Lower Elementary

Ridge Hill School

The Goal for the Discovery Garden at Ridge Hill School is to provide a learning environment where students, families, teachers and community members can learn about gardening concepts, nutrition and health, learn about healthy lifestyles and eat nutritious food right from the Discovery Garden. We envision all students from K-6 participating in the Discovery Garden. We also have set as a goal 40% family participation in this project for 2012-2013. A School can not do this project alone and we need the support in the community to make the Discovery Garden a sustainable reality.

Woolman School

Our garden feeds and educates the students and staff of the Woolman Semester School and promotes our core values of peace, justice, and sustainability via interactions with the wider community. Most of the garden's 7,000 annual pounds of produce are used in our school kitchen; with it, interns, students and staff members cook three meals a day for between twenty and forty people at a time. Administrative staff, teachers, interns, students, and volunteers all help in the garden, learning as they do so how to grow food while caring for the land.

William E. Russell

The Russell School students will advance their understanding of science, technology, mathematics and healthy choices through the creation and maintenance of a school vegetable garden. We believe that our students will have a better understanding of complex topics and how these topics relate to them directly through this project based learning opportunity. Students will be challenged to research, design and implement a school vegetable garden in an low income urban setting. Students will then use the produce to create healthy snacks and meals.

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Lawrence W. Pingree Primary School

The goal of our garden is to improve the health of our students, their families, and the community. In 2011 a local study showed that 38 percent of Weymouth students were obese. In light of this, we are promoting exercise and healthy eating, before, during, and after school through 2 grants. We now want to provide children with the hands-on training to plan, start and maintain a garden to foster healthy eating throughout their day and ultimately throughout their lives.

Westside Village Magnet School

Our goal is to expand and refurbish our existing 12 year old garden. With the help of many stakeholders, we raised funds and built the garden of our dreams. The garden is an outdoor classroom, and the key to integrating our health and wellness vision. Students grow vegetables that they cook in our classroom kitchen. They bake pizza and bread in the oven. They pick flowers and create bouquets to decorate the school for events.

Center City - Trinidad Campus PCS

The Center City Trinidad garden has many goals: 1- To increase student understanding and respect for the natural world. 2- To bring science, math, social studies, language and visual arts to life through hands-on learning. 3- Nurture a feeling of community among teachers, students, parents, and community members. 4-Foster a sense of responsibility and teamwork. 5- Teach about nutrition and healthy choices.

Washington Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to build awareness of the benefits of healthy lifestyles. Next year with the reintroduction of core standards into the curriculum there are so many possibilities to incorporate the garden with lesson plans. With our school being over 50% low income, many students don't have the access to information on healthy living and nutritious homegrown foods. Without the access to large yards where they live they have no chance to grow their own gardens. This garden will be the center focus of our school so it wont be left to be forgotten in forthcoming years.

Wesleyan Kiddie Kollege

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has adult obesity in Warren County at 30.7% and for children in the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program obesity is 19.5%. Parents and community partners are asking for new ways to combat this epidemic. Support has emerged from our community wanting to undertake school garden programs. A trial garden with the Warren County Health Department was developed with Wesleyan Kiddie Kollege this fall. It created excitement and requests to fully implement a garden program.

Elm Street School

Our vision is for families, schools, and the Walpole Community to work collaboratively towards the shared goal of fit and healthy children. Students will have a hands-on learning experience in the school garden and will eat fresh, healthy foods.

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