Middle School

Harding University Partnership School

Our goal at Harding University Partnership's School Garden is to immerse each and every one of the students in the five pillars of Explore Ecology's Garden Education Program: Planting, Harvesting, Cultivating, Composting, and Nutrition. With the assistance of the Whole Kids Grant we will have the capability to purchase garden supplies for an after-school garden club devoted to students who are fervent about digging into garden education.

William Davies Middle School

Our garden's overarching goal is to continue to expand our reach in addressing the food needs of our community. Our specific goal with this grant is to improve our composting program at our school site and reduce waste. We will incorporate the need for composting into our school curriculum in all subject areas and promote home composting and raised bed gardens by presenting school garden tours and workshops for our community.

Focus Learning Academy of N. Columbus K-8

Our school's garden will serve two functions. First we will use it to teach our students aquaponics techniques that they can use to grow food with very little water waste. These are skills they can use in real life application when they travel home to Africa to help grow food for everyone. Secondly they will be able to produce fresh vegetables that they can eat and share with their families. We are always actively trying to educate the community on how to make healthier food choices. Our school garden would be a great example of how to live a healthier lifestyle

Hope Sp Ed Center (Hope High School)

The goal of Hope High's garden revitalization project is to transform the current Hope Garden into a sustainable working garden which will continue to produce food, curriculum and arts materials for a collaborative multi-discipline nutrition, agricultural, horticultural therapy, and arts infused program which began in the Winter quarter 2014.

Gilford Middle School

The goal for the Gilford Middle School garden is to provide the opportunity for hands-on application of our student curriculum while simultaneously focusing on community action and social responsibility. The garden will connect to curriculum across all four grade levels, with the intention of emphasizing critical thinking, communication, and creativity.

Morrill Elementary

The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses. The goal for our garden is to truly make a safe, enjoyable and healthy place for the community to grow food, learn about new foods, share in the stewardship of a garden. With this grant we will make it our mission to promote healthy eating throughout the school community.

Thomas Edison Elementary School

The garden will provide a space for reading, discussions, and science-related study. In particular, it will help promote and instill healthier lifestyles in students given the rise of childhood obesity/diabetes. The planting and care of edible plants will provide the classes the opportunity to learn life-long healthy eating habits. One of the most important discoveries students make during their journey through elementary school is the discovery of the joy of learning.

Franklin D. Roosevelt K-8 School

We are a full inclusion school where typical students and students with disabilities learn side by side . This project is needed because the primary focus of curriculum in the past has been literacy and math. This project would provide children with real-life applications of science and nature. With many of our students having special needs, the real world application is critical to their understanding. Our long term goal is for students to progress through the grades with a solid foundation of scientific inquiry and processes.

Kanu o ka Aina

Our garden program is called: “Huli ka Lima i Lalo” which in Hawaiian, means: “to turn the hands downward and be productive.” Our garden program is currently run and supervised completely by parent volunteers and is funded by donations for tools, materials, plants and equipment. If awarded this grant, these funds would help to sustain our garden by allowing us to purchase much needed equipment such as: new tires for wheel-barrows, hand tools, water hoses, watering cans, and mulch.

Keith Bovenschen School

My school is a center program for students ages 3-26 with moderate to severe disabilities. Three years ago we started the Bovenshen Community Garden. Our students benefit from learning about proper nutrition through real life experience and gain great work skills learning about a career in which they can possibly pursue in the future.

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