Kindergarten

Shepardson Elementary School STEMs of Learning

Students gain knowledge about vegetables and fruits which may improve attitudes toward these foods and lead to healthier choices and a greater appreciation for how their food is grown. The garden creates an appreciation for teamwork,  patience and responsibility. Students are empowered by engaging in hands on learning and practicing scientific method.

Sand Point Elementary School

Creating a community where children empower themselves with healthy lifestyle choices rooted in sustainable agricultural practices. The garden program will instruct on best practices in urban agriculture and foster thinking on cultural and socio-economic issues of global and local food cultivation. We hope that by enabling them to share the bounty of their harvest with the community a lifelong commitment to sustainable food growing and healthful eating will hold.

ESYNOLA, Samuel J. Green Charter School

As the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans' founding garden, the growing spaces at Samuel J. Green Charter School wrap around the school, encircling its students with reminders that the natural world inspires curiosity, and that beauty is the language of caring. Whether it's finding a quiet space in the butterfly garden to reflect, keeping an eye on the fruit ripening each day in the side yard orchard, or getting hands in the dirt in the main garden beds, Green's gardens inspire exploration and the sense that something truly wonderful might be just around the corner, or under the next leaf.

PS11 The William T. Harris School

Our garden's main goal is to connect our urban students to the natural world and to introduce gardening with edible plants. Outside of school the PS11 elementary students have very little access to interact with nature and few have participated in growing food. The school garden successfully provides tastings and provides a small amount of vegetables and herbs to the school kitchen. We grow inside in the classrooms, on the 2nd floor roof space and around the play area downstairs. We have a well established compost and rainwater catchment.

Prairie Crossing Charter School

Prairie Crossing Charter School has over 40 raised beds on our campus.  Each classroom has access to several raised beds, where they grow crops chosen by the teachers and students.  

The school hosts a monthly Farm to Table lunch.  At this event, crops harvested from our campus gardens are incorporated into a healthy menu.  Students present to the community about how they grew the featured crops, and are able to taste the fruits of their labor.

Polaris at Ebert

Our goal is to further integrate the garden into the cirriculum and the community and to extend our growing season. We plan to implement DUG's Connecting Generations Program which matches older adult mentors and our students in the garden environment. These mentors will support the staff and parent volunteers in teaching various subjects in the garden. To extend our growing season we require additional grow labs to start from seed and hoop houses to get plants into the garden sooner.

Plum Cove Elementary

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days. 

Park School

We have had a set back in our garden this year with our composting as well as our limited budget for planting in a school year. We are re-building a better system of seed gathering composting harvest and output as well as addressing our sick Apple trees which could be feeding our students on a regular basis. This money could help us re-organize this year and any extra harvests perhaps could help fundraise for the future of our garden as well as well as becoming self-sustainable.

Olivia Park Elementary School

Our garden goal is to provide our students and families with a safe healthy and inspired learning environment. We want our students and families to be active participants in our garden and benefit by enjoying the harvest and healthy eating at a time many of our families are financially struggling. This grant will allow our garden to continue to be self sustaining. Having a shed and tools of our own will help take our garden to the next level.

Marlinton Elementary Graduating Gardens

By establishing a school garden program it will not only benefit the students but the whole community. We hope students will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of where food comes from how it's grown and a personal desire to be healthy through eating well and exercising. We hope this excitement and enthusiasm transfers to parents and together they will make positive changes by preparing meals with more wholesome ingredients cooking at home or starting a home garden.

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