Kindergarten

Birchview School

The Birchview Elementary's greenhouse/garden has a two goals. The first goal would be to help introduce and educate students to where their food comes from and how it is grown. Many children today go to the grocery store and buy their foods with their parents or caregivers, but they never really learn where it is actually coming from.

Downes (John R.) Elementary

The goals of the Downes garden program (DIG - Downes Involvement Garden) are to connect science learning with other parts of the curriculum including math, reading, writing, health, and physical education. The garden brings real-world, authentic learning to math, science, literacy, and health classes! In addition to academic learning, gardening allows students to develop confidence, patience, cooperative learning skills, and a love for nature.

Village Elementary School

We have many goals in mind for the Village Elementary School garden. It will be used to help introduce and reinforce lessons across a range of academic subjects. It will foster a dialogue about eating nutritious food and adopting other healthy habits. It will facilitate teamwork among students, parents, staff and community partners. And it will be a teaching tool for the community at large, to encourage our neighbors to reap the benefits of planting their own backyard gardens.

Providence Englewood Charter School

The goal of the garden is twofold. First, we would like to teach the students of Providence Englwood Charter School (PECS) about where their food comes from and secondly, give the children the opportunity to work with their hands and produce something that has a tangible benefit.

Friends' Central School

The goals of this project include having the children learn the value of cooperation and the need for involvement in community activities. We want them to recognize the value of stewardship of the land and the environment around them. We want them to become aware of the benefits of growing and eating organic food. A further goal is to integrate this gardening experience with the Lower School curriculum. Through this experience we would like them to know that our food comes from the earth, and plants and not a manufacturing plant.

Ray Bjork Learning Center

The Ray Bjork Learning Center has a very unique population that is comprised of Special Education Pqreschool, HeadStart, and Gifted and Talented students. With funding from this grant, students will be able to design and implement an outdoor learning garden that is accessible to all students. This is a way to bring these diverse populations together.

Darwin Elementary

The mission of the garden is to create a portrait of the diverse student body inside through the plants grown, signage created and love shown in its care. Our garden would proudly sit in front of the school with thriving vegetables and herbs with hand-painted signs in Spanish, Italian and English.

Highlands Elementary School

On October 29, 2012, during Hurricane Sandy our town, Highlands, New Jersey, suffered previously never experienced damage to homes, businesses, trees, shrubs, and surrounding landscapes. It is our hope that constructing our garden and watching it

Alfred Lima, Sr. Elementary School

We anticipate that the Lima School Garden's goal will be multifold; first it will serve as a learning center for students in several academic and social content areas. Teachers will use the garden as a living classroom and will work with the Genesis Center Culinary Instructor to plan lessons that touch upon sustainability, history, and a host of other topics. As a community agency that serves adult students we understand the importance of addressing individual learning styles and intelligences. The garden will also serve as a positive community asset.

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