High School

Live Oak School

Our garden's goal is to highlight the connections between food, health and community and deepen the relationships between each. One, through hands-on garden activities, we provide education on how to grow seasonal vegetables, herbs and fruit. Two, by showcasing innovative ways to reinvigorate the land and our valuable topsoil, using composting methods. Three, with local ingredients and a community of local youth and their families to help, we will harvest our produce and empower community members by sharing methods to prepare our seasonal bounty simply and deliciously.

Lincoln Public Schools

Our Garden Project mission statement:

To create an outdoor classroom space in the form of a garden that will foster student connections to and appreciation of the natural world through hands on exploration.

To enrich and support existing K-8 curriculum across all disciplines and provide inspiration for new areas of learning.

Bronx Lighthouse College Prep Academy

The South Bronx is not a very green community. Green spaces reduce crime and increase mental health. Our communities are the highest in the city in crime, mental health disorders, teen pregnancy, and unemployment. Our students are completely capable of being an active member in improving our communities in these ways. There is a group of twenty students and teachers who already love gardening. My goal is to harness the passion of those already of the gardening mindset to spread their passion to the rest of the school.

Leetonia High School

Our gardening project is part of a total school program for expanding dietary preferences and work skills among students with multiple disabilities and their peers. It also will help us teach sustainable methods of gardening within the science curriculum. The original gardens consist of three raised beds built by the students. The gardens produced tomatoes used by the school cafeteria, and hot peppers that were canned as jelly for a fundraiser.

Los Angeles Leadership Academy

In addition to being an outdoor teaching space, a primary garden goal is to be able to grow enough vegetables to have a weekly salad bar at our school. Students at our school largely come from disadvantaged and low income families and many lack access to fresh healthy food. Yet in the work we have done so far in the garden we have found that our students love to chop vegetables, to make salads and stir fries and are very willing to eat their veggies.

Katherine Anne Porter School

Katherine Anne Porter School's garden is a place for our students to learn not just the science associated with gardening but also a place to learn respect for our environment. We hope to engage our students with a desire to learn how to encourage our soil to return it's nutritional wealth to us through the use of organic principals of gardening. With the assistance of the Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant we will be able to build better fences to protect the garden from deer foraging, build up the soil in the beds, have a larger garden space, and a healthier return at harvest time.

Horizon Academy

It is our goal that a vegetable garden will enrich both our school year programs and summer programs. For the past nine years, we have sponsored a Junior Master Gardeners

Transition Plus Hopkins

The goal of this garden is to provide a real life learning lab for our special needs students who are 18-21. This would be a real life learning lab which would help implant thoughts of nutrition and hard work, planning and follow through in addition to one of the most important goals of our students which is human interaction. "When communities provide opportunities for people to work side by side for a common good, their attitudes for each other significantly improve." (August Hoffman, Star Tribune, 2012). Project based experiences have proven to be the most valuable with our students.

Farmington Harrison High School

This project addresses the creation of a functional working urban garden on the campus of Farmington Harrison High School. The garden will house local vegetables, herbs and flowers. This project will serve as a beacon for healthy sustainable living-something often lacking in the community of Farmington and Farmington Hills. It provides a rare opportunity for a suburban community to utilize space with purpose. The goal of this project is to promote sustainability through our school and local community.

This program is supported by .

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