Middle School

Cedarbrae School

Our goal is to have students become engaged in their learning and to have the opportunity to experience it through meaningful and memorable tasks. In doing so taking ownership for the garden and willingly take on the responsibility to maintain their efforts. This grant will help us to re-establish our outdoor classroom and garden area as a focal point of our school community. It will be open to parents and neighbours as a place they can come to visit and share knowledge.

Amerischools Tucson Academy

Our goal is to revitalize an existing garden space on our campus visible not only to staff, students and families but to the surrounding community as well. Our first step will be to install a vertical garden comprised of a Woolly School Garden package. This grant will allow our students to learn how to grow flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables with a Woolly School Garden, from planting the seed to harvesting the fruits of their labor. The garden will give us fresh healthy food for the kids to taste and take home.

AlSalam Day School

MISSION (March 2013)
To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality.

Antioch School

The goal of the Antioch School garden is to enrich the lives and learning of the children. The garden will not only be incorporated into the academic subjects, but will also be incorporated in artistic endeavors and involve children in physical activity to strengthen both muscles and neural pathways, and serve as a quiet space to process learning and connect with nature. The garden has existed since 1994. It has been used to varying degrees, but there have been significant barriers to it being more fully utilized.

Fairview School

We plan on installing a solar array on the school. The energy generated from it will be used to power lamps to grow vegetables on a small scale, year round, indoors, from our own school generated waste (compost). The school's social action club and science teachers will manage the garden and use it to demonstrate principles of sustainability. Our garden will be 100% sustainable and organic. The primary goal of our project is educational. A secondary goal is to reduce our carbon footprint and compostable waste generated by the school.

Ursuline Academy

The Herb Garden at Ursuline Academy is an effort to provide an outdoor, hands on learning environment where students can experience a wide variety of activities that support lessons in health and nutrition, and science while being enhanced in a cross curricular experience in art, English and other subject areas. Some areas of study will include:
1.) Life cycles using vermiculture (a worm farm with Red Wigglers) and butterflies
2. ) Recycling by producing compost and vermiculutre to naturally fertilize the soil with waste plant and food products

Glenmoor Elementary School

Our garden's goal is to teach the children at Glenmoor Elementary to eat more fresh, whole foods through the school garden program. The grant will make it possible for the school to provide the resources and materials to get this program started and able to flourish. We are excited to have the opportunity to teach the children to grow their own foods and eventually taste the fruits of their labor in the school cafeteria salad bar.

Blessed Sacrament Catholic School

The goal is to integrate gardening into all classrooms across the curriculum including teaching about organic & heirloom vegetables. Another goal of the coordinator is to make the garden self-sustaining. During this 2nd year, we would like to see a mulching program begin, use of 3-bin compost system to use cafeteria waste, worm bins added, and most importantly to expand the garden from its current 40'x10' section to almost double in size, 80' x 15'. Eventually, we would like to add a mini greenhouse to the campus.

Open Classroom

The goal of the garden at the Open Classroom is to involve children in an experience of growing and harvesting food, to teach and enrich the students, provide interest to the surrounding community and support the school's mission of whole child enrichment.

Almond-Bancroft School

The goal of Almond-Bancroft's school garden is to combine education of sustainable practices with a service learning environment for bettering the education of our rural community. Many families in our district are impacted by the agriculture industry, but don't have the knowledge and tools to make good choices when it comes to their production or consumption of agriculture. We are hoping to help families make nutritional choices while helping the school teach a new generation of farmers.

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