Lower Elementary

Van Buren Elementary

The goal for our garden is to use it as a learning experience for students in our elementary school and high school as well as an opportunity for community members to work side-by-side with our students and staff. Students will directly observe the life cycle of plants from seed to vegetable. Planting would take place in late fall and early spring, when school is in session. Raised beds provide a healthier environment for beneficial microorganisms and earthworms because there's no foot traffic to compact the soil.

Peck Elementary

Peck Elementary Garden Goal

Coral Way K-8 Center

Our proposed garden project is a partnership between the United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education (the Center) and Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center. This represents a partnership between a nonprofit early education center and a public K-8 school. School gardens will be used to connect these neighboring organizations in our community.

The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers

This grant will make cooking with veggies possible during our Spring & Summer Gardening Internship Program.

In order for students to learn how to cook fresh and nutritional meals, UAGC needs funding to purchase ingredients (fruits, vegetables, seasonings, etc.) that can't be harvested from the garden (this will be the case until late June). Seeds, plants, & dirt will also be purchased & planted in the spring so students can harvest and cook during the Summer Gardening Internship Program using food they grow.

Timothy Murphy School

We have several goals for our garden this year and in the years to come. The first goal is to provide an opportunity for our students to learn about gardening, the cycles of plant life, how to grow healthy, organic food and develop a sense of accomplishment that so many of our students have never experienced. Students will learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the food they grow. The garden will also provide fruit and vegetables for the students to take home and share with their families.

TH Rogers Elementary

TH Rogers has integrated the habitats and gardens into the schools curricula. The accessible gardens are used by our culturally diverse, gifted and talented, profoundly deaf, and multiply impaired students. Our goal is to increase our students access by providing adaptive tools to our multiply impaired students, build a greenhouse to allow year-round gardening activities accessible to all, introduce healthy, ethnically diverse, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables to our students.

The Rice School

The habitat is envisioned as a place for students to interact with nature and learn in the process. In a busy urban city the opportunity for students to learn naturally is limited. This is intensified by the fact that as a magnet school, all of the students spend a portion of the day being transported to and from the school. Many come from neighborhoods that prevent them from getting outside and playing after school.

THE GREEN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE

Since moving into our new school building three years ago, we have been in the process of developing our schoolyard to support the school's mission of improving student achievement and increasing stewardship for the environment through experiential environmental education. This work has resulted in the creation of two garden areas - our Organic Teaching Garden and our Pollinator Garden, both of which serve as outdoor classrooms and support our Investigations curriculum.

Needham Elementary School

The main feature of this project is the construction of a solar-heated greenhouse that will grow vegetables and other plants year-round at Needham Elementary School in Durango, CO. The greenhouse is a 25

Flaherty Elementary School

School teachers will incorporate local farming & foods into the 2nd grade study of plants & Native American history. A butterfly garden will also be planted to show the interdependency of insect and plant lifecycles on early & modern farming practices. Student harvested vegetables will be provided to classes & community organizations to promote public and environmental stewardship.

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