This program is already established for middle- and high-school students.)
	Research how we can work with groundskeeping staff and the OSD administration to unify and support the community's efforts to keep pesticides out of school yards. This may include developing a plan to improve landscaping maintenance such as using mulch rather than herbicides to keep weeds down, pulling weeds by hand, and minimizing weed seed banks by timely mowing.
	Research and report on how other schools have developed their garden-based curricula: how they pay for it, how they coordinate with teachers, how they meet district curriculum standards… Attend GRuB's School Gardeners' Summit on March 30, 2010.
	Volunteer to teach students about gardening within the Roosevelt curriculum (as is modeled in the Lincoln intern program).
	Organize summer volunteers (Garden Stewards – could be Roosevelt families or community volunteers) for weeding, watering, harvesting and delivery to Food Banks (when school is not open and students are not present).
	Help organize and run the Spring Plant Sale.