Garden Project
Update
August 2005
Once again this summer, the Los Alamitos garden has been producing fresh
food for the Second Harvest Food back. The Leibscher family combine our bean
harvest with a donation from the Hoy/Perez family. 14 pounds of food went to
families who need it.
For more information on how you can donate produce from your home garden you
can request a starter kit at:
Good Neighbor Gardens
San Jose Mercury News
750 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA. 95190
Phone (408) 920-5241 EMAIL
features@mercurynews.com.
September 2004
Our very first harvest helped the Second Harvest Food Bank.
Many families worked over the summer to keep our garden in tip-top
shape. In early September the Liebscher family delivered 30 pounds of fresh
yellow and red tomatoes to the Food Bank on behalf of Los Alamitos.
Our garden is a prime example of the rich tradition of volunteerism at Los
Alamitos. The SJUSD grounds crew kindly took time to level our ground and
install professional grade irrigation. Subsequently, over 40 students and
parents gathered one Saturday morning to stack 1200 bricks into a beautiful
and functional garden. The District crew returned to help us move the tons of
soil and gravel that finished off the area. Designed and planned Los Alamitos
parents, Sherri Laidlaw & Julie Herndon, the garden will serve as a living
science project for years to come.
Vegetables harvested from the lab will be donated to the Second Harvest Food
Bank through their “Plant a Row” program. Some of the crop is consumed by the
small army of squirrels that calls “Los Alamitos” home.
In addition to the hours of labor, the garden could not have been created with
the financial help and consideration of a variety of organizations: the
Synopsys Outreach-Foundation,
Los Alamitos PTA & SMART Foundation,
GO SERV , City of
San Jose CAP Grants, San Jose Beautiful, the
Toshiba Foundation,
Almaden Valley Nursery and
Yamagami Nursery of Cupertino.
