High School

Crystal Lake Central HS

Our goal for the Crystal Lake Central High School garden is to use the hydroponic gardening system to teach students about the way of the future in terms of growing fruits and vegetables. Many of today’s greenhouse vegetables are grown through a hydroponic system. Our goal is to use the grant money to continue to add more components to the garden.

Palm Beach Gardens Community High School

There is a local need,across the community,for healthy foods which currently can be expensive and unobtainable. The requested funds will improve our existing program by allowing expansion of our current Culinary garden. We hope to produce and harvest more vegetables,experiment with alternative growing mediums (hydroponic) and provide a larger arena for more student workers. The produce would be harvested and used for our weekly "Gator Bites Cafe" luncheons and full advantage taken to prepare and create healthy ,appealing and nutritious additions to our daily "specials".

Academy of Arts and Sciences

The garden at The Academy of Arts and Sciences will be used as a classroom for CUESA’s model Schoolyard to Market program, which is now in its pilot semester at The Academy. This grant will allow us to continue the program there through 2015.

The students grow produce organically in the garden and sell it at our Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. They take field trips to working farms and participate in lessons about food, gardening, and sustainability.

NYC iSchool

Students at the NYC iSchool participate in project-based courses called modules where they are expected to tackle real world issues in their community. Our module is called Food Revolution and its goal is to teach students how our country’s food system is contributing to the growing obesity epidemic in the United States. For example, we spend the first few weeks of the course discussing how the 2014 Farm Bill has added to the obesity epidemic by subsidizing the main ingredients in processed food and by cutting $8 billion dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

North High

After touring Growing Power in Milwaukee, and seeing urban agriculture in action our dream is to construct our own hoop house on site at Oshkosh North. In this project students would have hands on experience in design, construction, engineering, vermicomposting, system analysts, aquaponics, planting and harvesting. The produce and fish that they would produce would be used by North Family and Consumer Education classes, donated to the local food pantry and sent home with needy students. The Vermicomposting would be packaged and sold.

Sherwood High School

My horticulture classes have been creating an organic garden on the school grounds on an abandoned native tree nursery. My students grow everything from seeds, as we have a large greenhouse to grow seedlings. Some of my students are ESOL students from various countries around the world. Many come from agrarian backgrounds. The knowledge and enthusiasm they bring to class is infectious, and we have been moving into new areas of urban farming. Over the summer I supervised 3 interns who grew vegetables and sold these at the local farmer's market.

Spring Valley High School

My primary goal is to incorporate WV Content Standards for my math classes into a project based, hands on learning environment for my special education students. Other teachers will utilize this project; Physical Education, Science, English and Language Arts, Spanish, Health and Nutrition, and Building Construction.

Meeting Street

The goal of the Meeting Street school garden program is to improve academic outcomes for our students by integrating different curricular areas into an outdoor learning environment. A Whole Kids Foundation grant of $2,000 will provide Meeting Street with the means to expand our current school garden program into a centerpiece for an integrated community-based curriculum.

Verde Valley School

The VVS Global Garden was established in spring 2013 using almost all found and recycled materials. Students made the exterior fence using recycled pallets, rock cairns, scrap metal, and an old school bus for the tool shed. Our motivation for building the garden was threefold: to provide a sustainably-grown, local source of produce for our dining hall, to involve students in all aspects of garden management for educational and practical purposes, and to use the garden as an outreach tool for the local community to learn more about sustainability.

Merrimack Valley High School

My class truly believes in "from farm to table." My life skills, food choices class has been learning about where and how we get our food. Most students want to eat healthy but are restricted at school due to our school lunch program. Our class goal is to build a garden at our school and be able to learn and create food for our class and for the entire school. Eventually it would be great to supply the school kitchen with our vegetables daily.

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