By Alex Irizarry Staff Writer On January 25th, Valley Ranch Elementary broke ground on a new school garden funded by a  7,000 dollar grant from the Coppell ISD Education Foundation. The Valley Ranch Elementary grant committee teamed with the Lowe’s in Lewisville and Real School Gardens to design and create the grant proposal for the new garden. Dubbed The Garden of Stars based on voting from the students, known as the Stars, the garden will feature eight raised vegetable gardens for each of the grade levels and the area will also be used to facilitate hands-projects and activities in support of the push towards the PBL (Project Based Learning) initiative. Also in the plans is a star flower garden that will represent the school as the Valley Ranch Stars and a native plant section that will feature Monarch butterflies for the students to interact with. The 7,000 dollar grant will pay for a majority of construction but there is also an ongoing fundraiser called buy-a-brick in an effort to raise a few extra dollars for the ambitious project. Primary construction for the garden began on January 26th and the committee and workers plan on beginning Spring planting sometime this March.