High School

Kalispell Public Schools, District No. 5 Flathead County

Kalispell Public Schools and FoodCorps Montana have partnered since 2011 in an effort to connect the approximately 6,000 students in District 5 with real food so they can grow up healthy. We work to achieve this goal through classroom nutrition lessons, garden-based education, and by building a Food Service Program centered on local procurement and healthy, from-scratch cooking.

District 5 currently hosts seven edible gardens and an orchard. Over the next few growing seasons, as the gardens expand, we hope to incorporate more of the harvest into the breakfast and lunch menu. 

Santa Fe Indian School

The School wishes to add raised beds more fruit trees and to improve upon the outdoor classroom.

Riverside Brookfield High School

Our school garden is nicknamed, The End Zone Garden, because it is located next to the high school's football field. This high visability location has encouraged community participation and this summer we will be working with local Girl Scout Troops, parents and teachers to mantain the garden. The produce is used within the school cafeteria and our students and teachers use the garden as a learning lab in Science, Math, English, Art, Foods and Nutrition, World Languages and Special Education.

Maplewood Richmond Heights High School

On the edge of St. Louis, Missouri, the Maplewood Righmond Heights kitchen garden grows food for the public school district's Seed to Table cafeteria program. High school interns work the garden 8 months of the year, overseen by a staff member. The potager-style kitchen garden features a tool shed with a living roof, a brick outdoor oven, and compost facilities. The growing space is comprised of 4 x14 foot vegetable beds, border beds, and a fruit area. We are looking forward to a great growing season!

ESYNOLA, Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School

The gardens at Clark Prep, tucked in the corridor between the two school buildings, are a colorful and peaceful oasis of flowers, vines, grasses, fruit trees and herbs. The gardens provide a quiet and beautiful place to sit, hear the rustling of leaves, smell orange blossoms in the spring, see monarch and fritillary butterflies foraging for nectar, and harvest and taste herbs like mint, rosemary, and lavender. Citrus trees and flowering vines checker the courtyard and offer students and teachers a chance to take in a moment of beauty and calm during their busy days.

James A. Foshay Learning Center

Our goals are to:.1. Educate elementary students about the importance of fruits and vegetables.2. Energize and excite them about produce.3. Introduce fresh produce into the diets of students and their families.4. Give schools access to a variety of resources and support to help achieve Goals 1-3.This grant allows us to maintain the upkeep of the gardens (youth volunteer incentives recruitment etc.) and instruct the Teaching Gardens curriculum (teacher stipends curricular costs etc.).

Hopewell High School

Our garden goal is to create a beautiful soup garden for the students and to share the bounty of the garden with two local Meals on Wheels organizations in the community. A secondary goal is to cultivate education while cultivating a school garden. Students will disabilities will be given an opportunity to plant a vegetable and herb garden. Students will research vegetables that they can grow to make their vegetable soup. Students will cultivate the land and plant vegetable and herb plants.

Goler Community Garden at the Downtown Health Plaza

  Our garden is located at a safety net health clinic has 65,000 patient visits a year.  The clinic serves Pediatric, Ob/Gyn and Adult Medicine patients.  The garden provides fresh produce to the clinics at no charge as well as providing learning opportunities for all the neighborhood.  There are regular workdays for all volunteers with special times for instruction on gardening.  Also there are cooking classes for all ages.

Greenbelt Middle School at the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom

Since the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens project sprouted in 2010, Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society (CHEARS) has established outdoor classroom gardens that are multi-generational, handicapped accessible, beautifully artistic, and are a great example showing how to grow local healthy food at home.

Gloucester High School

Students in the program plan, plant, harvest, and distribute fresh garden produce to the school kitchen, the culinary arts program, and The Open Door food pantry.

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