Lower Elementary

Community United Elementary School

The goal of the Community United garden is to provide a safe place for students to learn about food and where it comes from. We will use the grant to create a more sustainable garden so that students will have a consistent program year after year. We hope to create a learning environment where the older students are teaching the younger students about gardening and the teacher is only facilitating. This promotes responsibility and develops a sense of community with the garden as its focus.

California Avenue Elementary

Our garden has 1 year goals and 5 year goals: This grant will make our 1 year goals possible, and get us well on our way to success in achieving our 5 year goals.

The overall goal of the Riverbank Community Gardens is to improve access to nutrition education to our children through hands on production of foods, and to create, and develop community partnerships that share those goals.

1 year goals:

1. To upgrade irrigation system to be more efficient and cost saving.

2. To obtain materials, expertise and labor for the building of a secure tool shed.

C. J. Donald Elementary

Our primary goal is to expand and sustain an existing school garden located at C.J. Donald Elementary school in Fairfield, Alabama. This garden is used by students in the Better Basics HOPE Community Learning Center program in the afternoon and is accessible to students and teachers throughout the school day.

Our garden instruction seeks to increase students

Buckhorn Public School

Goal: To expose students to the importance and biodiversity of local food. This goal will be achieved through growing and tasting a variety of crops throughout the winter and summer months.Students will grow and taste varieties not widely available , and also learn seed saving skills for future planting. Students will research heritage and rare food cultivars.

Brookfield Schools

Our goal is to improve physical and emotional health in the children at For KEEPS by: increasing awareness about healthy foods; reducing body weights and improving (Body Mass Indices (BMIs); improving social skills such as waiting one's turn; listening to directions; being safe; communicating with peers; and having appropriate fun. Parents are encouraged to serve fruits and vegetables brought home by the children from the For KEEPS garden. We duplicate planting/growing at home by providing starter kits (pots, dirt, seeds).

Brentwood Academy

This collaborative art and ecology project is being developed in partnership with CNG, Brentwood Academy, the Cultural Kaleidoscope Program, and Castilleja School. We propose to plan an organic garden and create a green space that serves as an outdoor classroom for ecology and art education as well as a place where members of the school community can come together.

Beth Ramacher Educational Complex

The goal of our school garden is to expose our students to new adventures and new experiences. Our students have severe disabilities and some of the students are medically fragile. They do not get to experience gardens; for some they do not get to experience real fruits and vegetables. This grant will allow us to present new and exciting opportunities for our students. When they are outside our students are smiling and enjoying themselves soaking up the sun. The students love getting their hands dirty and watching the plants grow big and strong.

Arapaho Classical Magnet Elementary

Our mission is to create and support a 'fully sustainable and functional organic garden, utilized by all grades to enhance core curriculum standards and teach nutritional life skills.'

Amy Biehl Community School

The primary goal of this garden program is to create a basis for a new type of education within the school that incorporates the garden as an outdoor classroom while addressing state-wide science standards through sustainability and garden curriculum. The garden serves as a center of hands-on learning for students in the school through weekly garden classes that engage students in innovative learning practices and projects. In the winter months, the garden serves as a source of inspiration for students as they embark on creating their own school-wide sustainability initiatives.

13th Ave. Renew School

In 2010, Thirteenth Avenue School and its surrounding neighborhood were chosen to participate in the Strong Healthy Communities Initiative, as part of the Living cities Integration initiative. One of the goals of the Initiative is to transform vacant lots into safer and cleaner facilities such as community gardens. In addition, part of Thirteenth Avenue School's mission statement is "to establish home, school, and community partnerships that strive for academic excellence." This program is supported by .

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