Lower Elementary

Oak Hill Elementary

Oak Hill Elementary is a Title I, turnaround, and full-service school. We are unique among Title I schools in that our partnership with both Westside Full Service and Team Up allow us to provide our children and their families with all the services they need beyond the academic realm. A school garden will allow us to host after school programs for the families we service focused on healthy eating and home gardening. Additionally, our school serves many special needs children in our six self-contained Communication and Social Skills classrooms.

Chester Goodridge Elementary School

We want a working science garden where all students at Goodridge Elementary School can discover the flora and fauna of the area in addition to the soil and climate needed to grow them. Students will also become acquainted with the plants indigenous to the area as well as how these plants can sustain life. Students will be hands on in the planting, care and utilization of the vegetation including the contribution of fresh vegetables to the Backpack Buddies Program at our school which provides weekend meals to our students who suffer from food instability.

Urban Ventures

We have been gifted with a greenhouse. It will be moved from its' existing site to our campus, and put to use growing fresh produce and herbs for use in our kitchen, with students and families to learn more about nutritious eating as well as for our Learning Lab students to learn the science of plant life and growth. This grant will provide seed, pots, and tools for 95 students to be hands-on in the greenhouse, year-round.

McKinley Elementary School

Our goal for the garden is to install and maintain a garden that provides our students and their families with extraordinary opportunities to learn about gardening, science, and nutrition. We want our garden to be an outdoor classroom where teachers and students learn about plants and health, in an engaging and hands on way. Our goal is for teachers to use the garden to teach exciting lessons to their classes, and to use the food the students grow to get them excited about healthy nutrition.

Old Mill School

Our school garden is just getting started. Kandee Adams, school principal is very much in support of the garden. The two garden coordinators have received approval and support from several of the other teachers, the PTA, our community partner, Green Jeans Garden Supply and the school community. We are excited to get the garden growing! Many active parents have expressed interest in helping the garden become a success and symbol of school unity.

Cedarbrae School

Our goal is to have students become engaged in their learning and to have the opportunity to experience it through meaningful and memorable tasks. In doing so taking ownership for the garden and willingly take on the responsibility to maintain their efforts. This grant will help us to re-establish our outdoor classroom and garden area as a focal point of our school community. It will be open to parents and neighbours as a place they can come to visit and share knowledge.

Hartwood Elementary School

The goal of the Hartwood Elementary School Garden is threefold: 1) to provide students a venue to make real-world connections to the concepts they are learning in the curriculum at school, 2) to give interested students and their families the opportunity to grow some of their own food and learn first hand how good fresh, local food can be, and 3) to reach out to the larger community and provide food support to the food bank at Hartwood Presbyterian Church.

Amerischools Tucson Academy

Our goal is to revitalize an existing garden space on our campus visible not only to staff, students and families but to the surrounding community as well. Our first step will be to install a vertical garden comprised of a Woolly School Garden package. This grant will allow our students to learn how to grow flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables with a Woolly School Garden, from planting the seed to harvesting the fruits of their labor. The garden will give us fresh healthy food for the kids to taste and take home.

AlSalam Day School

MISSION (March 2013)
To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality.

Blanche Sprentz

Our goal is to make the garden a living classroom that will benefit all the students and families at Blanche Sprentz School. This grant will allow us to add work spaces, tables and seating for the students. It will also get us started on a comprehensive composting program that will save us money on soil amendments and help us recycle in the cafeteria. We want to grow life long gardeners and healthy eaters. Students learn in many ways and one of the most successful and fulfilling is when they work hands on and take charge of their own environment.

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