Middle School

belle haven elementary

This garden will mainly support science and nutrition for all of our TK-8th grade students at Belle Haven. Additionally, it will support literacy, math, art and social studies for all classroom teachers. An edible school garden will provide a place where children, and the community, can learn about and interact with nature, while learning the values of growing organic food locally. In the academic sphere, the program will incorporate science curricula, interdisciplinary studies, and gardening and maintenance activities, serving as a living laboratory and extension of the classroom.

Academy @ Shawnee

Our school, grades 6-12, is located in a USDA certified food desert in a blighted neighborhood. There is only one grocery store, and it's miles away from a majority of our families. Our school population is high-poverty, made up of almost 90% free and reduced lunch qualifiers. So, besides school lunches, many of our students and their families do not have the opportunity to eat much fresh food and produce, and even if they can get it from the store, it is usually more expensive than the fast food and processed food alternatives.

Elm St Middle School

In our urban community many residents are unable to plant a garden due to contaminated soil. Our school courtyards are no exception. Our goal is to create an alternative urban garden utilizing hydroponics, an indoor grow lab, and vertical beds. The current garden area is comprised of flower gardens only due to the lead content of the soil. It is our hope that exposing our students to alternatives for edible gardening will enable them to spread these techniques out into their community.

Randy Smith Middle School

The goal of the Randy Smith Middle School Garden is to teach students where food comes from, and to encourage personal gardens, healthy eating, and being outdoors. It also strives to be an additional classroom resource for teachers throughout the year, offer activities for youth throughout the summer months, and serve as a source of food for the neighborhood. The newest goal is to allow the neighboring Ann Wien Elementary School to use the garden.

Hillel Day School

The garden’s goal is to teach students the importance of growing their own food and eating locally grown food for the purposes of conservation, elimination of poverty and energy efficiency. The open-source design we implement will be instructional, to share the idea that even in constrained settings, one can build a functioning four-season greenhouse and give prosperity away. Nothing matters more to a kid than food, and food is the connective tissue between our daily life and the future of innovation, such as feeding the next generation of astronauts on a space station.

Bridgestone Intermediate Center

The Western Heights Community Garden started in 2012 and has expanded to include diverse raised beds, an acre dedicated squash, corn, and melon production, and a half-acre mix fruit orchard. The goals for this program include improving school and family nutrition, increasing community connections between schools and families, and expanding student engagement through hands-on learning.

St. Anne Catholic School

The Giving Field is a one acre piece of property located in Beaumont, Texas that gives all of the harvest to feed the hungry in the community. One soup kitchen in Beaumont and one soup kitchen in Port Arthur, Texas receive weekly deliveries of organically grown fresh fruits and veggies and cage free eggs. This garden was founded in October 2012 and in two short years over 13,000 pounds of organically grown fruits and veggies have been donated to the two soup kitchens.

The Independent School

Our goals for this garden are to donate 50% of the produce to local food banks and use 50% of it in our school cafeteria and classrooms.

The 50% used in our cafeteria will help us include hands on nutrition education and experience with nourishing food to teach students the purpose and value of healthy food, to question their food trends and to ultimately gain ownership of their food choices.

Lake Hills STEM Elementary

At Lake Hills STEM Elementary School we would like to install Vertical Wheel Gardening Units (VWGU) which will help students apply next-generation technology skills into the world of hydroponics gardening. One of our goals is to help students understand how the concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) have been used throughout the history of gardening. Our gardens (Native American, pioneer, raised bed, and rain gardens) serve as living laboratories which provide our K-6 students with a real-world context for integrating lessons across all subject areas.

WISH CHARTER

Our goal is to provide a garden classroom to our students. To expose them to their source of food and to teach them valuable gardening and horticulture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.

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