Top of the World garden gets special grant
Students Max Osbourne and Jordyn Flynn, from left, look over a patch of edible orange nasturtium flowers in the Top of the World garden. TOW was one of 20 gardens nationwide to receive a $10,000 grant from Seeds of Change. The school’s goal is to eventually build a greenhouse to provide more food to the Laguna Food Pantry.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)Students including Jordyn Flynn, right, share a laugh as they harvest lettuce in the Top of the World school garden. TOW received a $10,000 grant from Seeds of Change.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)First graders pull strawberries in the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)First graders pull and plant lettuce in the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)Jordyn Flynn separates lettuce leaves in the Top of the World garden’s south patch.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)Volunteer and mom Kelly Osbourne guides students in pulling lettuce in the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)A first grader plants lettuce in the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)A first grader plants lettuce in the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)The south Top of the World garden patch. TOW was one of 20 gardens nationwide to receive a $10,000 grant from Seeds of Change.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)A white cabbage butterfly lands on a leafy green in the Top of the World garden. TOW was one of 20 gardens nationwide to receive a $10,000 grant from Seeds of Change.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)California poppies grow in the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)Artichokes grow in the Top of the World garden. TOW was one of 20 gardens nationwide to receive a $10,000 grant from Seeds of Change.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)Student Max Osbourne brings a bucket of tools to the Top of the World garden.
(Don Leach / Daily Pilot)A humorous metal sign in the Top of the World garden’s south patch.
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