Grow Your Dreams: A Garden for Next STEP Dreamers!

The Description

Next STEP is a collaboration between Tree Street Youth and Lewiston High School (Maine), focused on providing unique social-emotional support to teens, and a curriculum rooted in real world problem solving and social justice issues that affect our community. We are currently raising funds to support our own student-led indoor garden!

Students will partake in building and planting the garden, and tend to it by caring for seedling and adult plants. As plants mature, students will use the garden to make healthy dishes of their own! The purpose of our work will be to learn about human sustainability and the interaction between Earth’s biodiversity and natural feedback systems. Students will also tackle community issues and reach out to community partners to advocate for an increase in access to healthy food and address the environmental issues they care about.

Back Up Plan

If we do not reach our goal, the plan is to reach out to local community partners and see what they can provide as well. Our plan is to create two raised beds in order to grow beans, zucchini, carrots, herbs, flowers, and more, from seed to plant. 

Fundraiser Updates (1)

THANK YOU & LET's KEEP GOING!

December 21, 2020

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your amazing and lighting quick generosity! We have already raised enough to get started but our full budget is more than we initially posted. If you are still willing to support we greatly appreciate it. We could not do this work without you all though and we are so incredibly grateful. Happy holidays to all!

Best,

The Next STEP Team

Comments (2)

Alyssa Mitchell December 21, 2020

Thank you for all of the support in helping us create an indoor community garden within our school. It is amazing to see the support from all around, sharing a common belief for a shared future.

We are thrilled to see that we have raised over $500 in ONE DAY.
THANK YOU!

Although we have met our goal, please keep supporting us, all money donated will help us create a beautiful and fruitful garden for our children and for our future.

Tess Dempsey December 21, 2020

Keep makin’ the world a better place, Aly Mitch! xx

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About the Creator

I work and teach at Next STEP High, a collaborative school grounded in the mission and values of a local community organization (Tree Street Youth) and Lewiston High School in Maine. I teach math and entrepreneurship and also lead our community partnerships work. I am passionate about empowering students to solve the problems they care about in order to create positive change for our community.

Investments (19)

$25

Charlotte Gardiner

4 years ago

$100

Helen Weld

4 years ago

$25

Andrew Marshall

4 years ago

$25

Jane Davis

4 years ago

$50

Martha Smith

4 years ago

$10

Anonymous

4 years ago

$25

Anonymous

4 years ago

$50

Sydney Chapman

4 years ago

$20

Tess Dempsey

4 years ago

$25

Chelsea O’Brien

4 years ago

$50

Anonymous

4 years ago

$25

Andrew Bobrowiecki

4 years ago

$100

Marguerite Graham

4 years ago

$20

Jordan Grant

4 years ago

$50

Trevor Tierney

4 years ago

$25

Sarah Putnam

4 years ago

$25

Anonymous

4 years ago

$50

Jack Miller

4 years ago

$50

jed Mitchell

4 years ago