High School

Messalonskee High School

The goal of the Messalonskee High School (MHS) Garden Greenhouse Project is to provide our students with year-round access to fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs. MHS will create a multi-disciplinary agriculture learning experience for students in the garden and greenhouse which is currently under construction on campus.

Edward R. Roybal Learning Center

AAAJ-LA strongly believes that community education combined with civic engagement is the most effective way to create empowered citizens and make lasting change in communities. If we are awarded this grant we will be able to purchase additional supplies to build more boxes and hence expand our garden thus increasing student and parent involvement. Also, garden expansion will bring us closer to our goal of creating a small project selling the herbs and vegetables at a local farmers market thus providing our Special Education students with job skills and training.

Coyle School System

Coyle schools fundraised for years to purchase a greenhouse. Our dream is becoming a reality
in December 2014. Our goal is to provide hands-on learning experience for not only the 50
students in our Agricultural Education Courses (AECs) and Future Farmers of America Chapter,
but begin a culture of garden involvement throughout our school of 297 children, many of which are
low-income.
These funds would help to:
● Expand the reach of our garden to students outside of AECs

A.D. Rundle

A.D. Rundle's garden will grow healthy vegetables, community, curriculum, outdoor experiences, working together, social skills, non-verbal communication, education around nature, and experiences in play not isolated to metal, rubber, and plastic structures. Children have little time for free play anymore, and when children do have free time, it's often spent inside in front of television or computers. School facility playgrounds are often the only outdoor activities that many young children experience, and we hope to improve that by adding more natural space to our school.

Rosemead High School

The goal of the “The Best of Thymes” garden is to create smarter, healthier, more inspired students.

Valley Forge Educational Services

Our vegetable garden goals include enabling our students with special needs to reap the benefits from a hands-on outdoor curriculum that teaches them how to connect with the outdoor environment, complete a food garden from seed to harvest, connect with the benefits of healthier lifestyle choices and participate in a positive activity that can help others. Since its installation in the spring of 2014, the garden has been woven into many academic subject areas as well as our enrichment programs.

The Academy Charter School

Built in 2013, The Academy’s Aquaponics Garden consists of four raised wooden beds filled with hydroponic grow rocks and connected to a pond filled with Koi. The overall goal is to teach healthy eating habits to students while showing them how to sustain themselves through nature. The garden grows vegetables with the produce given to students and available for them to take home to their families. Garden projects have also become part of the school curriculum within multiple classes.

Burns Latino Studies Academy

Summer of Solutions Hartford is a youth leadership development and food justice program based in Frog Hollow, Hartford. We built a school garden at the Burns Latino Studies Academy, our local community school, in 2012.
Over the past three years, we have worked with teachers and students to care for the garden and harvest the produce. We worked with teachers to write activities in the garden which complemented what their students were learning in the classroom. Each year, we work with 10 classrooms for at least four sessions.

Wilton High School

Some of what is written below is from our course proposal in 2015 for our Farm To Table class...

 

We find ourselves disconnected from our farms and farmers, and from the story of what we eat.   As society started to move to cities and away from farms many local food sources have disappeared.  Food as we know it today is processed in enormous bulk and shipped halfway around the world before finding its way to our pantries.   It seems as if food comes from a shelf  in the supermarket.  One of the biggest trends in the culinary world today is the farm-to-table movement.

Valley Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Lifecycle Team at VAAS works to encourage healthy food and activity choices in the school community and in the community at large. We host community dinners to teach healthy cooking habits and quick recipes as an alternative to fast food, we host events for a "Healthy Kids Day" for kids and teens as Casa Esperanza, a community center in a low-income area of Panorama City, and we are currently putting together plans and community partners to support a mobilized farmers market that will take fresh produce to those who do not have easy access in their neighborhoods.

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