Lower Elementary

Barcroft Elementary School

Barcroft Elementary, a Da Vinci school, is dedicated to creating lifelong learners with exceptional health and nutrition habits. Your grant will enable our students to grow food for two annual events: Farm-to-Table week, when local chefs and farmers serve healthy snacks and share their passion for food; and the First Grade Thanksgiving Feast, where first graders and their parents try typical American Thanksgiving fare, often for the first time. With a new large, raised planting bed, our students will plant, tend, and serve their own vegetables during Farm-to-Table Week.

Owl Creek

Apple Seeds, Inc. upholds a mission to provide education and tools to enhance local food systems and support better nutrition for folks in Northwest Arkansas. Since 2009, we have been a school garden leader within the Fayetteville Public School District (FPSD). We currently support three school gardens and will begin supporting a fourth in Spring 2013.

Leverett Elementary

Apple Seeds, Inc. upholds a mission to provide education and tools to enhance local food systems and support better nutrition for folks in Northwest Arkansas. Since 2009, we have been a school garden leader within the Fayetteville Public School District (FPSD). We currently support three school gardens and will begin supporting a fourth in Spring 2013.

Stehlik Intermediate School

This garden grant will teach the special needs students at Stehlik Intermediate, that there are cycles to everyday living. With the funds we receive, we will buy the supplies needed to start our garden as well as supplemental teaching materials to further educate the students in horticulture. The garden will also help students learn about the food chain, photosynthesis and the environment, in addition to teaching them about empathy for living things.

The Agnon School

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Belvedere Elementary School

In our world of video games and high tech devices, today's children often miss the pleasure of going outside and digging in the garden. One of our goals at Belvedere is to have our students experience the joy of seeing food grow from seed to edible treat. We would like our children to be active participants in growing vegetables that they might not regularly see on their tables at home. Our goal is to help our students grow and try new foods they do not see everyday. It is shown that children will often try foods unfamiliar to them when they grow it themselves.

Yonkers Public School 29

My goal as parent is to give our children the experience to grow a garden as a group. It will enable our students to grow as individuals and establish better eating habits. Overweight and bad eating habits is an epidemic, children do not realize where healthy food comes from.

Xavier Elementary

Our garden goal is to educate students about healthy lifestyle choices and encourage them to make healthier choices in their everyday lives. Various garden produce gives students an opportunity to taste a wider variety of fruits and vegetables. The garden will also enable us to teach environmental awareness and sustainability practices through hands-on activities. This grant will help us maintain the garden by funding the creation of an efficient watering system.

Winchester School

Our goal is to utilize our existing garden plot and greenfouse to grow more food. We would do this by utilizing grant funds to better cultivate our garden space; do secondary plantings once an initial planting has been harvested; manage our school compost area to provide compost for the garden and for the community; and use our greenhouse fall, winter and spring. Producing more food would mean that more students could sample items grown here by themselves or their schoolmates.

Washington Elementary School

The Washington Elementary School Edible Courtyard will be primarily an educational garden - inviting kids to learn about fresh fruits and vegetables, planting and gardening, and nutrition and health during their school day and after classes. 95% of students receive Free or Reduced lunches, and this garden will be a way to increase access to fresh produce through the cafeteria and for clubs' snacks. Our garden will also encourage students to feel safe in their community, and to become familiar with environmental and food issues in their community.

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