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Garden Owner Teams Up with Religious School for Garden Project

Rob Burke, who installed a community garden on his car wash's property last year, recently helped students at Temple Beth Tikvah's Religious School learn about gardening and sustainability.

Students at Temple Beth Tikvah's Religious School are learning about sustainability thanks to a special project being run with Rob Burke.

Burke dropped by the school recently and helped students plant seeds in trays. Students will water and care for the seeds. When the plants grow big enough, the students will bring them to Burke's community garden. 

"We're showing the kids that it doesn't take much to help others," said Ellen Golden, principal of the school. "I'm always trying to find ways of engaging the studetns and having them learn in a very hands-on way."

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Burke, who opened the garden at his business, Wayne Auto Spa, last year, will sell the vegetables from the plants. Burke donates money to charity. He also has more than a dozen chickens on the property and has bees now too.

"For me, this is about everything from nutrition and health to science to how we approach caring for the environment we live in," Burke said. "This is all about community building. All the other things that fit into this all fall into the larger unbrella of community building."

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