Lower Elementary

Grattan Elementary

The grant will allow us to acquire seeds, seedlings, plantings and additional tools, develop curriculum resources, install signage, and build a garden workspace for a new Victory Garden Classroom, in which students will grow and harvest edible plants. When our beloved school garden was razed in an ADA renovation, the school community mobilized to plan and build a bigger, more accessible garden and permanent outdoor classroom. The irrigation and physical structures for the project have been funded with bond money, but not plantings or educational materials.

Beechcroft High School

The mission of the community garden is: The Good Seed Community Garden is an effort put forth by both our church and the community members of Sharon Woods to unify and celebrate our neighborhood.

Since its inception, the Good Seed Community Garden has been partnering with the students at Beechcroft High School. Their service learning projects have enriched the community and the school, bringing fresh ideas and beautiful additions to the space.

Martin Luther King School

The King Learning Garden has many goals. We want our garden to provide a source of food for our local school community, but also offer a connection to the earth that inspires new ways to think, learn, and live. We want to provide positive benefits such as access to local food production and training, curriculum connection, increased learner engagement, movement, and student connection to the land. We would like to support students

Greendale Elementary School

Due to economic challenges and lack of community support, our school garden hasn't been used for the last two years and needs revitalizing. In October of this year we had 30 parents and community voluteers who helped us to clean up our garden site. The garden grant will help purchase tools, lumber and plants to revitalize and redo large garden beds for better students acces; fix the fence,update existing ponds by fixing the solar pump and rain barrel system.

W.T.Cooke Elementary School

Our main focus will be on sustainability through gardening, reducing, reusing, and recycling. Students will get to experience the pleasures of planning, growing, and consuming their own fresh vegetables and of producing, through the work of their own hands, food for others. They will also begin to understand the possibilities of recycling by transforming things that were considered trash into usable objects and valuable compost. We will make it a goal this year to use recycled or reclaimed items where ever possible.

Gibson Caldwell Elementary

Our after school garden club goals are for our kids to learn about basic gardening and nutrition, to conserve natural resources, practice ecology, experience the concept of community gardening and to take pride showing others their great work in the gardens. The after school gardening program will assist 80 children in improving their science scores as demonstrated by MAP and STARR standardized tests. Students as well as the community will benefit from organic gardening.

Ferry Pass Elementary School

Our goal is to teach positive nutrition habits through our school garden program. Numerous studies have shown that school garden programs can improve students' attitudes towards fruits and vegetables. The students will learn responsibility, leadership, team building, life science, problem solving skills, math skills, pride, confidence and self esteem.

Forestville Union School District

Our goal is to provide a garden experience that encourages and allows students and the school community to work together to create an outdoor learning adventure that grows good scholars, leaders, friends, and stewards of the earth! Children who use organizational and math skills to plan what to plant, and how to do it, become better scholars. Children who take on leadership responsibilities, such as teaching a group of younger students what a Three-Sisters garden is and how to plant one, practice leadership skills.

Forest Hills Elementary School

The first goal is to teach our 3-12 year-olds environmental awareness. We hope to teach our children to live a more sustainable life by learning how to care for an edible, sensory garden as we make connections to our STEM (Science Technology Engineering, and Math) curriculum. The edible, sensory garden will provide a school-wide, interactive activity that is on-going and meaningful for all students. Students will take ownership over the garden as they each take a part during the developmental and maintenance process.

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