We invite you to help third graders tell their moms about watering plants with rain, kindergarteners laugh at hovering hummingbirds, and teachers walk their students to the quiet of the Howell Elementary courtyard to learn about conserving and sustaining in the Sonoran Desert.
If we reach 50 shirts sold we will earn $376. All funds raised will go directly towards Seeds Community Center.
Shirts will be delivered approximately 2 weeks after the close date.
THE SEEDS STORY
In 2011, volunteers from Seeds Community Center, a faith-based non-profit organization, joined with students and staff from Peter Howell Elementary in Tucson, Arizona to start a school garden where kids can do all kinds of amazing things that kids should be able to do: dig in dirt, spend time under shade and sun and sky, watch seeds become stems, watch stems sprout flowers and fruit and vegetables, and know that they helped that happen.
Seeds volunteers teamed up with the kids at Howell to plant flower beds full of snapdragons, installed and refurbished raised planting beds for vegetables (lettuce, radishes, peas, chard, kale, carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes), added a Woolly Pocket garden (modular pockets for vertical planting to maximize space), received a seed grant from fellow local non-profit Native Seeds/SEARCH to plant a Three Sisters garden (squash, corn, and beans), and collaborated with Watershed Management Group to install a cistern in Howell Elementary's courtyard to collect rain to supply the school garden with water.
The goal of all this planting, harvesting, and partnering is not just to create more vegetable eaters. Seeds wants to support the families and schools that make up our community, make school a little bit more amazing by bringing green plants and hopefully some butterflies around, and to love Tucson with the kind of love that Jesus shows people (the kind that grows and can be re-planted and given away for free and enjoyed because it is good).
THESE SHIRTS WILL HELP IN SO MANY WAYS
The funds raised through this campaign will go towards the next Seeds School Garden project, a Native Habitat Rain Garden that will give students the opportunity to learn about how desert plants adapt to living in harsh, dry conditions, how an ecosystem functions sustainably, and the importance of conserving and harvesting water, a valuable resource here in the Sonoran Desert. The Native Habitat Rain Garden will bring Wright's Bee Bush, Desert Pipevine, Native Fairy Duster, Desert Hackberry, Desert Clematis, Baby Bonnets, Rhyolite Bush, Indigo Bush, Desert Lavender, Samara Vine, Desert Senna, Trixis, and Goodding's Verbena to the Seeds School Garden at Peter Howell Elementary.
The shirts purchased will support local people supporting local people. They will be a reminder that we can invest in our community in creative ways. Thanks to all the volunteers, donors, students, teachers, administrators, parents, and neighbors who have made the Seeds School Garden a success so far, and thank you for considering supporting us as we keep planting and digging.
THANKS, WATER BOTTLES!
These Seeds shirts are Anvil Sustainable tees. Somehow, someone figured out how to turn recycled water bottles into t-shirts. Even the material of your Seeds shirt is helpful to the environment.
SHIRT PICKUP
When our fundraiser wraps up, every Seeds shirt will ship to us in the middle of October and be available for pickup at the Seeds room at Second Mile (www.secondmi.org) gatherings at 22nd Street Baptist Church in Tucson. Come visit with Carol and Tenney and snag your shirt around 3:30 (or before the gathering gets started at 4:00).
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