Middle School

Goler Community Garden at the Downtown Health Plaza

  Our garden is located at a safety net health clinic has 65,000 patient visits a year.  The clinic serves Pediatric, Ob/Gyn and Adult Medicine patients.  The garden provides fresh produce to the clinics at no charge as well as providing learning opportunities for all the neighborhood.  There are regular workdays for all volunteers with special times for instruction on gardening.  Also there are cooking classes for all ages.

Greenbelt Middle School at the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom

Since the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens project sprouted in 2010, Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society (CHEARS) has established outdoor classroom gardens that are multi-generational, handicapped accessible, beautifully artistic, and are a great example showing how to grow local healthy food at home.

Grace Lutheran School

Our goals for Grace Garden are to create community service and educational opportunities and collaborative church and school relationships. This project will be service-oriented because a majority of the harvest will be donated to a local food bank. We will plant specific plants according to the needs of the food bank. As our relationship with the food bank grows, we may be able to do other service for them as a school.

Goodrell Middle School

The grant will make it possible for our FoodCorps members to work with 5 schools in Des Moines to build and revitalize school gardens. In addition through the special projects funding we request we will provide a 5-week school garden training in early 2012 to teams of at least 2 people (teachers social workers parents etc.) at a dozen schools. This training will introduce these school teams to basic gardening techniques curriculum that aligns with Iowa Core and garden planning activities.

Forest Grove Community School

The goal of this garden is to provide a natural space for student and community learning. Outdoor activities are a crucial part of the place-based school curriculum and students practice garden design botany zoology garden maintenance and harvesting/food preparation in this space. In addition community work-parties pot-lucks and seminars occur in this space. 

Edwin Markham Middle School

Our goals are to:.1. Educate elementary students about the importance of fruits and vegetables.2. Energize and excite them about produce.3. Introduce fresh produce into the diets of students and their families.4. Give schools access to a variety of resources and support to help achieve Goals 1-3.This grant allows us to maintain the upkeep of the gardens (youth volunteer incentives recruitment etc.) and instruct the Teaching Gardens curriculum (teacher stipends curricular costs etc.).

Corvallis Environmental Center: Edible Corvallis Initiative

Our Farm to School programs makes connections between our food system and our school system. We work directly with school districts to procure and promote locally grown foods. Our program is working to increase the use of local foods, encourage our children to make healthy eating choices, and support regional farmers.

Clara Barton Open School

Our school has a vision of beautifying school grounds through gardening while providing child interaction and learning in the gardens. This grant will allow us to begin our efforts by creating a vegetable garden. This prototype garden will involve parents teachers and children in creating and maintaining the garden and developing a related school curriculum. A vegetable garden will create an accessible hands-on experience for the children and foster interest and energy to expand our garden.

Charles W. Eliot Middle School

Students with little or no experience of growing food will learn to prepare soil plant tend harvest and prepare or sell organic fruits and vegetables. Our garden will be a source of fresh nutritious produce for our community the basis for standards-linked hands-on lessons in science health and nutrition and the cultural and economic aspects of growing food. It will beautify our urban campus and provide a point of connection with the surrounding community.

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