Kindergarten

Charles Ellis Montessori Academy

Our goal is to increase knowledge of whole foods for as many people as possible through our school gardens. We believe that providing this knowledge could lead to life-altering changes throughout the separate communities that make up Savannah. A vibrant school garden would allow us to introduce children to fresh produce that they may not have seen before, as well as teach them how to grow that produce in the urban setting in which they live. It would open the door to conversations about health.

Parish Episcopal School

The garden will become a community focal point, uniting parent volunteers, teachers, and students in tending to a living space together. At Parish, the Beasley STEM Center and Fleeger Family Learning Kitchen already set Parish apart nationally as a school with designated space to promote hands-on learning which equips students with the enduring skills as thinkers, collaborators, creators and communicators which they will need in order to be life-ready in a rapidly changing world. We know the addition of our outdoor garden will further enrich the learning experiences afforded our students.

Elbridge Gale Elementary School

After a hugely successful Gators Going Green Phase 1 Garden Event on Green Apple Day, we are planning our phase 2 projects. With the Whole Kids Foundation funding, we will add 5 floating hydroponic gardens, 10 Verti-Gro hydroponic units, create/enhance native butterfly gardens, and plant native fruit/shade trees. These gardens, trees and plants will be enjoyed by all students, teachers and community members. We want to ensure that our courtyard garden areas are utilized to their maximum potential.

Fellowship Christian Academy

We are a 100 percent minority school in an urban area. We have a small patch of land near our school that is suitable for a garden. We want to raise crops to contribute to the local food pantry and also to introduce our students and their parents to whole and fresh foods and whole and fresh food preparation. We will utilize part of our harvest for education and part of our harvest to contribute to the food pantry.

Combs Elementary

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A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary integrates the philosophies of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People into a model replicated at 1400+ schools worldwide. The model will be leveraged as students design, plant and teach other students in the garden.

Michigan Islamic Academy

The goal of our school garden is to help our students become excited about growing and eating locally grown food from organic sources. We are very committed to encouraging our students to adopt healthy eating habits, which we hope the grant will enable us to do by making it possible for us to grow our own vegetables. We also hope to foster the notion of responsibility in our younger students, as we intend to have each elementary classroom be responsible for their own section of the garden. Our plan is to integrate our gardens into the classroom.

Allamanda Elementary School

If our school is granted these funds, we can be self sustaining by purchasing tools and equipment to build simple structures needed in the garden/nature area such as garden beds, an observatory for a fruit tree area, in ground tool box, a garden fence and a greenhouse/ plant nursery. We will be purchasing child size garden gloves for the entire student body. We can also offer garden nursery materials for students to use, books and gardening guides for use by all classes during the health and wellness wheel to address student Q and A

Oak Hill Elementary School

Oak Hill Elementary's garden goals are to introduce gardening into the student culture to employ better health and a sense of community and pride for our gardening program. We hope that by expanding the students' knowledgeable it will encourage them to make healthier choices for the future. We would like to provide all students with the opportunity to garden and learn about ecology, botany, and how gardening can be used in other areas of their education like math and social studies.

Marshall Early Learning Center

The goal of the garden/outdoor classroom is for students to learn how to design, plant, care for, and harvest an organic fruit and vegetable garden. The space will have a weekly classroom rotation schedule, curriculum integration support, food service goals, and endless learning opportunities. This grant will make a regular harvest possible that will be used in our school lunch program to promote healthy choices and foster a connection to the food students eat.

Henry C Sanborn Elementary

The Sanborn School garden is a new addition to a community that excels at providing enrichment to the lives of its children. Started 2012 with just a few parents and some very excited 4th and 5th graders, the garden seeks to be a place where children can be an active part of learning process outside the classroom. A garden is a welcoming place for children of all ages and abilities offering every student the opportunity to be a part of it's growth during some point of their elementary school career if they so wish.

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