Lower Elementary

Monterey Bay Charter School

Currently our garden is used primarily for the 3rd grade curriculum in our school. The garden is small and we would like to expand the number of beds in the garden, build a small greenhouse and have enough shovels, rakes, and hoes of varying sizes so that the garden is usable by all of our grades. We would like to produce enough food to eventually use for school lunches. Currently we harvest vegetables to make a weekly "stone soup" for the 3rd grade to eat for lunch.

Roseville Community School

Our RCS Garden Program was developed to enhance the student's understanding of gardening and life science. We strive to provide a natural gathering place for children and the school community for lunch or exploration that helps children make connections to nature throughout the day.

Dr. A. R. Lord Elementary

The goal of our garden is to share the pleasures of being outdoors and growing food with our students. Children love being outdoors, with their hands in the soil, looking at different kinds of bugs, watching the seeds they planted growing, and discovering that, in fact, they can eat this growing thing. When students are interested and motivated in the subject at hand, learning comes easy. We believe that the experience and skills that students gain from working in a garden stays with them, and causes them to respect their food and the Earth throughout their lives.

Cottonwood Plains Elementary School

We will have six raised gardening beds (one for each grade level) which would allow us to have gardens specific to each curriculum.

Olmsted Early Childhood Center

Our goal is to bring generations together through the creation and development of our garden space while enhancing our curriculum with hands on learning. 300 Pre-K - K students in the Early Childhood Center and Olmsted Community Outreach'

Peggy Carnahan

PreK-2nd children will make regular use of cross curricular garden investigations including observations and recorded environmental measurements using their five senses and scientific tools in the project. The first crops of leafy greens could be grown prior to the start of truly hot weather this spring, followed by climbing warm weather crops of beans and cucumbers. Reseeding flowers bloom in the summer available for End Of Year Camp, summer science camp or summer gardening club.

Pioneer Elementary School

Our goal is to build a raised-bed vegetable garden so Pioneer students can have consistent access to hands-on outdoor environmental education experiences over the course of their elementary school career. Over the last ten years, environmental education (in the form of Outdoor School and field trips) has been eliminated from our district curriculum. We want to create a school garden to provide teachers with an accessible, engaging way to integrate environmental education into their curriculum.

OJ Neighbours Elementary

Though our community is a rural one, the students at this school are within the city limits and many are not exposed to gardening or farming. Though we have successfully launched a garden already, this grant will allow us to expand the project and increase access to fresh vegetables for students in our programs. We will increase opportunities to convene partners to deliver nutrition education, while still preserving one component of the existing program (selling the produce from our garden at the local Farmer's Market).

Milton Avenue School

Our goal is to to broaden the children's eating habits by planting, maintaining and harvesting a garden thus, teaching them through a hands on approach.

Crieve Hall Elementary School

Our vision for the Crieve Hall Elementary School Learning Garden is to provide a dynamic, interactive, hands-on learning experience that supports the sciences and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) (e.g., questioning, critical thinking) at every grade level. This garden will allow for class time outside while conducting science experiments, planting and tasting, and discussing, writing or drawing observations.

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