Kindergarten

GREEN Charter School

GREEN Charter's gardening goal is to deepen the connection our students have with nature.

Evergreen Country Day School

Our goal is to achieve a sustainable growing space which will serve as both a demonstration of gardening principles as well as a living laboratory to carryout investigations. Another goal would be to harvest food which would make its way to our school lunch salad bar and may be donated to our local food bank. In order to accomplish this goal, we have developed curriculum related to gardening, and have scheduled at least one science class per week, per grade to occur in the greenhouse.

Notasulga High School

Our garden has three goals:

1. To provide an outdoor laboratory for Elementary and High School Science courses
2. To augment nutrition programs existing on campus
3. To beautify campus and provide a source of pride for students and families in the community.

Green Chimneys School

We plan to continue to enhance our two organic gardens and greenhouse to ensure an innovative learning environment for more than 250 special needs students and a pioneering training site for the thousands of visitors whom visit each year interested in replicating our therapeutic gardening program. New York State educational standards are met through our individualized year-round curriculum which includes certified horticultural therapy, seed propagation, harvesting, plant anatomy and maintenance, food storage, canning, farm machinery, tool usage, naturopathy, aromatherapy and composting.

Ferguson-Easley Elementary

Our goal is to raise school pride. We are located in a district with a few a challenges. Many of our students have never had experience raising something from a seed and feeling good about watching a product grow...about nurturing a product. In fact, nurturing is what they get here at our school. In many cases it was our Title I school personnel that introduced the concept of nurturing to our elementary students. Our goal is to show how a person can work hard and feed themselves as a result of their work efforts and with any luck can feed others too.

Benjamin G.Brown School

Built in 2007, the Benjamin Brown garden is in an actively used part of the school yard beneath a tree, once a sapling, that has now grown to shade much of the area. The donated materials included untreated cedar boards, which have decomposed gradually and are now falling apart. This grant will allow us to redesign the layout of the garden to accommodate the new shade areas and the active walkways, as well as replace the broken beds with long-term, sustainable alternatives.

St. Martin's Episcopal School

The goal of the St. Martin's Community Garden is to involve students in an outdoor classroom setting in order to teach them the hands-on process of sustainable agriculture. The Community Garden Program is designed to teach students about and involve them in the practice of sustainable agriculture in order for them to gain a deeper appreciation for and understanding of the vital role these processes play in our daily lives. The purpose of the GardenSoxx is to make the garden relatively maintenance free, so that the students may spend more time learning about and nurturing their plants.

Hope Leadership Academy Charter School

Our garden's goal is to give our students the opportunity and responsibility to grow, maintain, harvest and enjoy their very own foods! Our students will be able to see the growth cycle, learn about garden care, cook and enjoy the produce from our school's garden. This grant will make it possible for our students to have first-time, hands-on experience with gardening. All of our students come from socioeconomically challenged households, many of whom only have the opportunity to eat breakfast at lunch because they are at school.

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