Kindergarten

Martin Luther King Elementary

We all know that healthy students learn better. Unfortunately, our students are missing the connection that good nutrition is essential for good health and good health is essential for performing your best. Our project is to create a garden where we will not only teach our students how to grow food, but also how to live a healthy life. Our garden will provide a concrete opportunity to reinforce pride of doing something on their own and the life long benefits that good nutrition has on their bodies.

academy of world languages

Our school population consists of many refugee families from at least 40 countries. There are over 40 different dialects spoken. It is our goal to develop an international garden showcasing the many different cultures of our school community by sharing different plants and vegetables. At the same time, showing the students where food comes from. Many don't know things grow in the ground. They think it comes from the corner grocery store. We would like to share the produce with the school students and families and possibly selling our wares to the teachers (if successful harvest).

South Kilbourne Elementary

South Kilbourne Goals for the Learning Garden is to:
provide an open door space for students to explore nature through inquiry.
use the space to integrate all subjects across the curriculum.
help students maintain focus by spending time outdoors.

Cleveland School

Goals of our garden and Ecoliteracy program are to: 1) teach ecological principles through full engagement in the garden; learning is project-based and organically integrates academic subjects (science, math, language arts, art) and social skills (communication, critical thinking, problem solving) 2) develop respect, responsibility, and sense of wonder for the natural world 3) help students bridge differences (history, cultures, age), build community, foster patience, thoughtfulness, generosity, and stewardship.

Manhasset Public Schools

Our gardens' goals are two fold:
On an individual level (children/teachers/parents), Planet Manhasset seeks to
connect people to nature, to foster awareness of healthy nutrition (including fresh vegetables and herbs in one's diet), and sustainable organic gardening practices to help protect our environment from unnecessary contaminants.

Glenfeliz Elementary

Glenfeliz Farm will allow us to expand our garden instruction from a few select classrooms to our entire school. With childhood obesity at alarming rates, we believe that health and nutrition instruction within our school is a vital step to help prepare our students for a lifetime of healthy habits. The farm to table nature of this garden will also allow us to open our garden to more community volunteers and to connect with our community on a greater level through our neighborhood farmer's market and outreach to our local restaurants.

The Village School

Our garden is a very lively part of our school community. One of our more immediate goals is to improve the efficiency of volunteer efforts, and make the garden more self sustaining. Like many school gardens in our region, irrigation is critical in the summer, and volunteers have poured many hours into summer watering. A reliable system will also allow us to cultivate more of our newly expanded garden beds. We also hope to lengthen our growing season and reduce the cost of vegetable starts with a moveable greenhouse.

Broad Acres Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to be a living classroom, where our students can build their background knowledge and learn about the interdependence of the natural world through engaging, authentic learning activities. Our students' lessons in the garden will be integrated with their reading, writing, science, health, and math curricula. Students will plant, tend, observe, write about, harvest, and eat vegetables from the garden.

Commerce Elementary

Our garden was started 3 years ago and consists of 17 raised bed areas. Our goal is to provide an outdoor classroom space which enriches our students knowledge about healthy eating decisions, as well as providing an exciting educational resource for many other subjects. Our gardening tools and supplies are currently overflowing out of a dilapidated and water logged plastic deck box. We would like to purchase and build a 10'X10' shed to provide a dry, safe and secure way of storing our resources.

Langford Elementary School

The Garden Project will achieve two goals:

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