Teacher Carla Marshall longed for a classroom without walls and so she created the Green Classroom, an organic gardening project at South Austin's Becker Elementary. The presidential award-winning project offers elementary school children a completely integrated learning situation that reinforces all their work in regular classes and builds self-esteem in the process. The kids learn math and science by making a compost cake, write songs and poems about their gardens, and gain marketing experience by selling their organic produce in the Whole Foods Markets. Now, if the cafeteria could just cook the produce grown in the garden, that really would be an accomplishment!
