Lower Elementary

MUSE School

Our garden has two main goals. The first is to educate and inspire our students to grow food and embrace a healthy lifestyle through proper nutrition. The second is to act as a resource for our community by providing access to free vegetables and knowledge to grow gardens. Our resident expert will teach and inspire our students to grow their own food. This will all be done with education intentionally built in to each step of the project. Building and supporting community is key to the success of our program.

Village Charter School

Our goal is to provide a fun and engaging outdoor space for students to learn about gardening, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and cooking, through hands-on activities. The garden is used as a learning laboratory, where we use every opportunity we have to help students understand where their food comes from and why it is so important for us to protect our environment and our bodies by choosing healthy foods. This grant will allow us to expand upon our current curriculum of garden education by creating a formal nutrition and cooking component.

Chattahoochee Elementary School

CES's goal is to develop a vegetable garden that can be utilized by students, faculty and staff; along with lunchroom presentation. We currently have an aesthetically pleasing garden, but our desire is to make it a true teaching garden where the community can benefit from its bounty and the children learn the importance of sustainability, health & nutrition, along with their standards for science, math, reading, and other curriculum introduced through the program.

Howard Drive Elementary

I am trying desperately to make a difference in as many children and community members as possible and share about a healthy lifestyle and how important it is for our minds and body. With other teachers at my school we are trying to teach the community how to eat healthier. By growing our own fruits and vegetables, excites the children. If we excite the children, they excite their parents. Recently, I had a discussion with one of our classes about growing a garden and they were already asking if we could have different salad dressings when we finally make our salad.

P.S 007 Samuel Stern

The garden at P.S 7 is managed and funded by Edible Schoolyard NYC. The goal of the garden at P.S. 7is to provide an organic, four-season growing space and outdoor classroom on school grounds where ESYNYC staff can teach an interdisciplinary curriculum; provide programming for students, families and community members; and train teachers and principals throughout New York City.

Wilshire Crest Elementary School

Wilshire Crest Elementary garden goal is to support an interdisciplinary experience of education through garden based learning in the outdoor living classroom. The garden provides economically disadvantage kids a chance to excell with hands on learning as an extension of classroom curricuplum in an outdoor classroom setting. Our student body are local students, with over 80% participating in the free and reduced lunch program. The project reinforces good eating habits from seed to table program as well as environmental stewardship.

windermere elementary school

The goal of the garden is to provide our school and community with an outdoor classroom / organic garden as an avenue to endless learning opportunities for children and adults alike. To learn about sustainable living and the importance of preserving the environment. Teaching everyone to take ownership of their health by understanding and promoting healthy eating habits thru the use of the garden crops in cooking classes and allowing them to participate in making their own food and tasting the results of their hard work.

Eisenhower Elementary

Eisenhower Elementary currently has no outdoor learning space. To bring the classroom outside, we plan to create a series of raised beds and a pollinator garden in a 300-square-foot vacant location between the school's main entrance and the playground.

Horseshoe Trails Elementary

The goal for the Horseshoe Trails garden is for all students to have an opportunity to experience gardening. For many of our students, this will be their first gardening experience and we hope to ignite a passion for future gardeners. We'd also like to encourage teachers to utilize the garden as a tool for scientific and multi-disciplinary learning. John Muir said, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he find it attached to the rest of the world." We believe the garden can be used to teach virtually any subject in a hands-on, meaningful way.

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