Middle School

The Classical Academy of Sarasota

The Classical Academy of Sarasota opened its doors to 185 students this academic year, beginning in August 2014. Our future school garden's goal is twofold. First, we wish to allow our students from kindergarten through 12th grade to be a part of the process of growing food in order to enrich their science, nutrition, and health educations. At our school, we encourage healthy lunches and snacks, and provide a lunch service that serves healthful lunches that include locally grown and organic items when possible.

NOW Elementary School

The school garden at the N-O-W School District has and will continue to serve as a farm to school “classroom” where students can get hands-on opportunities to grow produce that is served on the school lunch lines! The goals for our gardening program are directly linked to the goals of the district’s 21st Century Community Learning Center (CLC) after school program. It is projected that all 115 students participating in the CLC program will be involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating of the school garden growing and harvesting procedures.

Green Inspiration Academy

The Garden Goal is to share a new and environmental friendly experience with the students. Many, if not most of the student's attending the school live in aprtment units. They typically do not have much "green" to see. Our goal is to provide a completely different setting for students to learn in. the garden will allow the students to have positive and therapuetic experience wathching plants and food grow. The fun part and the expectation being to eat the food and take it how to parents and guardians.

Northome School

The school garden committee selected the following as the goals for our garden committee:
1. Provide our students with fun and interesting experiences that are relevant to the real world.
2. Improve student diets with local produce for healthier living.
3. Teach students how to produce their own food.
4. Teach students how to preserve and prepare their own food.
5. Meet Minnesota education standards in science, health, social studies, and math.
6. Demonstrate gardening and diet techniques for parents and the community.

Valwood School

Our current garden is small, and has only 4 types of vegetables. The kindergarten class has had the most involvement. Our goal is to increase the size, and variety of plantings to create a "Rainbow Colors for Health" annual/perennial garden. This will allow involvement of all of our PUpper Elementaryth grade classes. The "rainbow colors" and associated plantings will include (but not limited to):
• Red: radish, strawberries, apple tree
• Orange; carrots, orange tree
• Yellow: summer squash, lemon tree
• Green: cucumber, spinach, lime tree

John F. Kennedy Elementary School

The John F Kennedy School garden is an outdoor garden classroom. The goal of the garden is to provide a hands-on learning space for children in grades K-8. Teachers can use the space for any and all subject matter from science to English and mathematics to social studies. This garden is a part of our larger Farm to School Project. Through this project, we work to Empower Mindful Eaters through a variety of programming including the school gardens.

St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Our hope is to implement a new, sustainable garden at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, as well as revitalize pre-existing garden areas. These gardens will serve as outdoor gardening classrooms and safe, green spaces for the children to spend time outdoors at school. The garden program seeks to enhance the nutrition and sustainability education components at St. Andrew's. CNGF trained college interns will teach the FOSS method using hands on science techniques and garden props.

KIPP Academy Middle School

The garden at KIPP Academy Middle School has grown organically over the past 4 years based on the needs of the school. The ultimate goal of the garden is to be sustainable over the long-term. This grant will provide seed money for our 3-year plan. This plan addresses the 3 pillars of sustainability (see below) to ensure that the garden continues to thrive at this school.

Charles Hart Middle School

Hart Middle School is located in Ward 8 in Washington, DC, the poorest ward in the nation's capital, and in a community where fresh food is scarce and rarely an option. The school has also struggled with both attendance and testing scores. With this new garden initiative, we aim to better engage students in school classes and activities related to the garden and provide them with a hands-on learning experience, particularly for our special education and autistic classes.

Syringa Mountain School

The Syringa Mountain School aims to showcase a community and student empowered garden space. The gardens serve as a learning lab for students, parents, and staff alike. Unique to the school's experiential curriculum is vegetable and herb propagation, seed saving, food preservation, medicine making, composting, plant identification and other practical skills. Central to the gardens are bio-dynamically prepared composts and teas that enhance soil life.

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