Lower Elementary

Hunter's Creek Elementary School

Most Americans are generations away from the family farm. As a child, I remember visiting my uncle

Ockley Green School

The Ockley Green Garden connects children with an understanding of how their food grows through hands-on learning experiences. In partnership with Growing Gardens, Ockley Green hopes to integrate the community with the garden program by establishing a robust Garden Committee, facilitating quarterly work parties, offering teacher support and curriculum connections, and conducting family outreach through Parent-Child workshops and enrollment in the Growing Gardens Home Garden Program.

Earl Boyles Elementary

The Earl Boyles School Garden enhances learning opportunities through hands-on garden based education, improving health, wellness, and the academic success of the children and their families. Supporting both adult and child education in the garden helps unite the school community. Students who participate in the Garden Clubs become involved citizens in their community, better equipped to work with others and solve problems. As a part of the existing Portland Parks and Recreation Community Gardens this garden space provides a natural gathering place for the community.

Farmington Harrison High School

This project addresses the creation of a functional working urban garden on the campus of Farmington Harrison High School. The garden will house local vegetables, herbs and flowers. This project will serve as a beacon for healthy sustainable living-something often lacking in the community of Farmington and Farmington Hills. It provides a rare opportunity for a suburban community to utilize space with purpose. The goal of this project is to promote sustainability through our school and local community.

This program is supported by .

Prodigy Leadersip Academy

The five primary goals for our garden project are:

1. To teach essential life skills and support academic learning through the planning, planting, harvesting, preparation and cooking of the fruits and vegetables from our garden plot. We know that children learn more through active involvement in the learning process.

2. Create a school wide project that involves children ages kindergarten through 12th grade, teachers, parents, and community volunteers.

Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School

The goal of the garden is to increase awareness through:

Multicultural Magnet School

The goal of building this school garden is to integrate the garden as an outdoor classroom. This

Cross School

Working with the school community, GVI proposes to build a 37

Eugene J. Gribbin School

The Gribbin Site Committee is trying to implement the addition of a school greenhouse in our structure so that the students may grow a garden in a controlled environment.

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