INDIANAPOLIS -- In school, kids learn about math, history and science, but what about sustainable living values?
Big Green Learning Gardens is a new program that helps teach children where their food comes from.
At Wendell Phillips School 63, students get to use the garden and participate in interactive, hands-on learning.
The Learning Garden is part of Big Green, a national non-profit co-founded by Kimbal Musk, the brother of entrepreneur Elon Musk and the owner of two new Indianapolis restaurants.
The non-profit is based out of Boulder, Colorado and serves public schools across the country.
"We found out it would be no cost to us and we got all this, and we said where do we sign? said Paul Werth, the principal of Wendell Phillips School 63. "Big Green provides all the equipment, the architecture, the sculptures as well as all the training for our staff and our students and to come out on a regular basis."
By the end of the year, Big Green plans on being in 50 Indianapolis schools, and in 100 by 2020.
Big Green works with the schools so teachers can lead their own harvest and planting with their class. The teachers have the freedom of utilizing the garden at their own pace.
"This connection to real food, the opportunity to plant it, grow it, taste it, the experience with eating real food, helps students develop the feeling that this is what they deserve," Laura Henderson, a program manager at Big Green, said. "This is what they should expect -- that the food that they eat tastes good and nourishes their body and mind."
The goal of Big Green is to change the mindset in our youth, and changing the future for their lives. The program just came to the Indianapolis area and it's already in 31 schools.
If a school is interested in applying for a Learning Garden, click here. Right now, Big Green is only working with schools within Marion County.
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