MES grows interest in science and nutrition
A group of 14 students at Mammoth Elementary School have spent this winter growing their own vegetables and herbs in the MES Library with a hydroponic tower garden.
The newest after school enrichment program to be offered to kids combines science, nutrition, and a healthy dose of fun. Mammoth’s Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) hopes to expand the project to equip each MES classroom with its own tower garden next year.
“It not only teaches gardening and nutrition but science, technology and healthy living,” said Jena Wight, a member of Mammoth’s PTO and the force behind the idea.
Wight and her family moved to Mammoth almost two years ago from Redondo Beach, where her daughters’ school had a similar gardening program, albeit in a traditional soil bed.
