If you are located in Ventura, Santa Barbara, or West Los Angeles County, California, and would like a custom-built self-watering container garden, but don’t have the time to put it together yourself, we are making ourselves available to collect the recycled pieces, pre-cut the parts, and deliver your container garden to you using proper social distancing measures and safety equipment.
Upon arriving at your location with the containers, soil, live plants, seeds, earthworms, and beneficial nematodes, we’ll assemble and fill the containers on site. We can leave them safely in the front of your location and you can move them around to your liking once we have left. We can help you place them where you want them so long as proper social distancing methods are achievable. Once they are where you want them, you can fill the reservoirs with water and off you go!
Sometimes, just getting a gardening project started seems so daunting that it’s hard to make it happen. But, once it’s started, especially with self-watering containers, the work is fairly minimal to keep it going, but the rewards are well worth it. Compared to other methods of gardening, the cost-savings in water alone make the initial investment in getting things started minimal by comparison.
This is a fundraising effort to help cover the costs of our non-profit food security and sustainable living curriculum. Most of the per-container fee goes to the costs of building your garden; what is left over goes back to Learn & Grow to cover the costs of publishing our instructional materials online, operating our experimental teaching garden, and expanding our curriculum to include other aspects of living sustainably.
The investment you make to get started will pay for itself several times over the span of years that you grow food in the containers we provide. You will have healthy, organically grown garden-to-table food that you can take with you if you ever need to relocate, and which can moved around to meet changing lighting needs throughout the year as the seasons change, conserves water, keeps plastics out of landfills, reduces your independence on the commercialized food supply, requires no open ground for growing, and can be scaled to fit in oddly shaped and/or small spaces.
Once you have placed your order, we will contact you to find out what you want planted in your containers and schedule delivery. If you have any questions about your order, you can email us at info@kps4parents.org or call us at (805) 292-2003. You can also DM us from our Instagram account and Facebook page.
The next big dream: The Learn & Grow Tiny House!
Our next big undertaking is to have a tiny house built to our design specifications for the purpose of providing instruction regarding sustainable living. This will include grey water recapturing for the garden, rainwater collection for in-home and garden use, alternative energies, and sustainable building methods and materials.
We will be incorporating the Learn & Grow self-watering container gardening and laying hen care instruction with the new sustainable living instruction for our online and in-person learners. In the future, our tiny house will be part of the Learn & Grow instruction, along with the garden and our laying hens. We have eventual plans to add bees for honey and goats for dairy.
We have recently formed a new non-profit organization, the Institute for Educational Equity, Inc. (IEEI), of which the Learn & Grow Educational Series is now a division. We are now incorporated in the State of California and are in the process of assembling and submitting our application to the IRS for our 501(c)(3) status.
Your financial support will help us cover the professional services costs and filing fees to get our paperwork in order, purchase equipment and materials for our instructional programs, create new online and in-person (eventually, once this whole COVID-19 mess is over and we can safely do so) instruction, and cover the rent and fees associated with the space currently occupied by our experimental teaching garden.
If you don’t need our help to start your own container garden or your outside our local area, but still want to help out, you can always donate to us at https://paypal.me/learnandgrow.