Kindergarten

Lincoln Elementary

The goal for our garden is to create a project that involves the community, teachers, and students in the common purpose of learning the benefits of locally grown produce and the advantages of having greater control over the foods that we consume. Students will engage in designing the garden, raising seedlings each planting season, organizing the planting arrangement, watering and weeding the garden, and practicing organic methods of maintaining the health of the plants.

Tamarack Waldorf School

Tamarack Waldorf School's School Garden goals include:
1. Helping our students create, support and sustain a community garden so they learn to connect with nature in engaging, nurturing and inspirational ways.
2. Strengthening indoor classroom curriculum and lessons through the integration and development of our garden.
3. Increasing our student's fruit and vegetable knowledge, preference and consumption.

Sherard Elementary School

Sherard Elementary School envisions a schoolyard garden that students and faculty show off with pride, not only because of its beauty but because it enables a whole new set of learning experiences for students. The school has the potential to enhance student learning outside of the classroom as much as it does inside. A curriculum-based school garden would serve as a living laboratory and outdoor classroom for subjects across the curriculum right in our own schoolyard.

C.T. Sewell

The school garden will serve as an outdoor classroom and living laboratory that will provide unique learning opportunities for students across the curriculum, including: science, math, language arts, environmental studies, health, and nutrition. Interdisciplinary approaches foster the talents and skills of all students while enriching the students' capacities of observation and thinking.

Piney Branch Elementary School

Almost half of the students at our school are low-income and need food assistance. Often food assistance means unhealthy processed food choices. Over the long-term this can lead to a lifetime of overweight and obese children. The changing Core Curriculum in the State of Maryland tries to improve efforts to teach nutrition and wellness in schools but still incentives are lacking. PBES believes we can offer to our students an opportunity to learn how where food comes from, how to grow food, how to harvest food and how to prepare and learn about healthy meal choices.

St.Anne's School of Annapolis

We have three basic goals for our edible garden. 1) to offer an experiential learning opportunity for students that will help integrate their classroom studies and research, 2) to help students experience the joy of growing and eating nutritional fruits and vegetables in order to establish lifetime habits of healthy eating, and 3)to help students experience the fulfilling wonder of sharing their produce with people who often do not have enough to eat.

Nut Swamp Elementary School

The goal of the Nut Swamp Elementary School Garden is help students learn about the relationship between healthy food, healthy bodies and a healthy Earth and to provide a place for the students to learn where real, whole food comes from. The grant will enable us to build a larger garden to accommodate our nearly 600 hundred students. The additional space will allow each grade level an area to create their own garden and grow their own vegetables and herbs.

Meeting Street Academy

As part of a non profit dedicated to creating a thriving local food system, education and demonstration about how food gets from 'seed to table' is an extremely important lesson. The garden at GrowFood Carolina gives students the opportunity to learn about soil, seeds, plants, and foods. When the student then learns about the activities at the warehouse, they start understand the full cycle of our food system, so they not only appreciate how to grow fresh fruit and veg, but also what to look for in their grocery store.

Jesse Sherwood Elementary

The goal of the garden at Sherwood School would be to engage the students in learning opportunities utilizing the garden. The garden will also be used to engage the parents, students and the community in order to create a strong bond as they plant and grow vegetables and flowers. Our primary goal is to increase students' understanding of and respect for nature. We would also like our students and the community to have a place where they can investigate, plan and nurture a garden. We envision a place that is designed, used and maintained by the children and the community.

Village Leadership Academy

Our edible garden allows students to grow their own food and learn about healthy and sustainable eating. Our after school cooking and gardening program and our hands on science program utilize the garden for both educational and practical purposes. The students cook with the food in the 10 garden boxes every week. Students are also encouraged to take some of the fresh vegetables and herbs home to share with their families. Our school

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