Middle School

Parish Episcopal School

The garden will become a community focal point, uniting parent volunteers, teachers, and students in tending to a living space together. At Parish, the Beasley STEM Center and Fleeger Family Learning Kitchen already set Parish apart nationally as a school with designated space to promote hands-on learning which equips students with the enduring skills as thinkers, collaborators, creators and communicators which they will need in order to be life-ready in a rapidly changing world. We know the addition of our outdoor garden will further enrich the learning experiences afforded our students.

Fellowship Christian Academy

We are a 100 percent minority school in an urban area. We have a small patch of land near our school that is suitable for a garden. We want to raise crops to contribute to the local food pantry and also to introduce our students and their parents to whole and fresh foods and whole and fresh food preparation. We will utilize part of our harvest for education and part of our harvest to contribute to the food pantry.

Great Oaks Charter School

The overall mission of the garden is for Great Oaks middle school students to gain an understanding of and exposure to how food grows. Through visibility and use of the garden across several classes and topics, we hope to increase the students' willingness to eat fruits and vegetables grown in the garden by 25% over the growing season.

Michigan Islamic Academy

The goal of our school garden is to help our students become excited about growing and eating locally grown food from organic sources. We are very committed to encouraging our students to adopt healthy eating habits, which we hope the grant will enable us to do by making it possible for us to grow our own vegetables. We also hope to foster the notion of responsibility in our younger students, as we intend to have each elementary classroom be responsible for their own section of the garden. Our plan is to integrate our gardens into the classroom.

Tavares Middle School

My goal for our garden is to increase my students with autism spectrum disorders and/or intellectual disabilities as independence as possible. While increasing the students' independence, the students will also learn agricultural skills for future employment, life skills,social skills, and science about plants. The students will harvest the fruits and vegetables they grow and use them for cooking lessons. Another goal for the garden is to provide fruits and vegetables for our school's cafeteria.

KIPP Central City Academy

KIPP Central City Academy is located at the heart of Central City, a neighborhood of New Orleans that has been historically plagued by violence and poor health across a number of factors. Our garden program was devised as a means to enliven and unite the local community to take their health in to their own hands. The mission of the garden is twofold: Firstly, to provide a therapeutic outlet and recreation for Central City youth to channel after school time in to productive and character building ventures.

Northeast School

This grant will assist with the educational center within the four-acre market garden being developed. Funds will be used to purchase seeds, hoes, shovels, etc. The goals for the educational center would be to educate students on healthy lifestyles and ways to prepare fresh items. We also will provide training to individuals interested in pursuing community employment or entrepreneurial businesses that would include marketing skills so they will understand the connection between growing local health food and the financial benefits.

Delaware School for the Deaf

Our goal is to teach our children using hand on approach. The school garden are integrated into different subjects (read below) and character education. They learn best through visual and hand on activities. They involved smell, sight, taste and touch.
They learn why it is important to take care of the garden so vegetables can grow bountiful and healthy. It requires attention, and commitment. It teaches children to apply same philiosophy to real life.

GEM Charter School

The children wrote some things they wanted to see in their garden.

Grecia said; "we have a dad who came in today and showed us how to make seed bombs, he comes in every Friday and we were thinking that we could plan flowers, plans, fruit and fruit trees all around the school"

Marcos said; " Gardening is important to the environment, it helps a lot. Furtilizers like Seed Bombs, Chicken Poop Tea (we have chickens at school as well), compost and coffeegrounds help fertilize the garden.

Eliot K-8

Goals of the Eliot garden program are to promote health and wellness and decrease obesity, decrease the academic achievement gap, and build connections between the Eliot school families and neighborhood community. We aim to decrease obesity among Eliot students and staff by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, increasing awareness of the relationship of fresh, local produce and health, and increasing awareness of sustainable agriculture and local production of food. We aim to decrease the academic achievement gap by incorporating equitable experiential learning into core subjects.

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