By Daily Press staff
The local school district will hold a massive garage sale this weekend to benefit kids who will watch their gardens grow.
The “Holiday Decor Benefit Garage Sale” to benefit the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District school garden program will be held on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Proceeds of the sale will go to purchase educational materials for teachers that link gardening to the curriculum, and plants and garden materials for classroom beds throughout the district.
Brand new and used Halloween and Christmas decor will be on sale. Students in Santa Monica and Malibu schools grow their own fresh vegetables to augment the locally grown farmers’ market produce on the salad bars in their school lunch programs. The garage sale — without the garage — will raise funds to help keep the farmers’ market salad bar school garden program self sufficient.
The sale will be held at John Adams Middle School, 2425 16th St.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 22, 2004. Read the original PDF.