Lower Elementary

Roaring Fork High School

Goals: teach youth how to grow food, prepare it, eat well & carry this knowledge home to their families to improve health; create a model project environmental for our high altitude region to grow food year round with a low carbon footprint; provide food to high school lunch program; & create a collaborative, hands-on education model to spread this education to all ages. In 2013 the college will use our orchard to teach Sustainable Agriculture and create a forest garden permaculture model.

Lakeland Elementary School

Last year we initiated construction of a hoop house with the hope that our students could have better access to our school garden during the school year. We built it over our garden and are now in the next phase of the project where we have been able to start connecting the blower system and automated vents to a battery charged by a solar panel. We need to finish that and update our composting system, along with organizing storage and work space. We also need to start a savings fund for the eventual replacement of the plastic and other maintenance.

Bartle Elementary

Highland Park's three school gardens (Irving for the youngest grades, Bartle Elementary, and the Middle/High School garden) are a collaboration between a municipal entity, Sustainable Highland Park, and Edible Gardens, a local grass roots initiative. Together, they are committed to achieving a plan for a healthy environment, healthy people, a strong, engaged community and social fairness and equity. This initiative builds participation and collaboration between the schools and the larger community, with a focus on health and wellness, nutrition, and food security.

Dowdell Middle Magnet School

Dowdell Middle Magnet School is the only magnet school in Hillsborough County with the theme of environmental studies. Our curriculum is based on global sustainability. Our goal is to expose students to alternative gardening methods. Allow students to experiment, compare and contrast between traditional soil garden, organic garden, predatory bug garden, hydroponics, aquaponics, and a recirculating system called barrel ponics. We want students to understand that not all plants need soil to grow or a large area of land. We also incorporate alternative sources fo water for our plants.

Dual Immersion Academy

In Fall 2009, Dual Immersion Academy (DIA) broke ground on its first edible schoolyard garden. The DIA community rallied together to build garden beds and fill them with soil and seedlings. We are close to reaching our original goal: to provide a rich educational experience of growing and eating whole foods.

Crescent Academy

Crescent Academy's goals for the garden project are primarily to expose our students to the integral connection between gardening, community, environmental awareness and the ability to draw real world connections. Earth Science is a vital aspect of Crescent Academy's science curriculum. Giving students the ability to increase kinetic learning skills through gardening will not only increase student achievement but more importantly bridge learning gaps.

John P. Parker School

John P. Parker is an urban school located on 13 acres in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Madisonville.  The Madisonville community is identified as an urban food desert with no walkable access to fresh produce. John P. Parker students eat the majority of their meals at school. All 358 students receive free breakfast and lunch through the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program.  Dinner is provided to all students enrolled in the afterschool program and students who are food insecure over weekends are given a bag of food, “Power Packs” every Friday.

Coleman Elementary School

Coleman's goal in creating a lush and verdant vegetable & herb garden on school grounds is three-fold: 1) we wish to drive home the connection between food and personal health for our vulnerable students, many of whom are at-risk for suffering the long-term complications associated with poor nutrition; 2) we wish to solidify classroom learning in subjects such as math and science by creating a venue for students to tangibly apply academic concepts; and 3) we wish to create an alternative recreational activity for students to engage in during recess, in our after school program, and over

Argonne Year Round Elementary

Argonne School received a Garden Design Grant from CNGF. Our design includes many native edible plants. This grant will provide funds to build the garden. It will pay our docents to teach lesson plans that meet CA science standards. CNGF has created eco-literacy lesson plans for the outdoor classroom (ELSEE). We invite guest chefs to plan food harvesting events. This grant will assist with community outreach and help develop partnerships and collaborations within the local community. Argonne School is an underserved community with little space for urban farming.

Mt. Zion Primary School

We want to provide students with an introduction to the various aspects of gardening, which includes:

discussion of where our fresh produce originates.

Living and non-living organisms

Composting

Hands-on learning experiences

Reusing, reducing, and recycling

Real life experiences

Many of our students are apartment dwellers and have little experience of the natural world. A school garden will help bring science studies vividly to life, and help the children feel more at home with and more connected to the world of nature.

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