Kindergarten

White Plains Academy

The mission of Putnam County Schools is to produce individuals who serve and participate productively in society. The WPA garden works whole-heartedly toward that mission.

Teachers incorporate activities into daily lesson plans enabling them to reach students on another level, volunteers receive satisfaction from a successful service endeavor, and the community will ultimately become the benefactor from a project that has the potential to create gardens designed to provide abundant and healthy food choices for residents.

East Somerville Community School

We are starting our garden from scratch after a devastating fire severely damaged our school in December 2007. The old garden was destroyed along with much of the building. After nearly six long years of rebuilding, the school finally reopened this September.

Calvert Elementary

The goals of our community youth garden will be to impact 150 + youth, many of which have limited resources to healthy produce, with gardening skills, nutritional education and a general sense for the importance of supporting your local farmer. We will measure this success by utilizing the "Organ Wise Guys" curriculum, along with health and fitness testing. Students will be able to plan and organize local community night to showcase the produce they have grown, along with the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

William M. McGarrah

We recently had to reformat our garden area due to flooding issues. The goal of our garden is to incorporate math, science, health, social studies and art to engage students in learning the importance how food. Students will be able to see and cultivate life and gain an understanding of the life-cycle.

Hall Fletcher Elementary

This grant will enable us to comprehensively re-enforce the standards of nutrition learned in our 4th grade Nutrition Unit within the Common Core Science Standards. This grant will make it possible for 44 students, of a lower income status, to participate in a ̃

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School

Our Garden of Eat-Um has evolved from a vision to reality, providing food for our school cafeteria, local food pantry, and a school fundraiser, in addition to countless learning opportunities. The Garden has bloomed via donations, volunteerism, community support, and sweat equity. We began with 15 raised beds, and have more than doubled those. We also have a 35-by-35-foot St. Peter's Plot for potatoes, carrots, onions, and rutabagas for a school fundraiser and use in our school cafeteria, a large community herb garden, and a new community bed for asparagus and rhubarb.

Washington Elementary

We would like to continue operating our current school garden. This garden is rented from the community garden plots and used to produce vegetables for our students to sample. This grant will enable us to continue renting the garden, as well as, purchase seeds in the future. New gardening tools will also need to be purchased, due to a new school garden coordinator being in place.

Edward Devotion School

Our garden is primarily used as a way to enrich a variety of curricula, as well as a vehicle for opening up students' awareness of local food/plant growth and cycles. We built the beds three years ago with PTO funding and Brookline Parks Department support, and this year we have a local Brookline Education Foundation grant for teacher collaboration in using the garden and creating curriculum tools.

Swansboro Elementary School

Swansboro seeks creative and holistic ways to enrich the learning of our students while creating opportunities to improve the health of its students and the community. This garden provides a unique opportunity to accomplish a variety of goals in a focused coordinated way. Created as certified wildlife habitat, the garden helps urban youngsters unplug from media influences and connect with nature. It provides real-life examples of concepts from the natural sciences for teachers and fosters cooperative social action among students.

Rothenberg Academy

Goal: to offer hands-on experiential learning for students at Rothenberg Academy, with the opportunity to deepen their classroom lessons via the garden. You will help support a hub of green, agriculture and growth, as well as education and community interaction in this inner city neighborhood.

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