Middle School

Sunrise Educational Society/Sunrise Waldorf School

GOAL: To further develop the school garden and nuture awareness and connection to nature in students through exposure to organic and biodynamic gardening methods, sustainability, conservation, and harvesting produce. OBJECTIVES: To incorporate aspects of gardening and healthy eating into every grade. To develop ways/means to use the produce. To sustain the garden through organic and biodynamic methods. To develop awareness of conservation of water, seeds, and the soil.

Samuel Yellin School

Our main goal is to create an outdoor garden that will have the necessary tools to maintain our garden space. Our overall goal is a multi-step plan that will benefit the students at Samuel Yellin School for generations. This grant will expand the self-sustaining garden that we have started. In the future, we would like to expand the garden space so that multiple classes and members of the community will be able to benefit from the garden.

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St. Brigid of Kildare

Our current garden will evolve and continue to grow. With the assistance of the garden grant we will expand the garden to include 6 additional garden beds (we currently have 9 garden beds) Students will build , fill with soil, and plant additional vegetables in the new beds as well as maintining our current garden beds. In addition our school would like to add fruit trees to the garden space.

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Santa Rosa Charter School

Our garden goal is "grow and share the bounty!" The grant would cover costs of new quality tools such as shovels, rakes, pruners etc...Supply a variety of organic seeds and plants plus soil and amendments. It would greatly help expand our worm composting program, providing boxes and covers for our worms, the compost is waste from the cafeteria. We could start our chicken program and enclosure. These two programs will provide greater success for our ongoing fundraising farmers markets and sales of garden produce to our school community.

Southside Family Charter School

Southside Family Charter School's goal is to maintain and expand our strong garden program!  For three years we have been fortunate to have a thriving school garden, thanks to teachers, administrative, parent, volunteer and community support. The garden is an integral tool for our students and we use it to enhance reading, social studies, science, and the food program.

Southold Elementary School

The Southold Garden Project supports the cultivation of a school garden for the betterment of our school, our community, and most importantly, our children. Creating and maintaining a school garden improves both health and education. The garden helps teach kids to make better choices about food and enables the school to provide better food options in the cafeteria. The garden creates an outside space for hands-on, practical study of science, math, literature, business, industrial technology, home economics, art and design.

Parrish Middle School

This year, our new Parrish Middle School Courtyard Garden and Edible Landscape produced 100 pounds of fresh food. Our Parrish Greenhouse Garden produced 225 pounds of food. Support from Whole Kids will provide the supplies and materials to expand this young garden that already make a significant impact on the students and their community. The garden has created a colorful, cheerful gathering space where students learn to make healthy food choices, appreciate nature, and practice sustainable and self-sufficient food production.

Rhode Island School for the Deaf

The goal of our community garden at RISDeaf is to weave the garden into as many aspects of the school curriculum as we can. We want to continue to expand the integrated lessons and activities that teach the students about green, sustainable living in an urban setting. We want to teach both the sign language vocabulary and english print vocabulary that is connected with the garden in all subject areas.

John Adams Middle School

The goal of this garden project is to expand our existing garden space to include an orchard. The orchard would allow students to see a wider variety of produce that can be grown right here in New Mexico. They will learn that some produce, such as zucchini, tomatoes, and herbs, grow on bush like plants. They will see that other produce, such as apples, peaches, and cherries, grow on trees.

Shepherd Valley Waldorf School

Since moving to a 38-acre campus in 2001, Shepherd Valley Waldorf School has consistently incorporated gardening and exploration of nature in the curriculum of every grade, pre-K - 8th. However, two years ago the school's gardening efforts got a big boost from a new collaboration with Everybody Eats!, a local non-profit committed to expanding Boulder County's supply of organically, locally and sustainably grown produce.

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