Lower Elementary

Manhasset Public Schools

Our gardens' goals are two fold:
On an individual level (children/teachers/parents), Planet Manhasset seeks to
connect people to nature, to foster awareness of healthy nutrition (including fresh vegetables and herbs in one's diet), and sustainable organic gardening practices to help protect our environment from unnecessary contaminants.

Glenfeliz Elementary

Glenfeliz Farm will allow us to expand our garden instruction from a few select classrooms to our entire school. With childhood obesity at alarming rates, we believe that health and nutrition instruction within our school is a vital step to help prepare our students for a lifetime of healthy habits. The farm to table nature of this garden will also allow us to open our garden to more community volunteers and to connect with our community on a greater level through our neighborhood farmer's market and outreach to our local restaurants.

The Village School

Our garden is a very lively part of our school community. One of our more immediate goals is to improve the efficiency of volunteer efforts, and make the garden more self sustaining. Like many school gardens in our region, irrigation is critical in the summer, and volunteers have poured many hours into summer watering. A reliable system will also allow us to cultivate more of our newly expanded garden beds. We also hope to lengthen our growing season and reduce the cost of vegetable starts with a moveable greenhouse.

Broad Acres Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to be a living classroom, where our students can build their background knowledge and learn about the interdependence of the natural world through engaging, authentic learning activities. Our students' lessons in the garden will be integrated with their reading, writing, science, health, and math curricula. Students will plant, tend, observe, write about, harvest, and eat vegetables from the garden.

Commerce Elementary

Our garden was started 3 years ago and consists of 17 raised bed areas. Our goal is to provide an outdoor classroom space which enriches our students knowledge about healthy eating decisions, as well as providing an exciting educational resource for many other subjects. Our gardening tools and supplies are currently overflowing out of a dilapidated and water logged plastic deck box. We would like to purchase and build a 10'X10' shed to provide a dry, safe and secure way of storing our resources.

Langford Elementary School

The Garden Project will achieve two goals:

Lockwood Elementary School

The goal of our garden is for it to be an educational and welcoming space that students and teachers feel comfortable using. We are so proud of our current garden, but in such a big space we have plenty of room for expansion. We are excited to create an "outdoor classroom" space and build a few more beds. We are also excited to put up the hoop house that was recently donated to us. We hope that with these changes, every grade can be involved in planting a garden bed and that teachers will feel better about using the garden as a teaching space.

Elizabeth Baldwin

The goal is to help local low-income urban children learn how to grow vegetables, develop a taste for them, and ultimately be able to help steer their families toward them in order to combat childhood obesity in the community. Additionally, the garden will be used as a site where science and math lessons can be taught. Ultimately, we hope it will be a community gathering place- where parent/community volunteers come to spend time outdoors with their children.

Valley View Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to help educate our children and their families in understanding how their food is grown and how they can use it to learn healthy ways to use it. We want to expose them to new varieties of foods and to appreciate the need for eating healthy and making good choices.

Deroche Elementary School

The medicine wheel garden will be for reflection and healing in our community. It symbolizes the inter-connectectedness of all living things. The pillars of harmony, respect and balance make it an invaluable teaching tool in our predominant aboriginal community. We also encourage families to come and sit and reflect at the garden, to help be a part of creating something significant and long-lasting that will benefit all the community and teach our children about their culture. We anticipate school and community activities and ceremonies around the Medicine Wheel.

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