High School

Poolesville HS

First Fruits Farms at Poolesville HS goal is to provide a working farm of the future to engage our students in exploring and solving broad societal challenges like hunger, childhood diabetes, dwindling resources and climate change as well as narrow technical challenges of a robotic renewable powered urban farm.

Poolesville's Global House program is the countywide magnet for environmental studies. Agriculture is the number one producer of greenhouse gases and uses 75% of the fresh water consumed.

Ponderosa High School

Ponderosa High School (PHS) has an established greenhouse, outdoor garden, and sustainability program which includes renewable energy, storm water harvesting, native and water wise landscaping, and composting. We are in process of building an additional 800 sq. ft. hoop house that will enable "three season" growing. The greenhouse serves as our classroom, water catchment and aquaculture system, place for seed starting and vermi-composting, and art room for design & planning. In the hoop house we will focus on food production.

Percy L. Julian High School

The goal of the Julian Community Garden is to create an inter-generational environment that offers a variety of opportunities to impact our community; helping students to develop social skills, enhancing school curricula, bringing families in the community together and identifying authentic links between nature and our food, clothing and shelter.

This program is supported by .

Oxford Elementary School

Roberts Farm has three major goals and community gaps which it vision addresses. These are:

Goal 1 - The major community goal for students participating in the Roberts Farm is to grow 4,000 pounds of fresh produce each calendar year to donate to

North West Junior High

1) To provide a safe, fun place for a diverse group of young people to gain cognitive and non-cognitive skills

2) To instruct students in the tending and growing of nutritious fruits and vegetables, and the care of our land.

3) To foster the mentor relationships between high-school and middle-school aged students, and middle and elementary aged students in a

Mesa Preparatory Academy

The goals of the garden include helping students become aware of our natural resources and their limitations, raising awareness for health and nutrition by eating fruits and vegetables each day, raising awareness for environmental issues such as reducing fossil fuel emissions by growing food locally which decreases the need for transportation of goods across states, giving students the skills to grow plants and take care of land which will help them develop pride in themselves, developing a long-lasting bond among the students with the Earth, and finally sharing and spreading the lessons an

Mendez Middle School

Our primary goal is to educate the community on healthy food choices and how to produce healthy food as cost effectively as possible. Mendez Middle School is located in the Dove Springs Community, which has the highest obesity rate in the City of Austin. The area has no farmer's market in surrounding neighborhoods, and the area is a food desert, lacking adequate access to grocery stores for residents.

LP Quinn Elementary

The students in my elementary self-contained special education classroom will be replanting a school garden for a variety of reasons: to watch how a seed grows into a vegetable, fruit, or flower; learn about healthy eating habits; learn responsibility for taking care of a garden; work on math (measuring, counting, sorting) and science skills; work with members of the high school's Green Team and other community members; use the compost materials from cafeteria wastes; and, eventually, contribute to the local food pantry and school cafeteria (regulations being considered).

Lander Valley High School

A grant of this size will ensure the future of the garden in tangible ways. First, we plan to use the grant to help pay for an automated watering system, tied in to the football field's watering system. We should also build a fence in our little corner in order to have a completely enclosed garden space. Critters are abundant around here.

Lana'i High & Elementary School

We started our garden last year. We are very food insecure. More than 90 cents of every dollar is spent on food imported from out of state. In a disaster, our town would go hungry in less than a week.

Our long range goals include growing a substantial supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and raising chickens for eggs to supply our cafeteria, support students' families and/or to sell at the local Saturday farmers' market.

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