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People in the News

Thursday, October 30, 2025

People in the News

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Irving ISD students growing food, cultivating community

Students in the biology club at Barbara Cardwell Career Preparatory Center presented ten families with self-sustaining garden planters as part of a community outreach project. (Image: Irving ISD)
Students in the biology club at Barbara Cardwell Career Preparatory Center presented ten families with self-sustaining garden planters as part of a community outreach project. (Image: Irving ISD)

Students in the biology club at Irving ISD’s Barbara Cardwell Career Preparatory Center presented 10 families with self-sustaining garden planters as part of a community outreach project. The students wrote a letter requesting funds from Cardwell Principal Deeadra Brown then created the bucket gardens.

The bucket gardens were designed for apartment patios and should be producing vegetables by late summer.