High School

Reddix Center

The goal of the Friendship Garden is to change the learning landscape of a student with special needs by creating an engaging and meaningful edible garden experience. This grant will help our school expand a working garden for the use as a living laboratory for our special needs student population. Students will develop gardening and leadership skills. The garden will provide an opportunity for our culinary students to develop leadership and life skills when learning to problem solve and work as teams in their kitchen gardens.

Menlo Park Academy

The East Side Youth Garden is an experiential learning garden for low-income youth located in the “backyard” of East Side Neighborhood Services (ESNS). Created in 2001 as part of the ESNS Youth Department’s Upper Elementary program, the garden is also used by Menlo Park Academy, an alternative high school.

Hinsdale Public School

Our school is developing a farm to school program so the students can learn to grow their own food. Our goal is to increase food literacy and change the food culture of the community. Over 90% of the food consumed in the community is imported from other regions. Very little local food is produced in the area. The community is located between two Native American Indian Reservations in eastern Montana, the area is one of the largest food deserts in the USA. The Agriculture department in the school is trying to grow the grower to help correct the lack of a healthy food network in the region.

Western Institute for Leadership Developm

Our garden venture is an integral part of our mission and identity. We believe in preparing our students to take leadership roles in building a sustainable and just world. WILD is located in an economically disadvantaged community, and our vision is that our indoor and outdoor gardens become learning centers for the entire neighborhood and community, with our young people actively engaged in promoting health, access to fresh and organic food, home gardening, and environmental justice.

The Peak School

The Peak School's mission: we seek to ignite passion for academic exploration and to cultivate learners who think critically, act with integrity, and inspire others. Students of diverse talents and backgrounds build a sense of identity and embrace their roles as local and global citizens. The Peak School Greenhouse classroom, at our high altitude of 9,100ft in Frisco, Colorado, will provide unique opportunities for students to engage in meaningful studies on resources and sustainability and gain understanding about the impact and importance of locally grown food.

Kotlik School

Our school garden's goal is to provide cost effective fresh produce to our students' families. We live on the edge of the tundra, and though fresh meat and seafood is abundant, fresh vegetables come at a premium at the local store.

Lincoln School

The positive engagement of staff (working with students) and the learning opportunities that will help our students achieve their learning expectation in their Unique Science program to include lessons in math and reading relative to their experience in gardening.

Galiano Island Community School

The Galiano School Garden is coordinated by the Community Food Program, part of the Galiano Club. The Food Program builds community by growing, preparing, preserving and sharing food. Strengthening island food security, we value collaboration, inclusiveness, healthy growing practices, sustainability and equal food access for all. The garden is the outdoor classroom where we involve community members and integrate learning. With this grant application, we request funds for the continuation of our School Garden program, started by a teacher in 1992.

Stonecreek Montessori Academy

The goal of the Stonecreek Montessori Academy garden will be to provide an outdoor educational experience for the inspiration and cultivation of children's inherent curiosity about their natural world. The garden will provide a nurturing environment where each child can become fully aware of and engaged in their natural surroundings. While being involved in the planning, planting, harvesting, and maintenance of the garden, the children will learn many important lessons about plants, seasons, life cycles, and weather.

Pittsbugh Pioneer

Pionner Education Center is a special education facility that services students within the Pittsburgh Public School District and surrounding districts that place students with us. Pioneer provides a wide range of services to students who have physical/multiple and medical disabilities. Our Sensory garden was created in the spring of 2010 when Pioneer was awarded $100,00 from the Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust. Our garden was designed and created by MTR Landscape Architects. In partnership with the Western Pa Conservancy the sensory garden came to life.

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