Middle School

Mother Caroline Academy

We will use our school garden as a classroom tool which will not only enrich our curriculum, but extend the borders of our lessons and advance our school mission and commitment to lifelong learning. This grant would expand our garden's reach to begin and implement a garden-to-table curriculum and program where we can plant, harvest and prepare vegetables from our own backyard in our school cafeteria.

Middlesboro Middle School

After participating in the care and maintenance of this garden students will demonstrate basic vegetable growing techniques, summarize the things plants need to grow and stay productive, and describe the benefits of eating a healthy and varied diet that includes adequate fruit and vegetable intake. Receiving the Whole Kids/FoodCorps grant would allow Middlesboro Middle School to purchase the tools, equipment and other materials needed to start food production in the spring of 2013.

John Marshall Metro High School

John Marshall Urban Farm is less than 2 years old, part of the new John Marshall Campus Park dedicated in 2011. With vision, planning, design, coordination and hard work it is a school wide service- learning project. During spring break ,after school, during classes and summers the farm was restored and features added. The goal and look of the garden is sustainability.

Live Oak School

Our garden's goal is to highlight the connections between food, health and community and deepen the relationships between each. One, through hands-on garden activities, we provide education on how to grow seasonal vegetables, herbs and fruit. Two, by showcasing innovative ways to reinvigorate the land and our valuable topsoil, using composting methods. Three, with local ingredients and a community of local youth and their families to help, we will harvest our produce and empower community members by sharing methods to prepare our seasonal bounty simply and deliciously.

Lincoln Public Schools

Our Garden Project mission statement:

To create an outdoor classroom space in the form of a garden that will foster student connections to and appreciation of the natural world through hands on exploration.

To enrich and support existing K-8 curriculum across all disciplines and provide inspiration for new areas of learning.

Bronx Lighthouse College Prep Academy

The South Bronx is not a very green community. Green spaces reduce crime and increase mental health. Our communities are the highest in the city in crime, mental health disorders, teen pregnancy, and unemployment. Our students are completely capable of being an active member in improving our communities in these ways. There is a group of twenty students and teachers who already love gardening. My goal is to harness the passion of those already of the gardening mindset to spread their passion to the rest of the school.

Leetonia High School

Our gardening project is part of a total school program for expanding dietary preferences and work skills among students with multiple disabilities and their peers. It also will help us teach sustainable methods of gardening within the science curriculum. The original gardens consist of three raised beds built by the students. The gardens produced tomatoes used by the school cafeteria, and hot peppers that were canned as jelly for a fundraiser.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Elementary School

Our goal is to create a garden on school grounds for all students, staff, parents and neighbours to enjoy. As well as, providing an opportunity for all the students to learn more about food sources, develop life skills that can be used now and in the future and increase their awareness of how different foods taste. Throughout this, we would like to develop a sense of community and a life long enjoyment of gardening. With the grant, we would be able to build more garden boxes allowing more children "hands on" space in the garden. This program is supported by .

Los Angeles Leadership Academy

In addition to being an outdoor teaching space, a primary garden goal is to be able to grow enough vegetables to have a weekly salad bar at our school. Students at our school largely come from disadvantaged and low income families and many lack access to fresh healthy food. Yet in the work we have done so far in the garden we have found that our students love to chop vegetables, to make salads and stir fries and are very willing to eat their veggies.

New England Kurn Hattin Homes

The educational aspects are unlimited and included in virtually all aspects of the educational curricula.

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