Lower Elementary

Leetonia High School

Our gardening project is part of a total school program for expanding dietary preferences and work skills among students with multiple disabilities and their peers. It also will help us teach sustainable methods of gardening within the science curriculum. The original gardens consist of three raised beds built by the students. The gardens produced tomatoes used by the school cafeteria, and hot peppers that were canned as jelly for a fundraiser.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Elementary School

Our goal is to create a garden on school grounds for all students, staff, parents and neighbours to enjoy. As well as, providing an opportunity for all the students to learn more about food sources, develop life skills that can be used now and in the future and increase their awareness of how different foods taste. Throughout this, we would like to develop a sense of community and a life long enjoyment of gardening. With the grant, we would be able to build more garden boxes allowing more children "hands on" space in the garden. This program is supported by .

New England Kurn Hattin Homes

The educational aspects are unlimited and included in virtually all aspects of the educational curricula.

KNIGHT ELEMENTARY

Knight Elementary is seeking funding to implement a healthy eating program for our students. We want to involve students, teachers, parents and our chef in hands-on learning experiences which will enhance the overall education of our students, especially in nutrition and healthy eating habits. This program would include an outdoor learning garden where students can grow vegetables and learn healthy eating habits using nutritional food from the garden. As part of our program, a local farmer will teach students how to plant and grow vegetables.

James Robinson Public School

One of our main goals is to introduce our students to food gardening in order for them to learn first-hand about their role in sustainability. We also intend to promote healthy food choices by providing the opportunity for students to select, grow and harvest thier own food. This hands-on approach to the curriculum is also an authentic venue for 'inquiry based learning, which will engage and motivate "at risk" students.

Irving Elementary School

We have just wrapped up our first year of gardening at Irving Elementary and are excited to keep growing! We were able to receive funding to purchase a complete Woolly School Garden last year which included 10 hanging planters that transformed our chain-link fence into an urban garden. We also purchased two above-ground planters to complement our hanging garden. While this allowed us and our students to build a garden and teach students the process of growing from seed to harvest, the types and numbers of plants our garden could accommodate was limited and our yields were low.

Washington Elementary School

Grantsdale School is a small, four-classroom schoolhouse located in an agricultural area in the Bitterroot Valley outside the city of Hamilton, Montana. Our historical roots are tied to the land, with many farms still in operation. This connection to nature is what we hope to perpetuate by teaching our children the value of making healthy soil, growing organic food, preparing it, eating it and sharing it with our community. Our garden currently has four raised beds, one bed in the ground for flowers to attract beneficial insects, an apple tree and three raised beds made from large tires.

Horizon Academy

It is our goal that a vegetable garden will enrich both our school year programs and summer programs. For the past nine years, we have sponsored a Junior Master Gardeners

Our Lady of the Holy Souls Catholic School

Arkansas has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in the country. Because of this, in 2003 the Arkansas legislature passed legislation to combat childhood obesity. The goal of the Garden Project is focused on educating students at all levels on issues of how to plant, grow and harvest herbs, vegetables and fruit in a garden that the students themselves (under the supervision of a Garden Director) have cultivated. By getting the students involved in growing the food, it is the hope that they will then make healthier food choices.

Hooper Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to build a greenhouse and small garden for our students. This grant will make it possible for our students k-6th grade to EXPERIENCE science, math, health and Language arts curriculum in the greenhouse in exchange for just reading and doing small experiments in classrooms. Our classrooms for grades k-3rd grade have no windows, making it difficult to grow plants for their science curriculum. The majority of what we grow in the greenhouse will be fruits and vegetables. We plan to donate fresh fruit and vegetables to three local food banks in our community.

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