High School

Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

(THE BELOW STATEMENT WAS WRITTEN BY THE SOTA FARM CLUB STUDENTS)

The Farm Club is dedicated to educating, encouraging, and empowering students to become active on the school farm while practicing and promoting ecological awareness and sustainability. On the farm, students engage in activities such as digging soil, planting crops, harvesting crops, and building additional farm facilities.

In addition to this, The Farm club holds many community outreach events and workshops.

Science Leadership Academy

With this grant, students will be involved in projects over a 2 year period. First, the grant will provide seeds and materials like soaker hoses, tools, soil, and gloves to maintain the garden. In addition, several raised bed boxes are decaying and will need to be replaced. Water hoses decay and need to be replaced. Other things we will need include fertilizer and books on how to garden.

St. Peter Catholic Secondary school

Our main goal is to continue to expand the size of the garden and work in cooperation with the school's dual credit high skills culinary program. The culinary program is expected to make meals that are used to feed students who access the breakfast program and to make meals for different community agencies including Women shelters, St. Vincent De Paul (homeless and the poor), and others. The grant will help us purchase new materials and items required to continue to support the culinary program and help feed students who require support, community people who need a hot meal.

White Plains Academy

The mission of Putnam County Schools is to produce individuals who serve and participate productively in society. The WPA garden works whole-heartedly toward that mission.

Teachers incorporate activities into daily lesson plans enabling them to reach students on another level, volunteers receive satisfaction from a successful service endeavor, and the community will ultimately become the benefactor from a project that has the potential to create gardens designed to provide abundant and healthy food choices for residents.

Madison High School

Students in the culinary arts program will plant, tend and cultivate the school garden to learn about nutrition and farm-to-table growing. The students will learn how to prepare and serve the food by operating an outdoor cafe where they will offer freshly grown and prepared foods, supporting the farm-to-table concept and the fight against obesity. Students will learn about seasonal planting, the growing cycle, soil care and maintenance, pest control and chemicals, composting, and how to properly cook and serve the produce they grow.

Hampden Academy

Our proposal for our project is to continue growing our community garden for our school, students, and their families. This has proved to be successful and a great learning experience the past few years, and has been therapeutic for individual and family therapy, and group therapy. With this garden we use it as a tool to help educate on health, nutrition, and care, team building, and developing a therapeutic coping tool.

Ray Graham Training Center High School

Our school has just started an agriculture program, and the grant will make it possible for us to train our students so that they may eventually be able to find lifelong employment in gardening or horticultural areas. Most of our students are low income, and they often live in apartments with no outdoor space available.

Eastside Memorial High School

The goal of our garden project is to link students with their physical and natural world, and promote food security and environmental education. We want to beautify our garden grounds and make it inviting for Eastside students as a productive garden and outdoor learning space.

Richmond Technical Center

The goal of this garden is to provide healthy and nutritious produce to students, staff, business and community partners of the school. This produce will be sold to benefit the students in the program and given to them to supplement their nutritional needs. Also, students will increase their knowledge of agricultural produce. Our food supply is becoming more localized due to high transportation costs and this grant will help the students participate in the local market.

Lac qui Parle Valley

Our first priority is to educate and inspire our students with the use of our passive solar greenhouse. This student-led project has directly involved over 100 students in the planning and building phases. Once we begin to produce greens our students will be able to enjoy healthy, fresh, organic salads grown in their own backyard. The greenhouse will be used as an ecducation tool to extend the classroom as the students learn real-world applications of the growing process.

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