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Perhaps you could get a school-wide garden initiative. By doing so, the work and planning can be split between grades and is much easier to manage. I have been at schools where this is accomplished and I think it helps to build a sense of community throughout the school as a whole since all are working together to maintain the garden. You could have the different grades split the work (building, planting, watering, maintaining, etc.), or various grades could rotate jobs. Also, I think it would be important that the students have the most say possible; about how the garden is built, what plants should be used, etc. This gives students more responsibility and ownership of their garden. The schools I have seen gardens at have used their produce in lunches, and the students always seem so proud when it is announced that the green beans in their lunch that day were from the garden that they helped create and maintain.
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