High School

Community Transition Program

Our school garden goal is to change our students

Sayre High School

The goal of the Sayre Garden project is to promote access to healthy foods in low-income West Philadelphia neighborhoods surrounding the school. We believe that healthy, nourishing food is a basic building block of healthy communities and that schools can play a leading role in community health promotion. A grant from the Whole Kids Foundation will allow Sayre High School to develop a new and innovative food distribution program to supplement our existing weekly schoolyard youth farm stand.

The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers

This grant will make cooking with veggies possible during our Spring & Summer Gardening Internship Program.

In order for students to learn how to cook fresh and nutritional meals, UAGC needs funding to purchase ingredients (fruits, vegetables, seasonings, etc.) that can't be harvested from the garden (this will be the case until late June). Seeds, plants, & dirt will also be purchased & planted in the spring so students can harvest and cook during the Summer Gardening Internship Program using food they grow.

Timothy Murphy School

We have several goals for our garden this year and in the years to come. The first goal is to provide an opportunity for our students to learn about gardening, the cycles of plant life, how to grow healthy, organic food and develop a sense of accomplishment that so many of our students have never experienced. Students will learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the food they grow. The garden will also provide fruit and vegetables for the students to take home and share with their families.

TH Rogers Elementary

TH Rogers has integrated the habitats and gardens into the schools curricula. The accessible gardens are used by our culturally diverse, gifted and talented, profoundly deaf, and multiply impaired students. Our goal is to increase our students access by providing adaptive tools to our multiply impaired students, build a greenhouse to allow year-round gardening activities accessible to all, introduce healthy, ethnically diverse, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables to our students.

Ketchum-Grande Memorial School

A main goal of the garden project is to cultivate community and tolerance in our school and help our students embrace diversity. We also wish to help students become more informed consumers. Many of the students at our school come from homes with weak family guidance and limited exposure to nutritional food choices. Students will learn about the health benefits of including more fruits and vegetable in their diets. They will also discover that fresh fruits and vegetables taste good and make them feel better.

Toronto District Christian School

After partnering with Seeds For Change back in 2013, Toronto District Christian High School is once again working with the organization to extend its community garden. A group of students from the school's environmental class have taken on the project by installing four new garden beds to make a total of seven. These beds will produce fruits, vegetables, and herbs for the school's cafeteria. A portion of the harvest will also be donated to various causes around the community, including the local food bank and Vaughn Hospice.

Haines Borough School

Three and a half years ago, in response to a community desire to compost school lunch scraps, the Takshanuk Watershed Council (TWC) began the Starvin

Santa Rosa Charter School

Our garden goal is "grow and share the bounty!" The grant would cover costs of new quality tools such as shovels, rakes, pruners etc...Supply a variety of organic seeds and plants plus soil and amendments. It would greatly help expand our worm composting program, providing boxes and covers for our worms, the compost is waste from the cafeteria. We could start our chicken program and enclosure. These two programs will provide greater success for our ongoing fundraising farmers markets and sales of garden produce to our school community.

Southold Elementary School

The Southold Garden Project supports the cultivation of a school garden for the betterment of our school, our community, and most importantly, our children. Creating and maintaining a school garden improves both health and education. The garden helps teach kids to make better choices about food and enables the school to provide better food options in the cafeteria. The garden creates an outside space for hands-on, practical study of science, math, literature, business, industrial technology, home economics, art and design.

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