Middle School

Polson Middle School

We finished our first successful growing season in our school garden & saw so much excitement, wonder & curiosity from the students/staff involved! Our current goal is based on the joys, trials & tribulations we faced during the year experiences. To keep our garden successful & growing in interest, we would like to:
-expand our growing capacity by building more raised beds in our current garden area.

George Keverian School

The Keverian School Garden is a resource to help students learn about healthy eating habits. The after-school Garden Club and the elementary health classes maintain the garden. Through a hands on approach, students learn about the different parts of the plants and the growing process. They learn about nutrition and healthy eating. By growing their own herbs, fruits, and vegetables students get excited about trying new healthy foods. This grant will allow the school to purchase supplies and plants needed to maintain the garden.

Northeast Elementary

A+ attitude brings about change
In creating a viable learning environment for our students, we at Northeast Elementary are creating a nine month pilot program in which we are teaching our students to become productive members of society through learning, application and service. We will accomplish this by creating a three tier approach
The first tier is education:

Oglesby Elementary

Oglesby Elementary is located in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood on the South side of Chicago. Montessori-style education has been integrated into the school and currently serves as an option for students up to the 6th grade. In early 2014 Montessori teachers initiated our school garden, as hands-on and experiential learning is integral to the Montessori style. However, we recognize that the garden has the potential to benefit the entire school and the surrounding community.

Live Oak Waldorf School

The LOWS Food Production Program was initiated in 2012 to integrate food production with education & community building, incorporating row crops, greenhouse, orchard, composting & animal husbandry.

Grandview Elementary

We love gardening at Grandview school! Currently, we have 15 , 4X12 garden beds that are on the school grounds and assigned to all the classrooms from Kindergarten to grade 7. The goal of our garden is to continually engage kids through hands-on learning so they develop the valuable skills needed to plant, tend, harvest and then share. This program runs completely by donation and grants. In the past,funding from Adopt-a-School and Farm to School have made it possible for us to run this wildly successful program year round.

Tamanend Middle School

Our school installed a garden at the end of the 2013-14 school year. We enlisted the help of an Eagle Scout to help us with this project. Although the structure of the garden is in place and we planted a crop in the spring, there is a lot of work to make the garden better. We need to renovate the beds with proper soil and create a compost system to improve the quality of the fruit and vegetables grown. In addition, we are in need of an irrigation system to complete the structure of the gardens.

Hector Garcia Middle School

Our current garden is in existing flower beds that are not meant for growing vegetables and fruits. Receiving this grant will allow construction for vegetable garden beds. Constructing several garden beds will increase student involvement with our current garden program. We would like to use this grant to build as many beds as possible along with set up of a few rain barrels to harvest rain for the garden. The goal of our garden is to gain more participation from students, teachers, and parents.

Weaver Middle School

Weaver Middle School's garden goal is to educate students about where their delicious, nutritious food comes from. In addition, we want more hands-on activities for students. A school garden would, hand's down, aid in the lack of nutrients they are currently missing out on by providing a space for them to plant, water, nurture, and be amazed as their specific vegetable blossoms. We could incorporate language arts by having them write about their findings. We could incorporate science by learning the entire process - start to finish.

Island Montessori Charter School

Gardening is an essential piece of the Montessori method, where interacting with the natural world and the community is integrated throughout the curriculum. Students learn by exploring hands-on materials and real-life experiences. The garden will show students self discipline and social responsibility by allowing them to be responsible for its care, teaching farm-to-table concepts and sustainability, and by giving back to the community through donations and education.

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