High School

Michigan Islamic Academy

The goal of our school garden is to help our students become excited about growing and eating locally grown food from organic sources. We are very committed to encouraging our students to adopt healthy eating habits, which we hope the grant will enable us to do by making it possible for us to grow our own vegetables. We also hope to foster the notion of responsibility in our younger students, as we intend to have each elementary classroom be responsible for their own section of the garden. Our plan is to integrate our gardens into the classroom.

Laurens District 55 High School

We have two ultimate goals with our gardening program. First we would like to be able to produce enough fresh and healthy vegetables to sale to our school cafeteria. Secondly we would to use the garden as an educational garden to teach those at our school, other schools, and in our community about raised bed gardening. We will work with our feeder schools to teach students and teachers about raising vegetables in raised bed so that they can start beds at their school.

Northeast School

This grant will assist with the educational center within the four-acre market garden being developed. Funds will be used to purchase seeds, hoes, shovels, etc. The goals for the educational center would be to educate students on healthy lifestyles and ways to prepare fresh items. We also will provide training to individuals interested in pursuing community employment or entrepreneurial businesses that would include marketing skills so they will understand the connection between growing local health food and the financial benefits.

Delaware School for the Deaf

Our goal is to teach our children using hand on approach. The school garden are integrated into different subjects (read below) and character education. They learn best through visual and hand on activities. They involved smell, sight, taste and touch.
They learn why it is important to take care of the garden so vegetables can grow bountiful and healthy. It requires attention, and commitment. It teaches children to apply same philiosophy to real life.

New York School for the Deaf

This program will provide the opportunity for our students to: *Make the connection between a seed to the vegetables grown for consumption and to understand first-hand the concept of Farm-to-Market. *Participate in a hands-on science & nutrition instructional program. *Try vegetables that they have actually grown themselves. *Cook/bake with organic, fresh vegetables that they have grown *Work in the garden as part of their vocational training. *Participate in the greater cause of feeding those members of the community that are in need.

Learning Prep School

The Learning Prep School Horticulture Program and Greenhouse has been providing the local community with student-grown flowering plants and vegetables since 1980. Throughout this time thousands of students have worked to learn life and work skills and connect to the environment through the process of propagating and caring for plants.

The Lionheart School

The onsite garden that the Whole Foods grant would provide will be a setting to reinforce garden and classroom curriculum as well as an opportunity for students to grow as independent individuals through starting seeds, cultivating the beds, and harvesting the fruit of their labor. Goals of the garden are to:
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Umatilla High School

Our primary goals are to teach our cadets about hunger and how to grow food. This project was choosen by the cadets and will be led by cadets. Cadets will learn about hunger from local food bank officials and the instructor. Each class will visit a local food bank to get an idea of how it operates and the importance of donations and volunteers. Cadets will be given a chance to sign up to volunteer. Each class has 8 squads (4 to 8 cadets); each squad will build, plan, and maintain a 4' by 4' square foot garden.

Paul Public Charter School

Our goal is that our garden serve as a teaching tool for students as well as the larger community. We want 100% of students to visit the garden and contribute to its maintenance through a classroom visit, 100 students to complete an in-depth garden curriculum through the Global Health and Wellness elective, and at least 50 community members to participate in 3 seasonal garden events.

Fedcap School

Our garden has several goals, and integrates well with several parts of our academic and vocational curricula . Our students are all behaviorally challenged, most are poor readers: they learn best by ̢

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