High School

Litchfield Minnesota Middle School

Our first goal is to get an existing greenhouse at the school up and running. Since being built, the green house area has been too hot to successfully grow plants. Master gardeners, a local CSA farmer, and the owner of the area garden nursery have all made suggestions of ways to correct our greenhouse problems and we are confident with this grant we can purchase the equipment to correct our problems.

Cornerstone Charter Health High School

The purpose of the garden is to provide students with an educational experience and options for healthier lifestyle choices. Because there are two schools in our building, Madison Carver Academy and Cornerstone Charter Health High School, it will provide both groups opportunities to learn as well as facilitate mentorship opportunities where they will be able to work together. Students will learn about nutrition, gardening, leadership, and project planning. The food will be used in the school cafeteria and within the community.

Guadalupe Montessori School

The goal of the GMS garden is to grow fresh produce for our school's lunch program, provide educational and enrichment opportunities for the school and the community, and to market excess produce and create value added products to support the garden.

Our goal for this grant is to purchase the materials and build a production greenhouse. This project would have benefits both for the school and for the community.

Beechcroft High School

The mission of the community garden is: The Good Seed Community Garden is an effort put forth by both our church and the community members of Sharon Woods to unify and celebrate our neighborhood.

Since its inception, the Good Seed Community Garden has been partnering with the students at Beechcroft High School. Their service learning projects have enriched the community and the school, bringing fresh ideas and beautiful additions to the space.

Garinger High School

The Urban Farm Learning Center is focused on producing fresh healthy food, teaching people to feed themselves in a sustainable way, and workforce development through targeted internships and transitional employment. The Farm is the extension of a school garden started in the 2000's by a Teach for America Service Member, and is the largest produce generator for Charlotte's Meals on Wheels organization, with over 90 gardens in the network and counting.

Forestville Union School District

Our goal is to provide a garden experience that encourages and allows students and the school community to work together to create an outdoor learning adventure that grows good scholars, leaders, friends, and stewards of the earth! Children who use organizational and math skills to plan what to plant, and how to do it, become better scholars. Children who take on leadership responsibilities, such as teaching a group of younger students what a Three-Sisters garden is and how to plant one, practice leadership skills.

Roaring Fork High School

Goals: teach youth how to grow food, prepare it, eat well & carry this knowledge home to their families to improve health; create a model project environmental for our high altitude region to grow food year round with a low carbon footprint; provide food to high school lunch program; & create a collaborative, hands-on education model to spread this education to all ages. In 2013 the college will use our orchard to teach Sustainable Agriculture and create a forest garden permaculture model.

El Colegio Charter School

The goal of this garden is two-fold: for students to take the lead at all levels of production, including design, maintenance, and harvesting, as a means of connecting food cultivation with learning, healthy living, and leadership. Secondly, many members of our community have immigrated and wish to preserve traditions of land cultivation as well as maintain connection with our youth. The garden is a space for young people and the community to engage in a process of co-learning and cultural retention.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

As a teacher of ESE students it can be difficult for these students to achieve the level of success that they desire. A poor self esteem can accompany a learning disability for many of the individuals. It is my goal through the garden project that these students not only learn science concepts that they need but also develop a leadership role at the school. Through positive interaction with fellow classmates these students will begin to see that they can succeed and this sense of accomplishment will transfer to other classes and life in general.

Burbank Community Day School

The primary purpose of this garden is to teach students at the Community Day School sustainable gardening practices. The Community Garden will promote the formation and expansion of the community and the student relations. It develops the resources to develop a greener and healthier community. The garden will serve many educational purposes in reference to the production of nutritious foods, conservation resources; it will encourage research on the impact of community gardening and greening.

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