Working together with Lebanon Elementary Schools 5^th grade class we had a successful classroom garden. I was approached at the end of the school year last year by a teacher with the need of some help with her classroom garden. She just wanted some grow lights to use for the garden but then we developed a plan to grow a few different types of vegetables and herbs in the classroom for her students to watch and learn from. Her main problem with the garden when I started helping was that the plants she had previously tried to grow just wouldn’t thrive in the classroom. She has attempting to grow plants that didn’t thrive well in an indoor setting. When we started working together we decided to go with lettuce, cilantro, and mint in the garden. Each of these plants should have grown good in an indoor setting, much better than other plants such as tomatoes. After taking supplies to the classroom, students helped me prepare the indoor raised bed with soil then proceeded to help plant the seeds and set the lights. I also taught a lesson to the students about what soil is made up of by using wow butter, brown sugar, pretzels, gummy worms, marshmallows, and M&M’s. This helped the students remember that the soil is made up of many different components by tying the lesson to food. After several weeks of growing the students were able to see their success pay off by using their cilantro to make salsa and being able to taste fresh lettuce from their own garden. The skills learned from this lesson of being able to plant and tend to a garden will be life skills they can use for the rest of their life and always have good nutritious food.