High School

Eastern Middle/High School

Eastern Local Schools will use this grant to enrich the lives of our students in many ways.The most important thing this grant will do is teach our students how they can grow food to assist in feeding their families and possibly learn to generate income as Pike County has a farmers’ market and produce auction. The grant will also be used to provide fresh vegetables for the students of our district. At each harvest we will be able to disperse the vegetables to students and families who need and desire them.

Cony School

The Cony School garden serves as a “living laboratory” that provides healthy learning opportunities for students. Across the disciplines, the garden enables students to connect with nature, see the relevance of their education, and examine the origin of their food. Currently, the size of the garden limits the number of students that can access the gardens, both in terms of classes using the garden and produce in taste tests.

New Settlement PS 327

The WITS Tower Garden will be the primary feature of the WITS Green for Kids program, with the goal of increasing environmental awareness and develop sustainable practices in public schools. Because the Tower Gardens are mobile, students can connect to nature anywhere in their school, year-round. The Tower Gardens will be featured in the WITS Green Labs, hands-on educational classes on sustainability topics; used to support the WITS Culinary Labs; and also made available to teachers for use in their curricula.

The Classical Academy of Sarasota

The Classical Academy of Sarasota opened its doors to 185 students this academic year, beginning in August 2014. Our future school garden's goal is twofold. First, we wish to allow our students from kindergarten through 12th grade to be a part of the process of growing food in order to enrich their science, nutrition, and health educations. At our school, we encourage healthy lunches and snacks, and provide a lunch service that serves healthful lunches that include locally grown and organic items when possible.

Northome School

The school garden committee selected the following as the goals for our garden committee:
1. Provide our students with fun and interesting experiences that are relevant to the real world.
2. Improve student diets with local produce for healthier living.
3. Teach students how to produce their own food.
4. Teach students how to preserve and prepare their own food.
5. Meet Minnesota education standards in science, health, social studies, and math.
6. Demonstrate gardening and diet techniques for parents and the community.

Valwood School

Our current garden is small, and has only 4 types of vegetables. The kindergarten class has had the most involvement. Our goal is to increase the size, and variety of plantings to create a "Rainbow Colors for Health" annual/perennial garden. This will allow involvement of all of our PUpper Elementaryth grade classes. The "rainbow colors" and associated plantings will include (but not limited to):
• Red: radish, strawberries, apple tree
• Orange; carrots, orange tree
• Yellow: summer squash, lemon tree
• Green: cucumber, spinach, lime tree

Henry Perrine Baldwin High School

Students in the Work Force Readiness Program (WFRP) plant, tend, manage and harvest from the garden on a daily basis and harvest available produce to include in teacher lunches prepared by students on Thursdays in the WFRP commercial kitchen, which is located directly next to the garden. In addition, WFRP students prepare added value items for sale, including jellies and salsas, pot pies, banana breads various pickled produce items, teas and dried herbs.

Miami Jackson Senior High School

The goal of our garden is to show students that gardens don't necessarily have to be on land to be viable and produce food. Vacant lots, concrete and asphalt can be turned into productive gardens that help to feed families and communities. Food security and healthy alternatives to the foods that most of our students eat is a great reason to have such a garden.

Waukon High School

The goal for the garden is to use it as a year-round educational space to introduce students to alternative forms of agriculture as part of a larger study of the food system. Students design and care for the space as part of 7th grade life science and high school horticulture classes. Student-harvested produce is used in a variety of means to promote local food in the district. Students deliver produce to food service staff, where it is advertised and incorporated into school meals. Some is given to students and their families, and the rest featured in after school cooking classes.

South Dade Senior High

South Dade Senior High has a 62 year old agricultural education program and functioning agricultural row crop facility that encompasses approximately 8 acres. It is the program's goal to every year produce vegetables during the winter season that are distributed through our school's farmer's market, and that are also distributed regionally and nationally through local distributors.

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