High School

Kennedy Alternative High School

The garden/greenhouse is used as outdoor/indoor classrooms for place-based experiential learning, with an emphasis on developing a model for learning entrepreneurial and vocational skills in sustainable agricultural with a newly-added aquaculture program and additional propagation space.

Baldwin School

The goals of The Baldwin School Garden Project are to create, support, and sustain our school garden so that students can connect with nature in engaging, nurturing and inspirational ways and to make plant based learning and whole food a part of the education of all our students. As well as to foster cooperative spirit among schools, families and the surrounding community through involvement with the school garden. And finally, to create a vibrant, sharing network of educators and partners committed to putting the school gardens at the heart of our shared community.

Alberni District Secondary School

Our goal for the ADSS School Garden program is to provide students with project-based and environmental education opportunities that integrate the school garden with academic and elective learning outcomes. Our garden will be a place of learning and growing where education is hands-on, observable, and multi-disciplinary.

Hartman Public School

What is unique about our initiative is that includes the creation of two gardens on two different school properties. Our main goals are to build positive connections with both community members and our environment. Our schools are situated in a fast growing suburban area and it is very multicultural. This year, our new community has also been separated by school boundaries. These gardens will be a vehicle to establish positive community ties. Our second goal stems from the fact that our neighborhood has farmer

Woolman School

Our garden feeds and educates the students and staff of the Woolman Semester School and promotes our core values of peace, justice, and sustainability via interactions with the wider community. Most of the garden's 7,000 annual pounds of produce are used in our school kitchen; with it, interns, students and staff members cook three meals a day for between twenty and forty people at a time. Administrative staff, teachers, interns, students, and volunteers all help in the garden, learning as they do so how to grow food while caring for the land.

Woodbridge High School

The goal of our garden is to provide our moderate to severe students an opportunity to learn some life skills. This includes the ability to understand the growing process and the necessary elements, how to plant the right plants during the right season, how to care for the plants including tending the soil, how to harvest the food and then lastly how to prepare the food to eat. We have the luxury of having a kitchen area and provide living skills lessons to our students that inlcudes how to care for produce and how to wash it and cook it.

White's Junior/ Senior High School

Our goal is to involve our "at-risk" youth in the establishment, maintenance, and harvest of a series of gardens. Through this, they will enjoy fresh air and sunshine while learning how to garden. It will provide emotional healing and self-esteem as they watch their garden grow. It will give them opportunity to work with teachers and staff, providing opportunities to talk while working in this informal setting. They will learn about plants and how they grow in relation to achieving healthy, sustainable gardens.

Green Initiative club, Westwood Community High School

Westwood High School has a trend of unhealthy eating practices, with most students making unhealthy food choices. This is causing a rise in the number of cases of obesity within the student population. This is the first attempt at establishing a greenhouse at Westwood High School. The complication of our geographic location is the cold climate that dominates most of our school year.

Ventura High School

The goal for this project at Ventura High School is to provide an outdoor learning space for all students. The space will be separated into four distinct areas. The first one will be an open space with picnic tables for an entire class to use during a class period. Next to this classroom space, there will be a demonstration area where students will be able to create structures out of sand.

Van Buren Elementary

The goal for our garden is to use it as a learning experience for students in our elementary school and high school as well as an opportunity for community members to work side-by-side with our students and staff. Students will directly observe the life cycle of plants from seed to vegetable. Planting would take place in late fall and early spring, when school is in session. Raised beds provide a healthier environment for beneficial microorganisms and earthworms because there's no foot traffic to compact the soil.

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