Middle School

A Philip Randolph Career & Technical High School

A.P. Randolph is a public vocational school that strives to educate a generation of young Philadelphians with skills vital to our cities development. We are located in the heart of North-Central Philadelphia, a food-desert with some of the nations highest rates of diabetes, obesity, and malnutrition. These conditions are omnipresent in our student population, which is why we are dedicated to providing them with hands-on experiences with local, organic food production as a means of sustainable development.

Patriot Learning Center

Our garden's goal is to increase yearly produce that provides for our Culinary Arts program and provides for the yearly Thanksgiving Feast. The yearly Thanksgiving Feast is part of our community service curriculum that provides lunch for our senior citizens within the community. This teaches our students social responsibility, maintenance, and duties when caring for the garden. This grant provides agricultural opportunities, graduation credit, and career/technical education.

This program is supported by .

Odyssey Academy

Our goal is to establish a raised bed garden for each of our interested students, families and community members. We believe that by engaging our whole community in this project we can improve neighborhood health, relationships, and school-community connections. Funds from this grant will allow us to expand the community garden program we currently have and add more trellises to employ vertical growing techniques, thus allowing us to increase our growing space and our yield. Our goal is to increase our gardens

Southampton Elementary School

Goals: to provide gardens:

1. Where children learn the Virginia Standrds of Learning (SOLs) objectives in a variety of areas.

2. Which develop within children a passion for nature and gardening.

3. Which build ties within the school family (staff, students, and extended families).

4. Which build bonds with neighbors and community groups.

This grant will help us sustain garden operations and activities for one year. It will also enable us to purchase a much needed teaching table suitable for outdoors.

Perryville High School

In this small, rural community, nutritious fruits and vegetables are not included in the diets of many children and families due to the excessive poverty in this area along with the lack of education about healthy lifestyles.

Mexico Middle School

Our main goal is to provide fresh vegetables for our school, both to supplement our lunch program as well as classroom tastings. The second goal is to provide education about healthy eating, sustainable farming, and the value of home-grown food. A third goal is that students will benefit in personal/social ways: to reap the rewards of seeing a product from their own work, to learn to work together, and to give back to the community. Since we have not had a garden before now, we are in need of tools and materials to start our program from scratch.

Kokhanok School

The goal of the Kokhanok school garden is to create a teaching tool that is both relevant to the kids of an isolated village and that has the power to dramatically increase the quality of life by introducing and supplying fresh vegetables to the community. Village schools struggle to keep kids engaged with a learning system that bases its portrait of society on events, places, and things that have never been experienced by the people of the community.

Litchfield Minnesota Middle School

Our first goal is to get an existing greenhouse at the school up and running. Since being built, the green house area has been too hot to successfully grow plants. Master gardeners, a local CSA farmer, and the owner of the area garden nursery have all made suggestions of ways to correct our greenhouse problems and we are confident with this grant we can purchase the equipment to correct our problems.

L'Ecole Bilingue

Our vision is that the garden be used as a platform to educate children about food literacy. Students can grow food using organic pest control methods, harvest produce, and save seeds. Composting teaches about nutrient cycles. With a cooking program, the children learn proper food prep and use all their senses to discover the goodness of whole foods.

J. W. Sexsmith Elementary

The long term goal of our garden program is to grow the students understanding that their choices will impact their future and the future of their planet. This understanding will be fostered by the short term goals of how healthy food choices impact their bodies; the joy and art of gardening; growing and preparing healthy food; purchasing locally grown foods support local economies and produce jobs for themselves and their communities; recycling and composting reduce waste and pollution - basically - how to integrate healthy living and sustainability practices into their lifestyles.

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