High School

Eden Autism Services

The goal of our Green Thumbs for Autism garden program is to offer a unique teaching opportunity for our students, all of whom have autism. With the help of their teachers, students learn to plant, water, weed, prune, harvest & compost waste from vegetables planted in the garden, as well as take inventory & create shopping lists used for trips to local businesses to purchase plants & supplies.

Holt Middle School

The garden was created to supply local, organic food to the cafeteria to improve student nutrition; to give students opportunities for experiential learning and application of ideas learned in the classroom; and to connect students with their families, role models, and community.

Downtown College Prep

80% of our student at Downtown College Prep qualify for free or reduced lunch programs. We have started an environmental science program at DCP with help from CNGF. We plan on collaborating with CNGF on our senior projects for our new environmental science class. We have already started a garden project this year and hope to expand the number of beds available for planting. We also have a garden club. We need more beds to support the maximum numbers of students in the club. This grant will fund new garden plants, mulch and materials.

June Jordan School for Equity

June Jordan School for Equity has an existing but underutilized garden. This funding will enable the school to continue its participation in the Schoolyard to Market program and thus ensure fuller use of their site. They will perform hands-on work in the school garden, take field trips to the farmers market and local farms, learn from market experts, and sell their produce at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

St. Stephen's Academy at Glade Run Lutheran Services

Glade Run Gardens serves as a therapeutic, vocational, and educational program for children throughout Western Pennsylvania. Students at St. Stephen's, Glade Run's private licensed school, participate in horticulture programming as part of their curriculum, learning about plants and the natural environment and developing a love of nature. For children in residential treatment at Glade Run for emotional health issues, the gardens serve still other purposes: horticulture therapy and a vocational program.

Hoffman Estates High School

The goals are to 1) engage our diverse population of students on the importance of good food choices to aide against childhood obesity 2) collaborate with the Science, Math, Health, Family Consumer Science, Applied Technology, and the Special Education departments to show how building and maintaining a garden connects to multiple aspects of education 3) update and organize our greenhouse to plant and maintain an assortment of plants in the fall and winter that will be replanted outside in the spring and summer 4) build raised beds to transplant the plants from the greenhouse to raised beds

West Adams Preparatory High School

The goal of the Teaching Garden is to shift the way students think about food. Through interactive programing and project-based learning students will increase their appreciation and understanding of agriculture, nutrition, and the food system. Teachers will utilize garden-themed lessons to teach 180 students nutrition, science and other subjects. The school Garden Club will teach students how to plant seeds, nurture growing plants, harvest produce and understand the value of good eating habits.

Manual Arts High School

The goal of the Teaching Garden is to shift the way students think about food. Through interactive programing and project-based learning students will increase their appreciation and understanding of agriculture, nutrition, and the food system. Teachers will utilize garden-themed lessons to teach 180 students nutrition, science and other subjects. The school Garden Club will teach students how to plant seeds, nurture growing plants, harvest produce and understand the value of good eating habits.

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