Photos: Volunteering at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School garden

A day laborer from the Carecen Day Labor Center pours fertilizer for the student garden at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24.

Day laborers from the Carecen Day Labor Center dig up grass for a new garden at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24.

From left to right, second-graders Allyson Garcia, 7, Jamie Sales, 7, Alexa Mendez, 8, and Kaylee Nu-ez, 8, examine a plot in the school garden at Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24.

Day laborers from the Carecen Day Labor Center and the Idepsca Labor Center pick out shovels and other tools to work on the garden at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24.

A bee lands on a flower as day laborers dig up grass in the school garden at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24.

Maribel Hernandez, center, pauses as a colleague digs up grass to clear space for the garden at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24.

Nelson Mendoza, right, digs up grass alongside fellow day laborers from the Carecen Day Labor Center at Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 24. Mendoza and his colleagues were helping students add new plantings to the garden.