Middle School

Vanscoy

Over the past 2 years Vanscoy School, a rural school just outside of the city of Saskatoon, has been creating an outdoor classroom to be used by all classes at the school from Kindergarten to grade 8. The space was designed to be fully accessible to all members of the community, but is especially used during outdoor education classes which all students at the school participate in. After completion, the outdoor classroom will feature a covered learning space, green areas for learning and working together, and raised beds for planting vegetables and fruit.

Memorial Middle School

Our entire school garden is utilized as an educational tool. The garden is used directly with the Family and Consumer Sciences classes and serves 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students at Memorial Middle School. Produce used in the Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) classrooms allow students to learn to prepare vegetables, the importance of nutrition, and how their food choices will affect their health.

Frankford Friends School

Many of today’s children, especially city-dwelling students like ours, are no longer able to spend unhurried hours exploring the natural world in the way that previous generations enjoyed. Yet, research is showing that nature play and exploration make essential contributions to children’s cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development. Natural “playscapes” like the one planned at Frankford Friends School are rich outdoor spaces, designed based on research and field-tested principles, where children can connect to nature in curiosity-driven, unhurried play and exploration.

Charleston Collegiate School

To educate students on the rigors and joys of growing organic vegetables and herbs. School curriculum is implemented for K-12, all students work in the garden. Vegetables are used in the school cafeteria.

Trinity Academy of Raleigh

Trinity Academy has two small raised beds on our campus that are designated to various grade levels. The students plant seeds, nurture the gardens, and harvest the produce year round. We utilize our crops for some personal use but also in donation form to organizations that will accept our produce. Our gardens parallel with our science curriculum as well as service learning. We would love the opportunity to have a garden dedicated to the entire lower school in order for all students to participate.

South Shore Educational Collaborative

Our goal for the school garden is to engage students by providing a dynamic environment to observe, discover, experiment, nurture and learn through hands on experience and direct connection to classroom curriculum. Our hope is to turn our courtyard into a garden to be a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from real life experiences and encouraging students to become active participants in the learning process. South Shore Educational Collaborative is made of up 4 programs and this garden will be a great opportunity to collaborate with other programs.

Mountain Valley School

The Mountain Valley School’s greenhouse has two main goals: to provide fresh, nutritious produce to the school cafeteria and serve as living laboratory space for k-12 science classes. This grant will fund resilient vegetable beds built of cedar and rich soil to fill them. The expected lifetime of these boards is around a decade: cedar resists rot. This will serve our first goal by providing a robust growing space for our vegetables.

École des Grands-Vents

The ultimate goal for our garden project is to create an environment where students of the École des Grands-Vents can actively participate in a school garden on a weekly basis, bringing them into greater contact with nature in order to better understand nutrition and the foods that they eat, which will enable them to have a more personal and intimate connection with food that will stay with the students throughout their lives and assist them in making healthy lifestyle choices.

San Luis Elementary

Through this grant, our school would like to offset the obesity cycle among our youth and create an environment that teaches the importance of nutrition through gardening, enhances the school educational curriculum by making it engaging for students, teach healthy behaviors as a family unit and offer fresh produce in a community otherwise considered a food desert. This is especially important because 75% of the adult population within Maverick County (Eagle Pass is the county seat) is considered overweight or obese and 13% have been diagnosed with diabetes (Texas DSHS BRFSS, 2010).

Environmental Charter School

The ECS Edible Schoolyard's (ESY) mission is to build connections with students, families, and the larger community through garden and kitchen experiences that foster compassionate citizens who feel empowered to make healthy food choices for themselves and increase access to healthy food for others. ECS values the whole child and honors students’ mind, body, and spirit through its holistic approach to education.

We envision the ECS ESY to:

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