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‘Raising student awareness”: Westwood Elementary’s vegetable garden grows its lessons

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Fifth-grade students at Westwood Elementary School work in a garden box for the school’s vegetable garden. Pictured are (from left) Angeli Martinez, Brayden Fay, Kimberly Thomas, and Chase Rodriguez. (Courtesy photo)

Every Westwood Elementary grade now has a raised bed garden of its own on the campus. First-grade teacher Jessica Backus and fifth-grade dual-language teacher Kathy Lacey-Anderson received a District 200 […]

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