High School

Hilton Head Preparatory School

Hilton Head Prep recently integrated HI-5-a health initiative that addresses: (1) Community Outreach, (2) Personal & Physical Development, (3) Joy & Spiritual Wellness, (4) Relationships and (5) Food & Nutrition. HI-5 is gaining great momentum with the students, parents and faculty and after polling each group, a garden project received the most excitement. This grant would enable us to integrate HI-5 into our after school program (Prep Plus), which would like to be more than homework and playground time but interactive with cooking and gardening, and into the curriculum.

Lake Mead Christian Academy

The goal of planting and maintaining an on-site garden is two-fold. The first being, the school would like to take active steps in taking better care of our students, who essentially are our future leaders. Not only would we use the produce for the school cafeteria but to also donate fresh food to local resource centers who have partnered with us.

Cordova High School

Our goal is to purchase a greenhouse for our students. The students will grow seedlings in the greenhouse and transplant them to the garden beds at school as well as take them home to grow in their own family gardens. The students will gain a firsthand experience with the "Farm to Fork" message because they will have an opportunity to grow seedlings, transplant and then harvest their own crops. We will be incorporating the value of eating nutritious meals into our everyday lives.

Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm

Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm (SWSF) is a not-for-profit, preschool through 12th grade school in Sonoma County, California. We are one of the only schools in the U.S. with a working Biodynamic farm that is integrated into the curriculum (preK-12). At the farm, students have the opportunity to learn many basic skills that are rapidly becoming lost in today's industrialized society.

Eastdale Collegiate Institute

FoodShare has successfully transformed a 16,000sq ft school rooftop at Eastdale CI into a vibrant, living educational farm called the School Grown Rooftop. The Rooftop features over 450 edible planters, 100 mushroom logs, a dwarf fruiting orchard, and greenhouse, providing an opportunity to awaken the senses of students from JK – Gr 12 with fragrant aromas and fresh flavours direct from the garden. We need your help revitalizing the adjacent School Grown Classroom into a welcoming space that will inspire learners of all ages with the joys of harvesting, cooking and tasting.

Hope Sp Ed Center (Hope High School)

The goal of Hope High's garden revitalization project is to transform the current Hope Garden into a sustainable working garden which will continue to produce food, curriculum and arts materials for a collaborative multi-discipline nutrition, agricultural, horticultural therapy, and arts infused program which began in the Winter quarter 2014.

Kanu o ka Aina

Our garden program is called: “Huli ka Lima i Lalo” which in Hawaiian, means: “to turn the hands downward and be productive.” Our garden program is currently run and supervised completely by parent volunteers and is funded by donations for tools, materials, plants and equipment. If awarded this grant, these funds would help to sustain our garden by allowing us to purchase much needed equipment such as: new tires for wheel-barrows, hand tools, water hoses, watering cans, and mulch.

Keith Bovenschen School

My school is a center program for students ages 3-26 with moderate to severe disabilities. Three years ago we started the Bovenshen Community Garden. Our students benefit from learning about proper nutrition through real life experience and gain great work skills learning about a career in which they can possibly pursue in the future.

Baraboo High School

Many of my students don’t take the time to think about what is in the food they choose to eat or where their food comes from. As we’ve been studying the industrial and local food systems, students have been comparing processed foods to fresh ingredient recipes. A few of the “fresh” ingredients have been purchased at the farmer’s market, while most of them have been purchased at the local grocery store. It would be amazing if students could go out to the garden and pick their produce of choice for lab--to know exactly where the food came from.

Sidney Lanier High School

The Lanier Garden motto is “Putting the Culture back in Agriculture.” This is a multifaceted project that brings together a cross-section of the 65 countries represented at the school and community around the production of healthy food close to home. Participants save money and connect with neighbors. Students led the initial funding drive and garden development and continue to learn in and support the garden through their FFA classes, including welding, construction, soil studies, and vegetable growing in 5 garden plots.

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