Lower Elementary

Penn Alexander School

We see our PAS garden as a means to build community through a common language of health and nutrition. Our school is set in a diverse cultural and socio-economic urban environment, where students and their families are invited to

Pavilion High School

The Pavilion School Community Garden Program will address New York State education standards in science, health, food and nutrition, math, technology and social studies.

Orchard Valley Waldorf School

We have both short- and long-term goals for our garden: First, our garden is for children and teachers to share the connections of the growing cycle, seasons, the food we eat, and our connection to the landscape through wise stewardship. The long-term goal is to use the school garden education program as the core of an evolving farm education program for students, families and the community at large towards sustainable biodynamic agriculture and holistic land management.

Conejo Elementary

This grant would allow us to add 4 horse trough garden beds on a concrete area on the campus. This area used to be a mini zoo and has turned into a fenced off unused area. Water is already available in the area, yet some irrigation will need to be done to connect the beds. Once these are in place, the garden will be ready to turn into a community garden. The horse trough garden beds will show families withoug land that it is still possible to grow your own food. Currently eight garden beds are maintained by students, teachers, parents, as well as community groups.

Omar D. Blair K-8

The goal of the ODB Community Garden is to educate students about various plant life cycles and to increase awareness of the benefits gained by healthy eating habits. First, it will be a positive, continual binding force for our community. We have many celebrations that occur throughout the year that relate to academics, but very few opportunities for parents, staff members, community members and students to interact together and/or learn as a community. Secondly, our garden will help students learn about what it takes to grow food.

Speedway Avenue

The gardening goal is to maintain the indoor and outdoor gardens while getting the students to "go green". We would like to educate the students on proper nutrition, pollution awareness and gardening through hands on experience. Participants will gain knowledge in reading, math and science through research, investigation, observation, and comparative quantitative analysis of cities verses suburban communities.

Fort Bragg High School

Noyo Food Forest (NFF) is a grassroots organization founded in the fall of 2005 to create lasting, positive change on our rural Northern California coast by developing and maintaining school and community gardens. Our flagship Learning Garden, located at the Fort Bragg High School, is a unique on-site Farm to School program and center for education in organic, community-based agriculture. NFF not only cultivates fresh food, we cultivate healthy minds and habits.

North Florida School of Special Education

The goal of the Garden Project, Ready, Set, Grow! is to provide a hands-on learning opportunity for our students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, ranging from 6 to 13 years of age. The children will be involved in all aspects of the garden from soil preparation, planting of seeds and veggie starts, watering and the ongoing care as the plants mature.

Winter Park Elementary School

Our garden was started in 2009 with a $3,500 grant. The initial goal was to just establish a garden. Now, our garden has grown in size and the goals have changed:

1) The third grade science curriculum focuses on plants. The students are taking a major role in planning what crops are best for our area, learning the importance of fertile soil and how to care for crops from seedlings to produce. The third graders then teach the younger grades what they have learned through their research. They also model appropriate gardening techniques as they work with the younger students.

Bennetto Elementary School

Grub Club is for children aged 6-14 who attend Bennetto school and/or live in the North end of Hamilton. It is a safe place where kids can meet each week and discover how to grow their own organic vegetables in the garden, learn how to cook healthy meals and take part in a vareity of physical activity programs (which they would often otherwise be unable to afford). This dynamic program sees that needs are met in the areas of food security, recreation and social inclusion and gives children and their families, skills needed to help build a healthy life. The children

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