Middle School

Holt Middle School

The garden was created to supply local, organic food to the cafeteria to improve student nutrition; to give students opportunities for experiential learning and application of ideas learned in the classroom; and to connect students with their families, role models, and community.

Camelot Intermediate School

The goal of our gardening project is to teach youth to utilize their resources, understand how to care for the environment, and create a sustainable garden that provides for the needs of those around them; all while learning about nutrition and healthy lifestyles and the science behind gardening. This grant will help our youth gain an in-depth understanding of the importance of conservation and sustaining plant life, through hands-on educational experiences.

William Dick School

Communities In Schools of Philadelphia proposes to establish an urban garden at William Dick School. Urban gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.

St. Stephen's Academy at Glade Run Lutheran Services

Glade Run Gardens serves as a therapeutic, vocational, and educational program for children throughout Western Pennsylvania. Students at St. Stephen's, Glade Run's private licensed school, participate in horticulture programming as part of their curriculum, learning about plants and the natural environment and developing a love of nature. For children in residential treatment at Glade Run for emotional health issues, the gardens serve still other purposes: horticulture therapy and a vocational program.

Bessie Carmichael

The goal is to educate youth about the impacts food has on personal health and the health of the environment, while also cultivating their entrepreneurial skills through business partnerships. Funding would allow Bessie Carmichael to recruit Healthy Planet to help them fully develop their school garden and coordinate a student-run Enterprise Project based around their harvest, where the students want to use real food from the garden for the school cafeteria or snacks. The proceeds produced by the project will go towards the school garden and its maintenance.

John Muir Middle School

The goal of the Teaching Garden is to shift the way students think about food. Through interactive programing and project-based learning students will increase their appreciation and understanding of agriculture, nutrition, and the food system. Teachers will utilize garden-themed lessons to teach 180 students nutrition, science and other subjects. The school Garden Club will teach students how to plant seeds, nurture growing plants, harvest produce and understand the value of good eating habits.

Boston Latin School

We aim to create a hydroponic garden in an urban setting at Boston Latin School (BLS) to raise student interest in sustainable agriculture,to promote eating healthy locally grown produce, and to utilize the hydroponic garden as an engaging learning tool in science courses.

Parkview Junior Academy

Our goal is to expand our initial implementation of the Edible Garden at Parkview Junior Academy, so that it can serve as a four-season garden that provides sufficient fresh produce to feed the Academy's students, and students' families who are in dire need, and, provide teachers with project-based learning opportunities.

This grant will allow Quench & Nourish, Inc.

Crutcho Public Schools

A grant from Whole Kids Foundation would allow the Food Bank to expand its growing program by partnering with Crutcho Public Schools to establish a community garden. Nearly all of Crutcho

Sewickley Academy

Sewickley Academy is Pittsburgh

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