Middle School

ARISE Academy

The goal of the garden is to teach students about gardening and nutrition through various school science and liberal arts subjects. This project serves as a resource for students to take on leadership roles in their community. The garden is located in the Ninth Ward area of New Orleans, a designated food desert area with very few retail outlets that sell fresh food. The garden program curriculum includes lessons on the cultural, environmental, and community impact of gardening.

Bridges Community Academy

With a large population of our students on Free and reduced lunches we will use the grant funds to start a garden in which we will grow fruits and vegetables to share with our families and provide our students with Healthy snacks.
We will invite our families to share a favorite recipe that we will reproduce and share with the families on how to prepare some of the food we grow.

Carbondale Community School

The Carbondale Community School (CCS) Learning Garden and club began in spring, 2014. Carbondale Community School is a K-8 public charter school with 135 students.

A+ Children's Academy Community School

A+ Children's Academy Community School is located on the South Side of Columbus, Ohio in a urban community. The majority of our students do not have access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Approximately 90% of our students are free and reduced lunch status. The A+ Children’s Academy vision is for all students to achieve their full potential academically and socially as a result of a strong emotional and instructional support system. Our mission is to cultivate a passion for learning that addresses students’ social, emotional, academic, and cognitive needs.

Summit Academy Akron Elementary

The main goal of the student garden is to provide the students with healthy food choices that are not available to them due to 100% of the school student population qualifying for the free lunch program. This grant would guarantee that the students will have healthy food to eat during the summer when they are at home as well as into the fall. All students in the K-6 building will have the opportunity to learn about healthy eating habits as well as learning about how to care for and grow a garden.

Nicaea Academy of Cape Coral

Our goal is to teach the children at our school and their families that food doesn't have to come from a grocery store. What struck me the strongest was when I was speaking to a student that I had a tomato from my home garden for part of my lunch, that halted me and asked if I was sure it was safe to eat. I said of course, why wouldn't it be? Their response was that I hadn't purchased it at Walmart. Their is a systematic mindset that we are dependent on processed foods. We are dependent on chain supermarkets. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

ellis school

This year we hope to cultivate a irrigated new plot that is approximately 1000 square feet. Our existing program has for the past few year,s been almost entirely self sustaining in that we have spring plant sales which provide the income for soil and seed money. This new garden plot, with irrigation and weed barrier, will grow during the summer while students are absent. The crops will focus on winter storage food to be used in the cafeteria and help the Thanksgiving community food drive....crops will include potatoes, winter squash, sweet potatoes, etc.....

Quest Montessori School

The intention of the gardens at school is that the children (toddlers through eighth grade) will decide what they want to grow and what to do with their yields. Each of the six classrooms will have a designated bed and the children will be their primary stewards. We hope to grow enough food to feed their class snacks or supplement their home packed lunches. We also have a micro business that the middle school is responsible for implementing and we would like to see any excess produce marketed and sold to our school community.

Cherryfield Elementary

Cherryfield Elementary seeks to increase the size of our school garden, incorporate season extending modifications and begin vermicomposting to increase fresh food production for our school lunch program and increase educational opportunities for our students. We will expand our school garden from three, 4x8' raised beds to nine so that each class K-8 is able to plant, maintain, harvest, and plan curriculum around their individual beds.

The Ivy School

Here at The Ivy School, we believe children have the inherent right to a true nature connection, that this connection is not only imperative to each individual's identity, but to our future as a human race. It has been said before that children do not suffer from A.D.D.(attention deficit disorder), but rather from N.D.D.(nature deficit disorder), and we truly believe that this is the case for many individual students of our current paradigm. We live in a very urbanized and gridded section of Portland.

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