[sunspeck]

A biodiverse, edible forest garden in the center of an public high school. We are breaking ground with a team of students in about an hour.

This is (very) cool because it will expose adolescents to a variety of concepts, perspectives, and phenomena that are severely lacking from most urbanized places.

[conjecTech]

I hope you've had them watch some of the amazing permaculture videos/documentaries that are out there. I know those had a huge impact on me when I watched them back in high school. Great project, though. Definitely a very worthwhile feat.

[sunspeck]

Like the whiz-bang Lawton stuff? Any other good ones? Nice idea. I'm not much of a videographer, but I'm trying to document this project with some footage as well.

[jph]

A+ amazing project. Would love to know more, donate money if you need it, and tell people about your project.

[sunspeck]

Thanks. It was an exhausting and inspiring day, and your support builds the inspiration. I've slapped together a blog with some photos for now, and more info to come. http://growquad.tumblr.com/

I'll be documenting this project such that this sorta endeavor is more easily replicable at other secondary schools. Spreading the word would be awesome.

If you're able willing to donate, it would be well appreciated. We are totally unfunded at this point: minor expenses thus far have been covered out of pocket by the organizers (schoolteachers and gardeners). But we will need need flora, irrigation equipment, and building materials in the near future... I've put a WePay link on the blog.

You can find my email through my profile if you have any questions.

[toomuchtodo]

Have you thought about putting kits together to do this? And funding with Kickstarter?

[sunspeck]

If you're referring to physical/material kits, that'd be difficult, as the elements of life don't package well.

If you're talking about packaging informational materials, that's an interesting idea, as I've been developing much of the design and theory on a voluntary basis. I don't see this as a commercial project, but Kickstarter funding might be appropriate.

Interested to hear what you think such a kit would include?

Regardless, I'll be documenting the project at http://growquad.tumblr.com/

[toomuchtodo]

I was referring to the later. A friend of mine does community/guerrilla gardening in California, and is always looking for ways to scale it up.

Thank you for the site; I'll be following along!

[rossj]

Sounds great. Would love to hear more. Is there a blog/project-page anywhere?

[sunspeck]

I just slapped together http://growquad.tumblr.com/ with some photos from today's first work day. Will be posting more updates about design, implementation, and progress.