High School

Galway High School / Central School District

The Rural Community Sustainable Farming Project (RCSFP) mission is to develop a self sustainable garden which utilizes an all natural means of organic farming. This requires heating (on site/ off grid), rain water collection, biodiesel production from waste vegetable oil and compost production. No man made pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizer will be used to grow food for the Galway School District and the surrounding community.

Pomaika'i Elementary School

Our goal is to create a sustainable outdoor classroom where the children can explore, witness and participate in endless oppertunities to learn about ecology, Hawaiian culture, nutrition and mutuial respect for each other, oneself and the natural world, among many other diciplines. We aspire to create a space that lends itself to all grade levels and all teaching styles. We aim to foster the enthusiasm the children demostrate by asking to participate in the school garden club and not have to limit their desires to participate due to space.

North Pitt High School

At North Pitt we have re-launched our Agriculture Program which will use this garden as an interactive, hands-on, and outdoor active classroom.

Using this garden our students will be introduced to various levels of the agricultural sciences curriculum as well as learn a healthy skill that will serve them for years ahead.

A Philip Randolph Career & Technical High School

A.P. Randolph is a public vocational school that strives to educate a generation of young Philadelphians with skills vital to our cities development. We are located in the heart of North-Central Philadelphia, a food-desert with some of the nations highest rates of diabetes, obesity, and malnutrition. These conditions are omnipresent in our student population, which is why we are dedicated to providing them with hands-on experiences with local, organic food production as a means of sustainable development.

Patriot Learning Center

Our garden's goal is to increase yearly produce that provides for our Culinary Arts program and provides for the yearly Thanksgiving Feast. The yearly Thanksgiving Feast is part of our community service curriculum that provides lunch for our senior citizens within the community. This teaches our students social responsibility, maintenance, and duties when caring for the garden. This grant provides agricultural opportunities, graduation credit, and career/technical education.

This program is supported by .

Southampton Elementary School

Goals: to provide gardens:

1. Where children learn the Virginia Standrds of Learning (SOLs) objectives in a variety of areas.

2. Which develop within children a passion for nature and gardening.

3. Which build ties within the school family (staff, students, and extended families).

4. Which build bonds with neighbors and community groups.

This grant will help us sustain garden operations and activities for one year. It will also enable us to purchase a much needed teaching table suitable for outdoors.

Nancy B. Jefferson

Our project is titled "the Karma Garden" and our goal is to create a green space with and for our students for the purpose of learning, reflection, therapy and giving.

Perryville High School

In this small, rural community, nutritious fruits and vegetables are not included in the diets of many children and families due to the excessive poverty in this area along with the lack of education about healthy lifestyles.

Lynn English High School

1) To convert an unused courtyard space which is currently a dumping ground for soccer goals, windblown trash, leaves, etc into a vibrant, green space highlighting the visual attractiveness of urban gardens.

2) To model for our school's learning community the importance and simplicity of growing tasty, nutritious vegetables.

3) To grow a variety of relatively low-maintenance, high yield vegetables which will be harvested and served in our school's cafeteria to augment our "Healthy Lifestyles" campaign.

Kokhanok School

The goal of the Kokhanok school garden is to create a teaching tool that is both relevant to the kids of an isolated village and that has the power to dramatically increase the quality of life by introducing and supplying fresh vegetables to the community. Village schools struggle to keep kids engaged with a learning system that bases its portrait of society on events, places, and things that have never been experienced by the people of the community.

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