Middle School

Bartle Elementary

Highland Park's three school gardens (Irving for the youngest grades, Bartle Elementary, and the Middle/High School garden) are a collaboration between a municipal entity, Sustainable Highland Park, and Edible Gardens, a local grass roots initiative. Together, they are committed to achieving a plan for a healthy environment, healthy people, a strong, engaged community and social fairness and equity. This initiative builds participation and collaboration between the schools and the larger community, with a focus on health and wellness, nutrition, and food security.

Dowdell Middle Magnet School

Dowdell Middle Magnet School is the only magnet school in Hillsborough County with the theme of environmental studies. Our curriculum is based on global sustainability. Our goal is to expose students to alternative gardening methods. Allow students to experiment, compare and contrast between traditional soil garden, organic garden, predatory bug garden, hydroponics, aquaponics, and a recirculating system called barrel ponics. We want students to understand that not all plants need soil to grow or a large area of land. We also incorporate alternative sources fo water for our plants.

Dual Immersion Academy

In Fall 2009, Dual Immersion Academy (DIA) broke ground on its first edible schoolyard garden. The DIA community rallied together to build garden beds and fill them with soil and seedlings. We are close to reaching our original goal: to provide a rich educational experience of growing and eating whole foods.

John P. Parker School

John P. Parker is an urban school located on 13 acres in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Madisonville.  The Madisonville community is identified as an urban food desert with no walkable access to fresh produce. John P. Parker students eat the majority of their meals at school. All 358 students receive free breakfast and lunch through the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program.  Dinner is provided to all students enrolled in the afterschool program and students who are food insecure over weekends are given a bag of food, “Power Packs” every Friday.

Tohickon Middle school

We have four goals for this project. The garden will... a.allow our students to learn how to start and maintain an organic garden. b.provide our students with an opportunity to learn about gardening, a lifelong hobby. c.provide fresh produce to supplement our FCS curriculum. d. provide fresh produce for our local soup kitchen. The garden will allow our FCS department to teach their nutrition lessons right in the garden. The vegetables will be used by our FCS department in their day to day curriculum in teaching nutrition and in preparing meals.

Canyon Park Junior High

We used our grant to buy 24 yards of topsoil and garden tools for our school garden! We had 150 students shoveling and pushing wheelbarrows full of topsoil with the help of parents and master gardeners.  Every group of four 7th grade students shares a garden plot in which they design, plant and care for vegetables and flowers. We have a team of 8-10 Master Gardeners who come in to share their expertise as well as work alongside the students in the garden.

Burbank Community Day School

The primary purpose of this garden is to teach students at the Community Day School sustainable gardening practices. The Community Garden will promote the formation and expansion of the community and the student relations. It develops the resources to develop a greener and healthier community. The garden will serve many educational purposes in reference to the production of nutritious foods, conservation resources; it will encourage research on the impact of community gardening and greening.

Kennedy Alternative High School

The garden/greenhouse is used as outdoor/indoor classrooms for place-based experiential learning, with an emphasis on developing a model for learning entrepreneurial and vocational skills in sustainable agricultural with a newly-added aquaculture program and additional propagation space.

James G. Blaine Elementary

Our mission is to create an outdoor learning space that compliments and expands students

Baldwin School

The goals of The Baldwin School Garden Project are to create, support, and sustain our school garden so that students can connect with nature in engaging, nurturing and inspirational ways and to make plant based learning and whole food a part of the education of all our students. As well as to foster cooperative spirit among schools, families and the surrounding community through involvement with the school garden. And finally, to create a vibrant, sharing network of educators and partners committed to putting the school gardens at the heart of our shared community.

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