University lab reaches 10 years helping create, aid school gardens, looking to branch out initiatives

University lab reaches 10 years helping create, aid school gardens, looking to branch out initiatives

This April marks 10 years since the EdEN Lab, formally known as TX Sprouts, began its research initiative, which helps build and maintain gardens for elementary schools.  Jaime Davis, principal investigator for the EdEN Lab, previously worked with existing gardens in Los Angeles in 2007 and later built the program’s first gardens there in 2012. The program has since expanded to 75 schools over six states. In 2015, the National Institutes of Heal…