Lower Elementary

Fellowship Christian Academy

We are a 100 percent minority school in an urban area. We have a small patch of land near our school that is suitable for a garden. We want to raise crops to contribute to the local food pantry and also to introduce our students and their parents to whole and fresh foods and whole and fresh food preparation. We will utilize part of our harvest for education and part of our harvest to contribute to the food pantry.

Combs Elementary

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A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary integrates the philosophies of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People into a model replicated at 1400+ schools worldwide. The model will be leveraged as students design, plant and teach other students in the garden.

Michigan Islamic Academy

The goal of our school garden is to help our students become excited about growing and eating locally grown food from organic sources. We are very committed to encouraging our students to adopt healthy eating habits, which we hope the grant will enable us to do by making it possible for us to grow our own vegetables. We also hope to foster the notion of responsibility in our younger students, as we intend to have each elementary classroom be responsible for their own section of the garden. Our plan is to integrate our gardens into the classroom.

Allamanda Elementary School

If our school is granted these funds, we can be self sustaining by purchasing tools and equipment to build simple structures needed in the garden/nature area such as garden beds, an observatory for a fruit tree area, in ground tool box, a garden fence and a greenhouse/ plant nursery. We will be purchasing child size garden gloves for the entire student body. We can also offer garden nursery materials for students to use, books and gardening guides for use by all classes during the health and wellness wheel to address student Q and A

Oak Hill Elementary School

Oak Hill Elementary's garden goals are to introduce gardening into the student culture to employ better health and a sense of community and pride for our gardening program. We hope that by expanding the students' knowledgeable it will encourage them to make healthier choices for the future. We would like to provide all students with the opportunity to garden and learn about ecology, botany, and how gardening can be used in other areas of their education like math and social studies.

Marshall Early Learning Center

The goal of the garden/outdoor classroom is for students to learn how to design, plant, care for, and harvest an organic fruit and vegetable garden. The space will have a weekly classroom rotation schedule, curriculum integration support, food service goals, and endless learning opportunities. This grant will make a regular harvest possible that will be used in our school lunch program to promote healthy choices and foster a connection to the food students eat.

Henry C Sanborn Elementary

The Sanborn School garden is a new addition to a community that excels at providing enrichment to the lives of its children. Started 2012 with just a few parents and some very excited 4th and 5th graders, the garden seeks to be a place where children can be an active part of learning process outside the classroom. A garden is a welcoming place for children of all ages and abilities offering every student the opportunity to be a part of it's growth during some point of their elementary school career if they so wish.

J.A. Coles Elementary

Our goal is to continue growing the garden we currently have. We would like to expand the greenhouse we built last year by doubling the amount of seedlings we grow there. The vegetable garden, as it stands now, is only being taken care of by the first grade classes. We would like to expand this to at least another grade, perhaps the second and/or third grade classes. This would require creating additional vegetable beds and using the added greenhouse space to start the vegetable plants.

Washington Elementary

Our ultimate goal is to help create an interest in gardening and to help students gain the knowledge to plant and maintain a garden on their own. Another goal is to help to create a healthy future for students and use this as a starting point for healthy lifestyle initiatives that will spread into the community. During the summer months, with student volunteers, we donate the produce to the local food pantry and homeless shelter. This is one way that we can ensure that the benefits of the garden are felt by many members of the community.

Delaware School for the Deaf

Our goal is to teach our children using hand on approach. The school garden are integrated into different subjects (read below) and character education. They learn best through visual and hand on activities. They involved smell, sight, taste and touch.
They learn why it is important to take care of the garden so vegetables can grow bountiful and healthy. It requires attention, and commitment. It teaches children to apply same philiosophy to real life.

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