Lower Elementary

sharon elementary

Our goal is to offer the entire school community a venue in which they can engage in activities that beautify their school, support learning, and provide food to our critical needs families and the Friendship Trays program. Create a volunteer network for kids and parents to get involved together to help extend positive food attitudes and choices into the home. The garden will offer students a fun setting in which to practice skills of planning, goal-setting, and patience, life skills that are inextricably linked to gardening.

D.U.E. Season Charter School

With D.U.E. Season Charter School's garden, we seek to engage students in multiple areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. This school garden project will enhance a program that will provide nutrition education and sustainable agricultural practices. Through this outdoor classroom, students will be able to take away a number of important lessons from subjects that they would normally learn indoors.

Buena Vista Horace Mann

The BVHM garden was created in 2011 to accomplish 5 goals:
* Bring learning to life in an outdoor classroom
* Support science in a public schools
* Provide students with direct access to nature in an urban environment
* Foster 21st-century learning that emphasizes environmental sustainability and innovation
* Deliver standards-based, outdoor science education to public school students

Crossway Community Montessori School

The goal of the garden grant would be to invest in three Cold Frame Greenhouses, seeds and potting soil for them. These greenhouses would enable the school to grow vegetables such as lettuce and spinach during the winter months. The garden part of the curriculum would then be active all four seasons and would complement the three existing outside gardens. The produce from the greenhouses would be utilized in all cooking for the classes, and the 100 students in the school could observe, maintain, and cook with the produce from the greenhouses.

Palmer Elementary

Our goal is to incorporate gardening and fresh produce year-round for our school community. Currently, we participate in the Garden to Cafeteria program with Denver Public Schools. We have been able to harvest fresh vegetables for our cafeteria over a two to three month period, but would love to continue involving the students in healthy, school-grown produce through the entirety of the school year. We recently had a green house donated by a community partner and are very excited to use this resource to meet our goals.

White Plains Academy

The mission of Putnam County Schools is to produce individuals who serve and participate productively in society. The WPA garden works whole-heartedly toward that mission.

Teachers incorporate activities into daily lesson plans enabling them to reach students on another level, volunteers receive satisfaction from a successful service endeavor, and the community will ultimately become the benefactor from a project that has the potential to create gardens designed to provide abundant and healthy food choices for residents.

East Somerville Community School

We are starting our garden from scratch after a devastating fire severely damaged our school in December 2007. The old garden was destroyed along with much of the building. After nearly six long years of rebuilding, the school finally reopened this September.

Calvert Elementary

The goals of our community youth garden will be to impact 150 + youth, many of which have limited resources to healthy produce, with gardening skills, nutritional education and a general sense for the importance of supporting your local farmer. We will measure this success by utilizing the "Organ Wise Guys" curriculum, along with health and fitness testing. Students will be able to plan and organize local community night to showcase the produce they have grown, along with the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

William M. McGarrah

We recently had to reformat our garden area due to flooding issues. The goal of our garden is to incorporate math, science, health, social studies and art to engage students in learning the importance how food. Students will be able to see and cultivate life and gain an understanding of the life-cycle.

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