High School

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.

Charleston Collegiate School

To educate students on the rigors and joys of growing organic vegetables and herbs. School curriculum is implemented for K-12, all students work in the garden. Vegetables are used in the school cafeteria.

Trinity Academy of Raleigh

Trinity Academy has two small raised beds on our campus that are designated to various grade levels. The students plant seeds, nurture the gardens, and harvest the produce year round. We utilize our crops for some personal use but also in donation form to organizations that will accept our produce. Our gardens parallel with our science curriculum as well as service learning. We would love the opportunity to have a garden dedicated to the entire lower school in order for all students to participate.

South Shore Educational Collaborative

Our goal for the school garden is to engage students by providing a dynamic environment to observe, discover, experiment, nurture and learn through hands on experience and direct connection to classroom curriculum. Our hope is to turn our courtyard into a garden to be a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from real life experiences and encouraging students to become active participants in the learning process. South Shore Educational Collaborative is made of up 4 programs and this garden will be a great opportunity to collaborate with other programs.

Mountain Valley School

The Mountain Valley School’s greenhouse has two main goals: to provide fresh, nutritious produce to the school cafeteria and serve as living laboratory space for k-12 science classes. This grant will fund resilient vegetable beds built of cedar and rich soil to fill them. The expected lifetime of these boards is around a decade: cedar resists rot. This will serve our first goal by providing a robust growing space for our vegetables.

École des Grands-Vents

The ultimate goal for our garden project is to create an environment where students of the École des Grands-Vents can actively participate in a school garden on a weekly basis, bringing them into greater contact with nature in order to better understand nutrition and the foods that they eat, which will enable them to have a more personal and intimate connection with food that will stay with the students throughout their lives and assist them in making healthy lifestyle choices.

Tenino High School

Three specific goals for our garden are:
Goal 1-Improve nutritional awareness and promote healthy eating habits by engaging and educating students. Students will play a vital role in all stages of the garden including designing, planting, maintaining, and harvesting duties.

Portland High School

In an effort to promote lifelong, healthy habits for our students & a sense of community service, the idea of “Get Healthy: A Panther Community Garden” was conceived. The garden will be operated by students on school grounds, with future plans for a Farmer’s Market open to the community. The goal of this garden is sustainable supplementation of fresh fruits & vegetables to the Panther Pantry (food pantry for underprivileged PHS students currently serving 50 students).

North Middlesex Regional High School

Our community garden’s overall goal is to combat hunger and food insecurity in our community while raising awareness of these issues by hosting events in our school and in our community. In addition we offer a level of education for our students by teaching about sustainability and organic practices. With the help of this grant we will further our gardens sustainability by building additional raised beds, purchasing organic seeds and seedlings, and expanding our aquaponics/hydroponics system.

Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School

Our goal is to develop a school garden that will serve as an outdoor classroom where students can learn about nutrition and wellness. Last year, students and staff members cleaned up and repaired an empty roof area to create a vibrant community gathering place. We also planted herbs, vegetables and flowers. Although the garden was small, the experience was transformative for the students. Many students shared that the experience helped them feel more connected to the earth, make better choices about eating and feel a greater sense of community.

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