A recent donation from Garver’s Norman, Oklahoma office will
help advance the mission of Earth Rebirth, a nonprofit organization that
aims to educate the community by creating sustainable food, energy, and water.
Earth Rebirth’s award-winning Garden Your Own Growth program
uses its various education programs to spark economic improvement within its
community by using the food it produces. The Norman-based organization now reaches 17 schools, 15 of which
are in Norman, including an aquaponics system at Norman High School that supplies
its cafeteria, a food pantry program, and a local farmer’s market. Garver
gladly supports the hands-on, STEM-based curriculum that allows up to 300
students maintain the gardens themselves.
The $1,500 GarverGives donation will support Earth
Rebirth as it increases the number of school gardens; helps purchase winterization
supplies for school gardens, and materials to construct hoop housing for raised
garden beds and in-ground garden beds while funding transport to each of the
17 partner schools.
“We wanted to work with Earth Rebirth because it represents
so many of Garver’s values by using innovative thinking to make an impact on
our community,” said Garver Project Engineer Amanda Way. “We’re excited that
this donation will allow them to continue the important contributions they’ve
already made.”
