Middle School

School To Fork

S.C.R.A.P. Gallery's School To Fork is a sustainable garden program for local schools where kids learn to grow what they eat and eat what they grow!  We work with students and teachers to develop on site, drought tolerant gardens, from raised beds to keyhole gardens. Our goals are to establish a connection to nature and environmental stewardship incorporating the following principles:

Gahanna Middle School South Garden Club

           Since December of 2013, the GMSS Garden has received grants from the Gahanna Jefferson Education Foundation, The Bob Toopes Show Your Class 5K, and Whole Foods’ Whole Kids program totalling over $5,000. The garden space includes over 20 beds for vegetables and herbs. A bed for blueberry bushes and wildflowers native to Ohio has been added. Additionally, benches and a large work table are being installed to create an outdoor classroom space.

Grow It Green Morristown

The Urban Farm is New Jersey’s largest school garden. The farm is located at the Morris School District’s Lafayette Learning Center. Throughout the growing season, the Urban Farm serves the community by:

  • Providing educational opportunites for the 5,200 school children of the Morris School District, as well as area colleges and our local community members

  • Creating opportunities for children and adults to experience local, chemical-free food

Garden Growers Group

The Garden Growers Group is an important part of the GSB Community Garden. A Garden Grower is a member of the GSB Community that is helping the garden to grow by sharing time to help with the garden. This may include planting, weeding, and harvesting. There are also tasks that do not require getting dirty hands in the garden.  This includes sorting and saving seeds, planning summer plantings, updating our log books, and keeping the GSB Community updated about what is happening in the garden.  Garden Growers will be able to share in the harvest by sharing their time to help the garden. 

Le Jardin Academy

Piko, in Hawaiian, is the navel or place for being. Our learning garden, Piko, is the inspiration for our ‘place’ for being. Situated in the center of the lower-school classrooms, it is a gathering place, educational center, and our connection to the earth. It is our hands-on tool for exploring many of our inquiry units, part of our International Baccalaureate programs. When a local farmer said that our garden wouldn’t grow anything, we didn’t throw down the shovel; we dug in. We attended workshops. We created a round layered garden.

Brady High School

Our program is called “From Tower to Tray” or more commonly known as Seed to Feed. We started a school garden last year in an abandoned greenhouse located at our High School. With a little TLC and the awesome support of our AG students and our maintenance crew the greenhouse was made useable to us for our Tower Gardens. I decided to use the Aeroponic vertical gardening system because it allowed our garden to be mobile to display in cafeterias, take to classrooms or at family event nights.

Hollenbeck Middle School

The garden we have provided for Hollenbeck Middle School is truly beautiful: there are various raised beds full of basil, corn, carrots, bok choy, swiss chard, kale, brussel sprouts, and beets. Fruit trees line the periphery of the garden, and there is even an arroyo with a bridge crossing. With the Whole Kids Foundation Grant, our goal is to not only continue to maintain and utilize the thriving plants to its full potential, but to spread the impact of the garden’s success.

Eagles Landing Middle School

. Our garden has been a growing and expanding central focal point of our school for the last three years. What we are doing this year is expanding into a productive and producing garden that not only is aesthetically pleasing, but also producing a useable resource in a healthy manner. We have proposed to have a hydroponic vegetation garden within our outdoor classroom. We would like to purchase 5 EZGro garden sets to allow for a compliment and learning center to our now being built raised bed gardens. We started our gardens for vegetation with a ground based raised bed garden set up.

Independence Middle School

My main objective is to create a sustainable vegetable garden that can be used by the entire school as engaging place to learn, read, experiment, etc. For example, I envision the garden to be a place where classes can come observe, experiment, measure, calculate, and inspire. We have several obstacles to making this goal possible, 1) stable & environmentally sound watering technique, 2) expense of garden basics (dirt needed to expand the raised garden beds, plants, and organic pest/fertilizer options), 3) seating to allow for an outdoor classroom environment and reading oasis.

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