Lower Elementary

The Neighborhood School

The garden goal is to boost and augment what we already have--most of what we have is entirely maintained on a voluntary basis with donated plants and vegetables. This grant would help us do more to create a high-quality gardening space for our students and our community.

The McGillis School

Our goal is to ensure longevity of the garden and foster integration with school curriculum. The grant would support acquisition of: 1) tools and tool storage; and 2) materials for indoor and winter growing. Currently working in the garden requires tools from elsewhere reducing the ease with which teachers and classes can engage with the garden. With our short growing season curriculum integration requires materials that integrate indoor and winter growing with the garden.

St. Matthews Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to integrate school-grown vegetables into school lunch service by supplementing the district's _Farm to School

Silver Spur Elementary

Edible Education program for PreK - 5.  Garden Docent and Garden Teacher lead lesson for every class.  Weekly rotations by grade level.  Teaching standards based lessons in the Outdoor Classroom.  

Shepardson Elementary School STEMs of Learning

Students gain knowledge about vegetables and fruits which may improve attitudes toward these foods and lead to healthier choices and a greater appreciation for how their food is grown. The garden creates an appreciation for teamwork,  patience and responsibility. Students are empowered by engaging in hands on learning and practicing scientific method.

Kalispell Public Schools, District No. 5 Flathead County

Kalispell Public Schools and FoodCorps Montana have partnered since 2011 in an effort to connect the approximately 6,000 students in District 5 with real food so they can grow up healthy. We work to achieve this goal through classroom nutrition lessons, garden-based education, and by building a Food Service Program centered on local procurement and healthy, from-scratch cooking.

District 5 currently hosts seven edible gardens and an orchard. Over the next few growing seasons, as the gardens expand, we hope to incorporate more of the harvest into the breakfast and lunch menu. 

Sand Point Elementary School

Creating a community where children empower themselves with healthy lifestyle choices rooted in sustainable agricultural practices. The garden program will instruct on best practices in urban agriculture and foster thinking on cultural and socio-economic issues of global and local food cultivation. We hope that by enabling them to share the bounty of their harvest with the community a lifelong commitment to sustainable food growing and healthful eating will hold.

ESYNOLA, Samuel J. Green Charter School

As the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans' founding garden, the growing spaces at Samuel J. Green Charter School wrap around the school, encircling its students with reminders that the natural world inspires curiosity, and that beauty is the language of caring. Whether it's finding a quiet space in the butterfly garden to reflect, keeping an eye on the fruit ripening each day in the side yard orchard, or getting hands in the dirt in the main garden beds, Green's gardens inspire exploration and the sense that something truly wonderful might be just around the corner, or under the next leaf.

Saint Helens Elementary

Construction began on the 6 000 sq ft garden in June 2011. It is now fenced and has raised beds water supply and a garden shed with tools. Our goal for this year is to plant dwarf fruit trees berries grapes and kiwis and to construct cinderblock compost bins & install 2 rain barrels to collect water from shed roof. These improvements will make ours fully functioning and many times more productive. More produce means more kids get to cook and eat more fresh foods.

PS11 The William T. Harris School

Our garden's main goal is to connect our urban students to the natural world and to introduce gardening with edible plants. Outside of school the PS11 elementary students have very little access to interact with nature and few have participated in growing food. The school garden successfully provides tastings and provides a small amount of vegetables and herbs to the school kitchen. We grow inside in the classrooms, on the 2nd floor roof space and around the play area downstairs. We have a well established compost and rainwater catchment.

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