High School

Crockett High School

We visualize a garden in a location near the cafeteria where it would be easy to bring the food in and use it to feed the children of Crockett. We visualize a project that takes advantage of every single student's ability. We visualize a team of people working together to create a space that people meet and want to be in together. We visualize people all around our school wanting to become involved in our garden. We visualize working together to create something lasting and beautiful that will enhance learning for all of our students for many years.

Ivy Academy

The goal for our Garden Program, should we receive funds from this grant, is to expand our current garden through the use of a greenhouse and the necessary materials for maintaining it properly. A sufficient greenhouse-growing program would allow for Ivy Academy to extend its cold weather-growing season, as well as get a head start on the spring. We would also be able to experiment with out of season crops in the winter. The overall goal is to add a structure to our garden so that we can continue to maximize our program

Wyandanch Memorial High School

The goal of Wyandanch High School Community Garden is to unite the community, by educating both students and adults about the health and wellness benefits of gardening. My ultimate goal is to expand the gardening project over the years to the middle and elementary schools in Wyandanch. In conjunction with the Wyandanch PTO and the Wyandanch School Lunch Program, I plan to hold gardening workshops. A pair of our experienced gardeners will share information about our community garden, give gardening tips, and educate the community on the benefits of gardening.

Rocky Mountain High School

The goal for the Gardens at Rocky Mountain High School is to provide students with a hands on work opportunity in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster.

Westside High School

The Westside High School Urban Agriculture Program, located in Houston, Texas, is a multi-disciplinary environmental vocation program that develops teens' abilities to grow, cook, eat, and sell real food as well as conduct practical scientific research in urban agriculture topics. With the assistance of the Whole Kids Foundation, we will redesign and expand the size of our vegetable, herb, and fruit gardens in an effort to create more space for students to develop horticulture projects, install a rainwater harvesting system as well as grow more food to eat and sell.

The Altamont School

The Altamont School realizes the importance of educating students on global issues because they will most likely be the ones trying to solve them. This school year, every teacher at Altamont must incorporate the study of water into their curriculum. The School plans to adopt one global issue each year, and the garden will be a natural fit for several of the issues.

Cross Middle High School

A school / community garden is a grass root approach to advance a healthy lifestyle through hands-on agriculture. Students with diverse needs will be exposed to a unique learning environment which will encourage them to eat healthier and give them the knowledge to be more self-sufficient.

Thomas Edison High School

The garden will be used to teach students how to grow their own food. After students grow their own food they will research recipes (or be given a recipe) that they will cook in class. We have a cooking class that focuses on how to cook good food to eat. The teacher teaches them how to cut food, different methods of cooking, and how to add nutritious ingredients that they might not think of to add nutrients to their diet. This year they have made homemade salsa with peppers and tomatoes from the garden. They made zucchini muffins from the garden with more zucchini recipes coming.

Thomas Jefferson High School

The goal for this year for the Garden of Youth is to complete the infrastructure of our first garden on school grounds. Prior to last summer, the Garden of Youth program operated on the Hebrew Educational Alliance property adjacent to the school grounds. With the help of the Facilities Management/Sustainability Department, the Garden of Youth broke ground in the summer of 2013 for their first ever garden on school grounds. Last summer's program participants installed four 4 by 16 foot raised concrete beds.

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