In 2011, Kimbal Musk, co-founder of the Kitchen (and brother of tech giant Elon Musk), decided it wasn’t enough serving real, local food at his family of restaurants. So he launched the Kitchen Community nonprofit with the goal of "empower[ing] kids and their families to build real food communities from the ground up."

In practice, what that means is creating learning gardens — a garden as an outdoor classroom — in underserved, low-income schools across the country. Since the first opened in Denver in 2011, 450 learning gardens have been built across the country. Colorado, though, has begun lagging behind. The state currently has 55 learning gardens; Chicago has 150. But that will soon change: Musk recently announced the Colorado 100 Fund, a $2.5 million initiative to increase the number of Centennial State learning gardens to 100 (in other words, adding 45 more) by the end of 2020.

Read the full article about Kimbal Musk's effort to create school gardens by Daliah Singer at 5280: Denver's Mile High Magazine.