High School

Roy High School

"Why does my mom buy that stuff for me if it's not healthy?"

"My dad says we don't need that stuff (fruits and vegetables)."

These are actual comments from students I face everyday in my Foods and Nutrition courses. Other students don't know where their next meal is coming from. Parents and children are facing a nutritional crisis.

Harlem Renaissance High School

Harlem Renaissance High School (HRHS) and the Hunter College Liberty Partnership Program (HCLPP) created the garden and nutrition program with the goals of exposing an at-risk community to healthy eating, promoting environmental leadership, encouraging students to enter STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines and increasing access to green jobs.

Full Circle High School

The goal at Full Circle is to fully establish Somerville's first Hydroponic School Garden, nicknamed the Somerville Innovation Farm. Though the basic hydroponic systems have been acquired, our hope is to create a sustainable, interconnected system with aquaponic capacity to serve as an on-site lab for STEM-based education for high school students, and an educational destination for elementary students and afterschool programs throughout Somerville.

Odyssey School

If we are awarded this grant we will be able to bring our vision to life, literally. The Studio Arts
team, along with our community partners, have developed a plan to beautify our school grounds.
We have an above ground plot that needs attention so that we can grow vegetables. Next, we
want to create some containers near the kitchen where we can grow herbs. We
want to create smaller gardens in the front of school with drought tolerant
plants. We want to use what we grow to cook and create in the art and kitchen spaces at

Jordan Plus High School

My goal for this garden is to create a bio-diverse ecosystem filled with food, herbs, and butterfly or bird attracting plants, so my students and the neighborhood residents can experience nature and fresh food. The garden is located in an underserved neighborhood, so I would like to create an oasis where people can connect with nature. I am currently working on comprehensive signs to distribute throughout the garden, so it can be used as an educational space for myself and other teachers.

Cookson Hills Christian School

Each year, our garden gives 14 to 24 at-risk secondary students a chance to develop, grow, and market organic crops. It also lets them experience what it is like to raise a garden for home produce.

Our goals are to maintain these opportunities and expand the program to serve our elementary students, as well. Ideally, we could make the program available to 50 students. In addition, we would like to teach sustainability and environmental consciousness through composting.

Fonda-Fultonville Central school

The goal of our school garden club is to create a sustainable vegetable and herb garden. We are going to increase the size of our current very small garden. A grant to provide a greenhouse would enable us to start our own seeds and allow us to produce extra plants which we could plant and also sell as a fundraiser to help maintain the costs to sustain our garden.The food produced in the garden will be used by the cafeteria staff for the school lunch program. We would like to provide fresh salad vegetables 3 times weekly on a monthly basis throughout the growing season.

REACH school

• This grant will make it possible for all 50 students enrolled at REACH school, many of which have some form of developmental delay (i.e. autism, downs syndrome, fragile X, etc.), to build an awareness of where their food comes from. Many of our students consider the grocery store to be the main source for food and produce, and as educators we find this very problematic. The edible garden grant would enable us to provide hands on opportunity for our students to learn about the cycles of food production, and they would participate in every step along the way, from seed to soil.

Las Vegas Academy of the Arts

Sustainability is one of the important themes at the heart of the Advanced Placement Environmental Science curriculum. When asked how our campus could be more sustainable, my advanced placement students immediately turned to an unused courtyard located next to the science buildings on the historic Las Vegas Academy of the Arts campus. Since August, students have been diligently transforming this space into a garden. They started by planting gourds and are now inspired to do so much more.

Newark Leadership Academy

Newark Leadership Academy’s mission is to re-engage over-age and under-credited youth (ages 16-20) through programming that combines workforce training, academics, socio-emotional support, and leadership development to provide students with the necessary skills to succeed. In fall 2014, NLA staff and students collaborated to create the school’s first Garden Club in an effort to provide students with additional leadership and development opportunities, and plant and sustain a garden that would benefit the school community.

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