Students will meet real community food-access partners, compare low-cost food choices, gather firsthand user evidence about how families get healthy food, and create a simple empathy artifact with quotes, drawings, and observations that will guide the next phase of garden planning.

Students will sort and synthesize what they learned from community users, identify shared needs about healthy food access and plant growing conditions, and turn that evidence into a child-friendly problem definition that can guide garden ideas in the next phase.

Students will generate many possible ways to help families access healthy food through the school garden, compare ideas using real community needs, and create a concept sketch that can guide prototyping.

Students will test their garden explanations and plant posters with community users, revise their communication using feedback, and present the class garden blueprint and individual plant posters during a public Garden Walk that explains how the garden supports healthy food access.