Lower Elementary

School Street School

We have eight raised garden beds. They were built with the help of a Home Depot grant and volunteers. Students have helped tend these gardens since 2008. Every May, we hold a Garden Club on Thursday afternoons from 3:00 - 4:00. Students learn about seeds, soil, worms and companion planting.

The River School

The River School offers an inclusive educational program and clinical services for children with hearing loss. These children experience a language gap and require multi-level exposure to concepts and language to catch up and close this gap with their hearing peers.

Richland Avenue Elementary

Our goal is to increase our number of planting boxes and to add additional seating and table-top working space. Richland has put outdoor gardening and garden-based learning as the focus of our educational and social mission statement. An increased planting area will help us educate each child in the life cycle of food: the planting, tending, harvesting, eating, sharing, and decomposition. An additional picnic table will provide needed seating and work space for outdoor lessons and garden-related work.

This program is supported by .

PS 172 Beacon School of Excellence

Our primary goal is to improve and expand the physical and psychological well-being of our community, using the School Garden Project to introduce students to environmental stewardship, community gardening, and sustainability. By creating and taking care of their green space our students will gain confidence, learn about leadership and sustainable living, and practice collaborative skills. The proposed Garden location is a sunroof that is currently vacant and virtually unused by the school population. The location is south facing with 6+ hours of full sunlight daily.

PS 133 William A. Butler School

Our school is under construction, when our school opens in 2013 we will need to move our garden from our current temporary location. All of our plants are in portable planters, which will be easy to transport and also addresses the problem of the soil in our vicinity being contaminated.

Primrose Hill School

The overall goal of the Primrose Hill garden is to teach children how to plant, nurture, grow and harvest vegetables, fruits and herbs.

The children at Primrose Hill Elementary (K-3) have a hands on experience planting the beds, harvesting the produce and tasting different vegetables.

Teachers have the opportunity to hold classes in the garden to expand and enhance their cirriculum.

Beverly Cleary School

The goal of the gardens at Beverly Cleary School is to connect students to nature, support the learning environment of the garden, and build community. As a community we have worked hard to establish our school gardens and involve students throughout many years. As we are having success with this we need to create more spaces in the garden to accommodate all of those who are interested.

Highland Ranch Elementary School

We presented the garden project to the student council. They have written the following goal:

To create a living environment that would motivate children to learn in varied ways. To teach children about agriculture; how to handle it and be responsible for it. To provide a place that is a living science lab, that is friendly and not sterile, and that could be modified and shared with the school community.

This program is supported by .

Pioneer Charter School Kinder Garden

Our overarching goal is to grow healthy food for our students and the community. We want the garden to be a center of learning about nutrition, gardening, cooking, and other essential skills for building a healthy community. We want the children to have a hands-on experience planting, growing, and harvesting their own food. By doing so, students will experience the joys of gardening, be more likely to try new foods, and be of positive service to their community. We want to improve the beauty of our community and show others that beautiful gardens can be grown in the middle of the city.

Wendell Phillips High School

WP Veggie Farm's three main goals are:

1) To grow... organic produce for twenty families, a mix of localia (literally, people who live right next door!) as well as sponsors who live in other neighborhoods in Chicago

2) To teach... high school and elementary school students that some seeds, some soil, some camaraderie and most importantly some HARD WORK can grow into an amazing enterprise and delicious food

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