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Sewickley Academy Awarded Whole Kids Grant for Secret Garden

The grant will support planting fruit trees, building more garden beds, and purchasing rain barrels and other necessities.

Sewickley Academy was recently awarded a $2,000 grant for its Secret Garden through the Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant Project.

Funds from the grant will support planting two fruit trees, building five more garden beds, and purchasing two rain barrels and gutters for the garden shed to feed water into the barrels.

The money will also support five work benches or picnic tables to allow the Secret Garden to become a true outdoor classroom and community center.

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“Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant Project is thrilled to offer Sewickley Academy a School Garden Grant to support its garden project,” said Annie Nelson, marketing team lead from Whole Foods Market in Wexford. “The Secret Garden exemplifies a viable, sustainable, and well-supported garden that, most importantly, is able to be integrated into student’s learning for years to come.”

Whole Foods Market has long had a concern about the growing rate of obesity in America, and about children's obesity in particular.

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In 2010, Whole Foods created the Whole Kids Foundation, whose mission is to improve children's nutrition and wellness with the goal of ending the childhood obesity epidemic. The program enables schools to help revive children's relationships with food through the power of gardening.

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