Middle School

Atlanta Preparatory Academy

The APA Edible Schoolyard Committee strives is to promote better eating and "horticultural literacy" for students, staff and faculty of the school. More specifically our objectives are to:

- Educate students about nutrition through the context of food,

- Reinforce school learning objectives & curriculum goals

- Develop a successful, sustainable whole foods nutrition and gardening education programming for APA cafeteria students, parents, and neighbors,

Hartman Public School

What is unique about our initiative is that includes the creation of two gardens on two different school properties. Our main goals are to build positive connections with both community members and our environment. Our schools are situated in a fast growing suburban area and it is very multicultural. This year, our new community has also been separated by school boundaries. These gardens will be a vehicle to establish positive community ties. Our second goal stems from the fact that our neighborhood has farmer

Woolman School

Our garden feeds and educates the students and staff of the Woolman Semester School and promotes our core values of peace, justice, and sustainability via interactions with the wider community. Most of the garden's 7,000 annual pounds of produce are used in our school kitchen; with it, interns, students and staff members cook three meals a day for between twenty and forty people at a time. Administrative staff, teachers, interns, students, and volunteers all help in the garden, learning as they do so how to grow food while caring for the land.

White's Junior/ Senior High School

Our goal is to involve our "at-risk" youth in the establishment, maintenance, and harvest of a series of gardens. Through this, they will enjoy fresh air and sunshine while learning how to garden. It will provide emotional healing and self-esteem as they watch their garden grow. It will give them opportunity to work with teachers and staff, providing opportunities to talk while working in this informal setting. They will learn about plants and how they grow in relation to achieving healthy, sustainable gardens.

Westside Village Magnet School

Our goal is to expand and refurbish our existing 12 year old garden. With the help of many stakeholders, we raised funds and built the garden of our dreams. The garden is an outdoor classroom, and the key to integrating our health and wellness vision. Students grow vegetables that they cook in our classroom kitchen. They bake pizza and bread in the oven. They pick flowers and create bouquets to decorate the school for events.

Center City - Trinidad Campus PCS

The Center City Trinidad garden has many goals: 1- To increase student understanding and respect for the natural world. 2- To bring science, math, social studies, language and visual arts to life through hands-on learning. 3- Nurture a feeling of community among teachers, students, parents, and community members. 4-Foster a sense of responsibility and teamwork. 5- Teach about nutrition and healthy choices.

Timothy Murphy School

We have several goals for our garden this year and in the years to come. The first goal is to provide an opportunity for our students to learn about gardening, the cycles of plant life, how to grow healthy, organic food and develop a sense of accomplishment that so many of our students have never experienced. Students will learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the food they grow. The garden will also provide fruit and vegetables for the students to take home and share with their families.

TH Rogers Elementary

TH Rogers has integrated the habitats and gardens into the schools curricula. The accessible gardens are used by our culturally diverse, gifted and talented, profoundly deaf, and multiply impaired students. Our goal is to increase our students access by providing adaptive tools to our multiply impaired students, build a greenhouse to allow year-round gardening activities accessible to all, introduce healthy, ethnically diverse, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables to our students.

The Rice School

The habitat is envisioned as a place for students to interact with nature and learn in the process. In a busy urban city the opportunity for students to learn naturally is limited. This is intensified by the fact that as a magnet school, all of the students spend a portion of the day being transported to and from the school. Many come from neighborhoods that prevent them from getting outside and playing after school.

Haines Borough School

Three and a half years ago, in response to a community desire to compost school lunch scraps, the Takshanuk Watershed Council (TWC) began the Starvin

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