Lower Elementary

Prairie Crossing Charter School

Prairie Crossing Charter School has over 40 raised beds on our campus.  Each classroom has access to several raised beds, where they grow crops chosen by the teachers and students.  

The school hosts a monthly Farm to Table lunch.  At this event, crops harvested from our campus gardens are incorporated into a healthy menu.  Students present to the community about how they grew the featured crops, and are able to taste the fruits of their labor.

Polaris at Ebert

Our goal is to further integrate the garden into the cirriculum and the community and to extend our growing season. We plan to implement DUG's Connecting Generations Program which matches older adult mentors and our students in the garden environment. These mentors will support the staff and parent volunteers in teaching various subjects in the garden. To extend our growing season we require additional grow labs to start from seed and hoop houses to get plants into the garden sooner.

Plum Cove Elementary

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days. 

Park School

We have had a set back in our garden this year with our composting as well as our limited budget for planting in a school year. We are re-building a better system of seed gathering composting harvest and output as well as addressing our sick Apple trees which could be feeding our students on a regular basis. This money could help us re-organize this year and any extra harvests perhaps could help fundraise for the future of our garden as well as well as becoming self-sustainable.

Olivia Park Elementary School

Our garden goal is to provide our students and families with a safe healthy and inspired learning environment. We want our students and families to be active participants in our garden and benefit by enjoying the harvest and healthy eating at a time many of our families are financially struggling. This grant will allow our garden to continue to be self sustaining. Having a shed and tools of our own will help take our garden to the next level.

Morningside Elementary School

Morningside Elementary's raised beds and a greenhouse make it possible to grow and harvest produce all year. Students usually make salads in order to sample their harvest. If we had a small mobile kitchen students could learn new and healthy ways to cook and eat (or drink) different crops. This learning tool would also give the children an opportunity for weighing measuring following multi-step instructions and working as a team while learning a lifelong skill.

Marlinton Elementary Graduating Gardens

By establishing a school garden program it will not only benefit the students but the whole community. We hope students will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of where food comes from how it's grown and a personal desire to be healthy through eating well and exercising. We hope this excitement and enthusiasm transfers to parents and together they will make positive changes by preparing meals with more wholesome ingredients cooking at home or starting a home garden.

Lowell Elementary School

The goal of the Lowell School garden is to provide an outdoor classroom where our students can learn a variety of topics ranging from nutrition to science, language arts to community service. Our garden provides a safe hands-on learning environment for our students who have had little opportunity to take ownership of anything. We strive to educate children on where food comes from and to give students the tools they need to grow their own garden in the future.

ESYNOLA, Langston Hughes Academy

From day one of the Dreamkeeper garden's inception, life in the garden has been fast at work – growing, sharing and spreading seeds. Langston Hughes Academy's Dreamkeeper garden is tucked away behind the school, which makes it a perfect place for plants, animals and critters to thrive. As the school community develops its expansion plan for the garden, it continues to grow and change, endearing itself to all who visit it.

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