Sowing Seeds program awarded $2,000 grant

By Edward Stoner

VAIL — Eagle Valley Elementary School students will get a head start on a healthy spring as the Youth Foundation’s Sowing Seeds program was recently tabbed as the recipient of a $2,000 School Garden Grant from the Whole Kids Foundation. Created in partnership with FoodCorps, the School Garden Grant program provides monetary grants to primary or secondary schools, as well as nonprofit groups to support a new or existing edible garden on school grounds.‘KEY TO SUCCESS’“We are very excited to have been selected as a recipient of this School Garden Grant,” said Melisa Rewold-Thuon, vice president of education for the …

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