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Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Buena Vista Enhanced Option Elementary School leaders, students and community recently celebrated the opening of a new outdoor classroom and garden.
The garden, named the Buena Vista Living Learning Lab, was cultivated from a project known as CHAMP’s Gardens, a nearly decade-long partnership between Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Metro Nashville Public Schools to improve the health and well-being of children through advocacy, research, education and community-based interventions.
Funding for the garden was provided by a grant from the Junior League of Nashville through the CHAMP’s Gardens program.