Middle School

Orchard Valley Waldorf School

We have both short- and long-term goals for our garden: First, our garden is for children and teachers to share the connections of the growing cycle, seasons, the food we eat, and our connection to the landscape through wise stewardship. The long-term goal is to use the school garden education program as the core of an evolving farm education program for students, families and the community at large towards sustainable biodynamic agriculture and holistic land management.

Omar D. Blair K-8

The goal of the ODB Community Garden is to educate students about various plant life cycles and to increase awareness of the benefits gained by healthy eating habits. First, it will be a positive, continual binding force for our community. We have many celebrations that occur throughout the year that relate to academics, but very few opportunities for parents, staff members, community members and students to interact together and/or learn as a community. Secondly, our garden will help students learn about what it takes to grow food.

Speedway Avenue

The gardening goal is to maintain the indoor and outdoor gardens while getting the students to "go green". We would like to educate the students on proper nutrition, pollution awareness and gardening through hands on experience. Participants will gain knowledge in reading, math and science through research, investigation, observation, and comparative quantitative analysis of cities verses suburban communities.

Fort Bragg High School

Noyo Food Forest (NFF) is a grassroots organization founded in the fall of 2005 to create lasting, positive change on our rural Northern California coast by developing and maintaining school and community gardens. Our flagship Learning Garden, located at the Fort Bragg High School, is a unique on-site Farm to School program and center for education in organic, community-based agriculture. NFF not only cultivates fresh food, we cultivate healthy minds and habits.

North Florida School of Special Education

The goal of the Garden Project, Ready, Set, Grow! is to provide a hands-on learning opportunity for our students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, ranging from 6 to 13 years of age. The children will be involved in all aspects of the garden from soil preparation, planting of seeds and veggie starts, watering and the ongoing care as the plants mature.

Bennetto Elementary School

Grub Club is for children aged 6-14 who attend Bennetto school and/or live in the North end of Hamilton. It is a safe place where kids can meet each week and discover how to grow their own organic vegetables in the garden, learn how to cook healthy meals and take part in a vareity of physical activity programs (which they would often otherwise be unable to afford). This dynamic program sees that needs are met in the areas of food security, recreation and social inclusion and gives children and their families, skills needed to help build a healthy life. The children

Transitions school of ISD 916

Two schools involved include: the Transitions School, a 7-12 Special Education for 80 students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) and other neurobiological disorders and the WELS North Summer Program (a Special Education program for 18-21 year olds). Their broad goals are to enable students to internalize positive values necessary for positive life outcomes, while making progress with specific academic outcomes. We see our School Garden as at the core of each school

Mountain Road School

The goal of our garden is to immerse our students in the natural process of growing food and working in partnership with the earth in a balanced and nurturing way. Mountain Road School has recently renovated an historic home which has presented us with opportunities and challenges. The opportunity before us is the creation of garden space- designed by teachers, parents and students in collaboration. The challenge comes from years of corn crops grown in the soil.

Sligo Creek Elementary

The goal of the school garden is that it will become the centerpiece of a new outdoor classroom, which will be located in an enclosed courtyard shared between Sligo Creek Elementary School and Silver Spring International Middle School. The space currently houses lawns and some plants but has not been consistently used as an instructional resource. The garden will afford our students the opportunity to see and personally experience plant lifecycles (and associated lifecycles of animals that depend on them) with their own senses rather than simply reading about them in books.

St. Bedes Catholic School

The Littles Road Community Garden has already completed one successful growing season. Our dedicated team of volunteers helped to plan and implement the garden from the ground up and has been integral in the daily operation of the site. Next year we hope to develop the Malvern Community Greenhouse and Learning Centre which will offer community members and students from surrounding schools the space and opportunity to learn about the growing cycle from seed to harvest.

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