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The Biodiversity Project
is a school-based, interdisciplinary gardening and community service activity. We were formed in 1995 with a grant from the school
administration here at McQuaid
Jesuit High School
in Rochester, New York.
For the past ten years we have grown rare and endangered varieties of open-pollinated vegetables and fruits, and have donated more than three tons of fresh, organically-grown produce to local food banks here in Rochester. We received a grant from the Phillips Environmental Partnership in 1996 to expand and improve our garden sites, one located at school in Brighton, New York and the other in Greece, New York (both suburbs of Rochester). In 2003 we received a grant from Sam's Club to continue and advance our work. We have also developed an interdisciplinary high-school curriculum centered on our garden and on issues of ecology which was added to McQuaid's curriculum in the Fall of 2001 as an upper class elective course. During these past ten years we have affiliated ourselves with several local and national groups engaged in seed preservation and garden-centered education, including
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OUR STAFF:
Ms. Annette Galvano Moderator
Mr. Robert Kidera Moderator
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