Middle School

John M. Smyth Magnet School

This grant will make it possible to outfit our school greenhouse with soil, pots, grow boxes, educational materials and irrigation equipment that will help us maximize the amount of produce that students can start in the greenhouse and grow both in the garden and outdoors. Our goal is to bring vegetables that the students grow to the cafeteria for them to eat. Last year we had a volunteer who made it possible for 6th graders to start seeds in the greenhouse and we cooperated with a community garden nearby to have the seedlings moved outside to grow.

Monte Rio Union School

At Monte Rio Union School, approximately 85% of our students qualify for Free & Reduced Lunch. This means that the food and lessons around wellness that students receive are critical for their future well-being. Our Garden & Nutrition Program teaches nutrition through cooking, tasting, and gardening. Kindergarten-8 students are taught weekly, as well as students in After School. Students create a quarterly Garden & Nutrition newsletter, advancing skills in ELA, technology, and Common Core. We connect with local farms through CAFF.

West Boundary Elementary School

At West Boundary Elementary School our goal is to involve the students in growing food and learning about the process of growing; from soil prep to planting to care and harvest. Our school is in a rural community and we have an annual Harvest lunch in the fall for students, family and community: this year the green team harvested pumpkins from the garden and students were taught to process them. The Grades 4,5,6 & 7 classes baked pumpkin desserts for the Harvest lunch which feeds over two hundred students and community members.

Mountain Oak Charter School

We would love our school garden to produce many vegetables to be used by the students to learn to cook with and create meals. As part of our school's curriculum we teach our students farming, gardening and cooking. We have two wonderful areas for our school garden, the front area for the lower grades and the back area for our upper grades. This grant will help us a great deal in retaining and creating beautiful and abundant gardens for our entire school community!

Friends Meeting School

The Great Garden Heroes (GGH) is a student driven group in charge of Friends Meeting School edible gardens. Made up of 1st through 4th graders it created a mission statement that states “to use our school garden to promote community by working together…..

Roosevelt Middle School

Our short term goal is to use all of the vegetables that we grow in our cafeteria. Our medium term goal, as we expand, is to use some of the vegetables in the cafeteria and give some to the food bank (on Fridays) to the food pantry that operates out of our school. Our long term goal is to expand enough to provide for the previous two entities and harvest enough to sell at a local farmer's market to pay for the next year's expenses thus becoming self sustaining.

Daniel Jenkins Creative Learning Center

We have been building up our garden for the past 3 years. We have a green house and an out door classroom. We have also received tools, 3 additional raised beds and seeds by taking a school gardening class over the summer. One problem, but goal, we have is irrigation. We had hoses that were lined up across the driveway and through a field to get to the 7 raised beds we have. We even have a timer to water the plants, but the lawn services company rides over our hoses and cuts them. This makes irrigation very difficult. Another goal is to become GAP certified.

Word & Praise Christian Learning Center

Our ultimate goal for our future school garden is to afford our students with an experience that they otherwise would never have had. We want our students to learn the science of gardening, we want them to experience the empowerment that comes along with growing and eating their own food, and we want them to expand their ideas of what “good tasting” food can be. We would like to provide access to different vegetables that many of our students have never tasted or seen due to the limited food access in our community.

Monarch Learning Academy

An edible garden grant will allow our students to access nutritious produce during snack time, investigate where their food comes from, taste nutritious recipes, and pay it forward to two "adopted" low income families and our local food bank. The school garden will serve as an outdoor classroom where teachers apply lessons alongside the planning, planting, cultivation, and harvesting processes. We plan to use our edible garden to teach others how they too can grow their own vegetables and herbs through a blog.

Mendocino County Community School

The MCOE Youth Garden's learning objective is to provide students ranging from Preschool to 12th grade and their families: access to healthy fruits and vegetables, provide nutrition instruction, create and instill healthy lifestyle practices. The garden serves as an "outdoor classroom" and provides an ideal setting for students to learn agriculture, science, math, nutrition and a variety of communication skills while appreciating nature and positive community interactions.

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