Middle School

Innovations Learning Garden

 Students, teachers, and parents at Innovations Academy Charter School have rallied around building a strong foundation for our garden program the Innovations Learning Garden. Gardening is the perfect match for the project-based philosophy at Innovations Academy where students learn concepts from working with materials and researching solutions to problems as they arise. Students K-8 have been involved in the planning, designing and construction of the garden. Younger students will learn about the life cycles of various plants and what it takes to tend different kinds of plants.

Garden and Nutrition Club at Hooker School

An afterschool program run by a faculty member at Hooker School, Green Village Initiative and a FoodCorps Service Member once a week. The program offers both hands-on garden education and nutrition education.

Hillcrest Community Garden

 The community garden at the Hillcrest Housing Development allows residents to learn more about growing fruits and vegetables, as well as have a space to do so. The FoodCorps service member helps maintain the garden, educate residents, as well as hold after-school programming, "Friends, Food and Fun" on Fridays. During this time, K-5 students learn about science, gardening, and nutrition, while cooking with special guests and working in the garden with local farmers. 

The Food Project

Since 1991, The Food Project has been providing the Boston area with innovative community and youth programming based upon the belief that everyone deserves healthy, delicious food. Following sustainable agricultural practices, TFP farms on over 40 acres of land in urban and suburban communities in eastern Massachusetts. The Food that TFP grows is intended to increase access to healthy food; it is sold at Farmer’s Markets that accept EBT, WIC and senior coupons, sold as CSA shares, and donated to local hunger relief organizations. TFP youth engagement is integral to all of our programs.

Real Food Rising, a program of Utahns Against Hunger

Real Food Rising (RFR) is a community farming program with a youth development core. We use sustainable agriculture to transform the lives of young people and to increase access to healthy food in Salt Lake.

Thomas J. Waters Elementary School

Waters Elementary School (a Chicago Public School) serves over 600 students from many different ethnicities, cultures and economic levels, the majority of which are from minority and low-income families.  For most schools, exposing children to ecological studies is simply not in the budget.  However, for nearly 20 years Waters has been dedicated to making environmental responsibility a priority, as we belive that learning about the environment is as necessary as reading and math.

The McGillis School

Our goal is to ensure longevity of the garden and foster integration with school curriculum. The grant would support acquisition of: 1) tools and tool storage; and 2) materials for indoor and winter growing. Currently working in the garden requires tools from elsewhere reducing the ease with which teachers and classes can engage with the garden. With our short growing season curriculum integration requires materials that integrate indoor and winter growing with the garden.

Kalispell Public Schools, District No. 5 Flathead County

Kalispell Public Schools and FoodCorps Montana have partnered since 2011 in an effort to connect the approximately 6,000 students in District 5 with real food so they can grow up healthy. We work to achieve this goal through classroom nutrition lessons, garden-based education, and by building a Food Service Program centered on local procurement and healthy, from-scratch cooking.

District 5 currently hosts seven edible gardens and an orchard. Over the next few growing seasons, as the gardens expand, we hope to incorporate more of the harvest into the breakfast and lunch menu. 

Santa Fe Indian School

The School wishes to add raised beds more fruit trees and to improve upon the outdoor classroom.

Richfield Middle School

Our primary goal for the garden is to provide an outdoor classroom for students to study science (seed life cycles sun pattern tracking) math (spacing timing) health (eating fruits and vegetables) and to provide inspiration for art and journaling. The garden also provides students with job skills and leadership opportunities and increases physical activity during classes. Finally the garden increases parent and community involvement and positive interactions among staff and students.

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