Granny's Garden School

Finance Committee Budet Report
Sweetpotato Patch
Description of program: The Kroger Company donates enough sweetpotatoes for each first grader to have their own.  They root the sweetpotates as part of  Science Day  (last week in April).  They plant the potatoes in the sweetpotato patch the week following Mother's Day.  In the fall, the now   second graders, harvest the sweet potatoes and share them with the school for their harvest parties. 

Purpose: Introduce first graders to roots and shoots 
 
Personnel Cost
Director: 
Other Staff: Garden  Manager- 6 hours associated with preparing area for planting and assisting non-class garden classes with planting.
Project Coordinator:   3 hrs x $10 = $50 + 7 hrs. on science day
Volunteers: 2 x 5 hours on Science day.  Actual planting and havesting take place as part of class garden time.
Other:
Material Cost
350 sweet potatoes x .50 = $175
350 clear plastic 16 ounce cups x .02 = $7.00
2 boxes of 1000 toothpicks x $1.00 = $2
Sharpie Markers for drawing faces 2 classes at a time, we need four boxes..
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