Lower Elementary

Waldorf School of Orange County

Our goal is to "keep the ball rolling"! This semester, the kindergarten teachers and parents came together to organize and establish a kindergarten garden program. Through gardening, the students are learning science, math, teamwork, and the rewards of hardwork. They get to practice all of these skills while being outside, exercising, and working with their hands. They get to experience the long and rewarding process of feeding the soil, planting the seed, watering the seed, watching it grow and tending it along the way, harvesting, and finally, eating it!

von Humboldt Elementary School

Humboldt Park has a strong history of organization around urban agriculture. The Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness along with CLOCC have improved access to healthy foods. Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School runs an innovative urban agriculture program. The Monarch Community Garden provides a place for local community members to grow fresh vegetables. However, Humboldt Park has no school gardens. School gardens are outdoor classrooms that provide

Vista Square Elementary School

We are pursuing grant funds to turn the garden into an outdoor classroom with garden-based educational materials. We have attended garden workshops on garden enhanced nutrition education and planting a native garden to learn how to incorporate the garden into core curriculum requirements. I have gained the support from several teachers to use the garden to enhance their science, math and English curriculum. Students will help maintain the compost pile and worm bin.

Versailles Montessori School

Our goal for this grant is to expand our current garden's raised beds, purchase more rain barrels to water the garden and also purchase a small rototiller. We incorporate all our students from 18 months through 6th grade with the garden. The younger students help pull small weeds, water and harvest. The older students build the beds, fill with dirt, work the three bin compost, harvest the crops, prepare snacks and meals for their class and the school and go to the local food bank to donate some of the produce which plants the seeds of future philanthropy... pun intended.

Vernonia Schools

This garden will be a teaching tool for our students and the community. Food security is a hot topic in our region, and this garden will be the focal point for education on food production. 2013 will be our second year in production, and we will continue providing excess food to the local food bank. Our school is developing a stronger natural resources program, and many teachers have asked for a practical "lab" with which they can demonstrate many key concepts of the sciences.

Union Pleasant Elementary School

SOLE has had hands on lessons with classes over the past few years, bringing the students out and sharing experiences in many different subject areas. We have had over 500 students each year. We are working on having reference materials at the garden. The materials we would like to have out at the garden would be reference books for k-5th grades as well as storybooks for early grades.

Tulsa Met High School

The goal of the Tulsa Met Community Garden is to make fresh produce readily accessible to Tulsa Met Junior High and High School students and community members. In addition, the garden must be a site of real-world, project-based learning where students can design and complete projects with authentic and meaningful results. With the funds from the grant, TMCG will have access to a larger variety of seeds and plant types that grow well in our climate. This will ensure a continuous harvest.

Truscott Elementary School

The overarching goal of our garden project is to create a beautiful and productive space which will serve as an extension of our school and an intersection point with our community. We plan to accomplish this, with the support of this grant, by continuing and expanding upon our existing vegetable garden with additional horticulture and habitat projects. Through these projects we will grow our garden into a large, vibrant, attractive neighborhood center which provides healthy food and learning opportunities year round.

Tillicum Community Annex

To create an accessible, inclusive food and native plant garden with the help of the community that promotes food security and environmental education, provides a safe, natural outdoor gathering space, and inspires families, students, and seniors to eat healthier local fresh fruit and vegetables. We will continually strive to accomplish the goals set forth in this Vision Statement so that they may be fully realized.

The Franciscan School

Our goal is to provide an engaging, hands-on, plant-based learning environment, teaching the students care for creation, organic gardening and social justice. The garden will provide an unparalleled environment for students to learn the joy of the natural world, the myriad varieties of edible plants, and valuable ecological principles. We want to build a greenhouse in order to extend the growing season, increase the year round harvest, maximize student involvement, and enhance scientific experimentation.

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