Lower Elementary

Sugarland Elementary School

This garden has many goals; community building, environmental awareness, healthy eating, as well as outdoor activity and education. The garden offers the students of Sugarland Elementary a safe environment where they can be excited about learning in new and different ways about so much more than is contained in a regular curriculum. The garden will also offer students in this Title 1 school, a window into health, that they may not have access to otherwise, the kind of opportunity that will change the course of a students life.

Almond-Bancroft School

The goal of Almond-Bancroft's school garden is to combine education of sustainable practices with a service learning environment for bettering the education of our rural community. Many families in our district are impacted by the agriculture industry, but don't have the knowledge and tools to make good choices when it comes to their production or consumption of agriculture. We are hoping to help families make nutritional choices while helping the school teach a new generation of farmers.

Frostwood Elementary

The Goal of the Frostwood Elementary Vegetable Garden/Outdoor Learning Classroom is to provide staff and students (Kindergarten to 5th Grade) with the opportunity for hands-on learning in the garden that complements learning in subject areas such as Math, Science, Health and Nutrition, Art, Social Studies, etc. through enhanced curriculum experiences. Experiential learning in a garden and outdoor classroom will enhance student academic performance, while teaching life-long lessons about the importance of nutrition and health.

Cumming Elementary

Our goal this year is to enhance our gardens to provide food for community food banks and to feed students in our school cafeteria. We plant and harvest vegetables year round; however, we want to increase our offerings by planting a strawberry bed, blueberry, thornless blackberry, and raspberry bushes; and several fruit trees. The Whole Foods grant will be used to fund this portion of our gardens.

Woodland Star Charter School

We hope to enhance our garden with this grant by building a cob bench and oven. The bench will provide protection for the garden and a wonderful place to sit and observe/enjoy it. The oven will create a central gathering place for our many school festivals and a wonderful opportunity for students to cook nutritious foods gathered directly from the garden. To support use of the oven, we plan to grow crops that will be utilized with the oven, including tomatoes, basil, peppers, herbs and a host of vegetables to roast.

Hiawatha Leadership Academy

The goals of our school garden are to give our scholars a sense of where food comes from and how much effort it takes to produce quality food, to inspire a passion for gardening, and create greater sustainability in the urban context. At Hiawatha Academy, we believe in the importance of providing scholars real time and hands-on opportunities to connect their experiences to curriculum in the classroom.

Jane Addams K-8

Our garden goals are primarily to make a garden environment easily accessible to children at our school and to families in the neighborhood. JA K-8 is in an urban setting serving a large immigrant population with English as a second language. We have a high rate of free and reduced lunch and many families are living in apartments withhout access to garden space. The garden has gates that are always open so that it is accessible to any one at anytime. We see it as an important resource to help families feel welcome at the school.

GREEN Charter School

GREEN Charter's gardening goal is to deepen the connection our students have with nature.

Evergreen Country Day School

Our goal is to achieve a sustainable growing space which will serve as both a demonstration of gardening principles as well as a living laboratory to carryout investigations. Another goal would be to harvest food which would make its way to our school lunch salad bar and may be donated to our local food bank. In order to accomplish this goal, we have developed curriculum related to gardening, and have scheduled at least one science class per week, per grade to occur in the greenhouse.

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