Middle School

Magnolia Montessori Academy

Magnolia Montessori’s FARM (Fostering Authentic, Relevant Montessori ) learning program provides a real-world, entrepreneurial education to its students in grades Pre-K through 6th. Through the creation and management of an agricultural business, Magnolia students will explore mathematics, language, science, and social learning through an experiential, standards-based approach. The FARM Learning program comprises a mix of agriculturally based learning opportunities including areas for raising fowl, growing produce using hydroponics and raised bed systems, and aquaponics.

Wildflower School

Our garden goal is, essentially, to take what we already have and make it better. Seven years ago we started a garden in our school, turning an asphalt school yard into a diverse garden and play space with raised garden beds, a stage, and a story circle. We are now at a place where we need some additional support to push it further. This grant will help us further our garden goals by:
• improving and extending our irrigation system
• fixing up and optimizing the effectiveness of the wooden 3-bin composter we built

St.James Catholic School

Our Garden's goal is to Provide healthy food for our students during the school year and local food bank through out the summer. We would like to use the money from the grant to build a small shed to store tools and green house to start plants early, purchase child friendly tools, a rain barrel to harvest rain and save resources, fertilizer as the soil is poor quality, seeds for growing and plants for the coming spring. We are interested in growing fruit trees and starting a melon patch. Our school currently provides a daily healthy snack for every child five day a week.

H.B. Wilson Family School

With H.B Wilson’s school garden, we seek to engage students in a variety of areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. The school garden project enhances classroom programming to provide nutrition education and hands-on sustainable agricultural practice, provided weekly by two FoodCorps service members. The garden is an accessible and hands-on tool for teachers to use with their students.

University School of Milwaukee

Our School is fortunate to already have one garden thriving on our campus; this garden is used primarily by our Upper School students as an outreach project. The harvest of this garden is shared within the greater Milwaukee community in areas of need. Our Upper School students work with the Amani community, one of eight neighborhoods within four US cities receiving a BNCP grant, which seeks to catalyze community driven change in neighborhoods that have historically faced barriers to revitalization.

Orleans Parish 4-H

Orleans Parish 4-H is currently working with 5 separate schools to develop edible gardens.

Birchwood School

Our school garden is designed to help our students grow healthy food so that they can eat the fresh vegetable and herbs during lunch. Our school is a school that services the emotionally handicapped population for the Clarkstown Central School District. The students often have difficult home environments. Many do not have the means to eat a well balanced meal. The teachers in our program do not have a traditional lunch period. We eat lunch with our students. Our goal during the lunch period is to enhance nutrition.

Community Montessori

Our ultimate objective is for our garden to become self-sustaining and serve as a mainstay of our entrepreneurship, philanthropy, health and wellness, practical life, science, and history curriculum. In the short term, our goal for this year is to build a durable shed that will protect our tools from weathering, expand our blueberry crop, amend the soil for our five raised beds (4’x20’), purchase new seeds and plants, purchase new and replace old tools, purchase new herb seeds and plants for our herb garden, and create a butterfly garden.

St. Margaret Mary Catholic School

The initial goal is to expose students to gardening and eating more vegetables. The second goal is to improve the educational outcomes through hands-on learning and real-life application of math and science lessons. A third goal is to use the garden to build community in your school, and a fourth goal is to provide a place where families in the community can have their own gardens through the summer months. We have room to expand the garden if interest increases from other classes in the school or from more families.

E.M. Stanton Elementary School

The garden’s goal is to be a major experiential tool in the 4th grade science and health curriculum, with an emphasis on concepts such as water conservation and composting, as well as the long-term importance of incorporating local and organically grown fruits and vegetables into a healthy diet. By engaging this garden on a regular basis, students gain a greater appreciation for and understanding of their responsibility to maintain their environment, as well as the active role they do and can play in this process.

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