Kindergarten

Hartwood Elementary School

The goal of the Hartwood Elementary School Garden is threefold: 1) to provide students a venue to make real-world connections to the concepts they are learning in the curriculum at school, 2) to give interested students and their families the opportunity to grow some of their own food and learn first hand how good fresh, local food can be, and 3) to reach out to the larger community and provide food support to the food bank at Hartwood Presbyterian Church.

Amerischools Tucson Academy

Our goal is to revitalize an existing garden space on our campus visible not only to staff, students and families but to the surrounding community as well. Our first step will be to install a vertical garden comprised of a Woolly School Garden package. This grant will allow our students to learn how to grow flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables with a Woolly School Garden, from planting the seed to harvesting the fruits of their labor. The garden will give us fresh healthy food for the kids to taste and take home.

AlSalam Day School

MISSION (March 2013)
To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality.

Blanche Sprentz

Our goal is to make the garden a living classroom that will benefit all the students and families at Blanche Sprentz School. This grant will allow us to add work spaces, tables and seating for the students. It will also get us started on a comprehensive composting program that will save us money on soil amendments and help us recycle in the cafeteria. We want to grow life long gardeners and healthy eaters. Students learn in many ways and one of the most successful and fulfilling is when they work hands on and take charge of their own environment.

Addison Elementary School

We have an established Garden Program at Addison Elementary School with a vibrant 17 year history. We are very concerned that a large percentage of our existing garden beds were originally constructed of pressure treated wood which makes us unable to allow the students to eat the fruits & veggies of their labors.- limiting the full impact and benefit of teaching the "farm to table" concept in a school garden setting. We are in the process of rebuilding or repurposing our existing garden beds to make them safe for edibles.

Antioch School

The goal of the Antioch School garden is to enrich the lives and learning of the children. The garden will not only be incorporated into the academic subjects, but will also be incorporated in artistic endeavors and involve children in physical activity to strengthen both muscles and neural pathways, and serve as a quiet space to process learning and connect with nature. The garden has existed since 1994. It has been used to varying degrees, but there have been significant barriers to it being more fully utilized.

Ursuline Academy

The Herb Garden at Ursuline Academy is an effort to provide an outdoor, hands on learning environment where students can experience a wide variety of activities that support lessons in health and nutrition, and science while being enhanced in a cross curricular experience in art, English and other subject areas. Some areas of study will include:
1.) Life cycles using vermiculture (a worm farm with Red Wigglers) and butterflies
2. ) Recycling by producing compost and vermiculutre to naturally fertilize the soil with waste plant and food products

Paul H. Cale Elementary

Our goal is to provide outdoor, engaging, authentic garden experiences that bring academic standards to life for our students. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate responsibility, collaborate on nurturing plants, understand basic principles of organic gardening, experiment, explore, investigate, wonder and appreciate the utility, beauty and resilient nature of plants. For example, one of our big projects will be to plant apples trees. Studying the science and history of apples is a core part of the kindergarten curriculum.

Maplewood-Richmond Heights Early Childhood Center

This grant will help continue to fund our on-going garden expenses. Our garden program is in it's 7th year and we currently serve 350+ children ages 3 to 7 with one hour of contact time per child, per week for 40 weeks per year.
The Seed to Table program goals are to:
Promote principles of sustainability and stewardship
Teach respect for nature and the environment
Teach the basic principles of organic gardening
Engage in hands-on exploration of food and nutrition
Emphasize healthy lifestyle choices

Bridgeport Elementary

Our primary goal is to educate the children and inspire them to eat healthier. We want them to learn where their food comes from and to take part in the process of growing their own food. There are far too many "picky" eaters, and we have seen how adventurous children can become with what they eat when they have worked in the garden to grow their food and experience vegetables they didn't even know about or were afraid to try. As a community, we feel a garden project will get people involved and bring the community together.

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