Lower Elementary

Palms Elementary

We need drip irrigation! This grant would make it possible to be more water wise. Our garden also needs shade. We have a lovely area in the middle of the garden with picnic tables that operates as our outdoor kitchen, but it isn't usable in the middle of the day when the sun is right on the garden (good for the plants, not for hot plastic tables and kids).

PASC - BCSSSD

Our campus serves the special needs of learners with Autism. In September we were granted permission to run the school garden (has been unused for two years). The garden will have multiple functions for our learners. It will be utilized as a vocational program for high school students, teach our learners an age appropriate leisure activity, enhance social skills, provide opportunties for desensitization and food exploration as well as meeting NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards for science, health and nutrition in a hands-on method.

Thomas Swift

Thomas Swift's garden will be a place for growing--growing healthy vegetables, community, curriculum, outdoor experiences, working together, social skills, non-verbal communication, education around nature, and experiences in play not isolated to metal, rubber, and plastic structures. Children have little time for free play anymore, and when children do have free time, it's often spent inside in front of the television or computers. Childhood and outdoor play are no longer synonymous--today, many children live what one play authority has referred to as a childhood of imprisonment.

Winter Hill Community School

Will be using the school garden to help educate students about healthy foods, healthy eating, agriculture, sustainability, and how to better understand the process of how the foods we eat are grown This grant will make it possible for students at our school to get more involved with local organizations within the community (IE... supermarkets, local farmers, food pantries, and other green organizations).

Our Lady Star of the Sea School

Our Lady Star of the Sea School has set up ambitious goals for student body. The majority of these ambitions rely on having a functioning and bountiful garden.The grant will help our school to realize many goals. The main objectives will be curriculum based as well as nutrition focused. Currently, we do not have a school lunch program. With the grant money, we will be able to further develop our pilot garden program towards a sustainable, self-sufficient operation.

Watson Elementary School

The goal of the community school garden is to educate students about sustainability practices. We focus on tying in the garden with school day academics and after school enrichment classes including healthy eating ad focus fitness. These activities are offered to students free of charge as part of a federal grant. The Whole Kids Foundation grant will allow us to continue funding our sustainability instructor over the next year and a half as well as purchase materials for the garden.

Spiritwood Manor

The gardens at Spiritwood Manor will make it possible for the students to utilize this communal space as a place to learn and socialize in a positive way with fellow peers and community members. The garden will be available to all children and their families who attend the Spiritwood Manor Site. As the site is on the grounds of Section 8 apartments there are plenty of families that could benefit from learning about the importance of health, nutrition, and community through a hands on Garden Project focusing on art, science, math, and health.

Spring Creek Elementary

The Todd County School District in Mission, SD is largely encompassed by the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. The reservation is mostly very rural and typically has the dubious distinction of having its major county, Todd, being included in most listings of the "top" 10 poorest counties in the US. Unemployment is epidemic throughout the reservation and the ensuing poverty brings a whole host of social problems along with it. Not the least of these is the affliction of being a food desert.

The Quaker School at Horsham

With this grant, we hope to expand our garden by at least 2 raised beds. Our garden has several goals: a hands-on science learning program; integrated cooperative learning experience; interdisciplinary curriculum. These goals all contribute to our philosophy that our students learn best by doing hands-on work in cooperative teams. These projects involve math, planning, critical thinking, collaboration, construction, as well as environmental science.

Hoover Elementary School

Hoover Elementary School is one of the public schools in Oakland, CA. Working with a student population that is primarily people of color and often economically disadvantaged and oppressed, our school strives to foster strong relationships between people to prepare the whole child – all our children - for future success while promoting health and wellness in and through our garden community. Essential to our core culture, we teach and model kindness, wellness, ownership, perseverance and curiosity.

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