Middle School

The Calhoun School

Last year we purchased a Tower Garden for use indoors. This year we purchased two more. The vertical tower allows for 28 plants to be grown aeroponically in a 2.5 square foot space. Our goal is to purchase two more towers with this grant. One for us and one for our partner school in the Bronx, The Family Life Academy Charter School. We plan to place the towers in classrooms so that the process of growing plants is part of the life of the school day rather than an added program.

Bhaktivedanta Academy of North America

Our school has had small square foot gardens for the past 2 years. With new classroom buildings now in place, we are planning to expand the garden area, incorporating permaculture systems, fruit trees and other perrennial plants, in addition to constructing new, more permanent square foot gardens for vegetables. This grant would allow us to set up the proper foundation for the area, purchase trees and plants, and purchase necessary materials for constructing the square foot beds and soil mixture.

James F. Doughty School

We plan to plant a raised bed garden on the school grounds at the James F. Doughty Middle School in Bangor, Maine. The goal of the garden is to supplement student learning as well as contribute to students' health and wellness. The James F. Doughty School serves Grades Middle School in Bangor, an urban service area within a largely rural part of the state of Maine. Sixty-five percent of the students at the James. F. Doughty School are eligible for free and reduced lunch, and many of these students do not exhibit healthy eating habits.

Alexander Youth Network

The goal of this project is to better utilize the garden as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of 72 children we serve as part of our residential and outpatient behavioral health programs. Gardening was chosen as one of our enrichment activities because it aligns with our view that healing happens when we treat the whole child – emotionally, physically, cognitively and socially. Gardening is a purposeful, constructive activity that targets each of these areas simultaneously. The ancillary goal of improving our garden is to expand supply to our community partner, Friendship Gardens.

Hinsdale Public School

Our school is developing a farm to school program so the students can learn to grow their own food. Our goal is to increase food literacy and change the food culture of the community. Over 90% of the food consumed in the community is imported from other regions. Very little local food is produced in the area. The community is located between two Native American Indian Reservations in eastern Montana, the area is one of the largest food deserts in the USA. The Agriculture department in the school is trying to grow the grower to help correct the lack of a healthy food network in the region.

The Peak School

The Peak School's mission: we seek to ignite passion for academic exploration and to cultivate learners who think critically, act with integrity, and inspire others. Students of diverse talents and backgrounds build a sense of identity and embrace their roles as local and global citizens. The Peak School Greenhouse classroom, at our high altitude of 9,100ft in Frisco, Colorado, will provide unique opportunities for students to engage in meaningful studies on resources and sustainability and gain understanding about the impact and importance of locally grown food.

Oak Grove Montessori School

The Oak Grove Montessori School Greenhouse and Community Service Project has been born our of a desire to connect the amazing community service work that the students do here with our greenhouse. The goals of our garden is to teach and learn the science of gardening and growing. Our garden and our greenhouse are referred to as the "outside classroom." We then are connecting our community service efforts to the harvest. The grant will allow us to keep up with the equipment and materials we need to continue to grow this amazing garden and community service program.

Newark Christian School

Newark Christian School (NCS) has been operating K-8 since 1984, in a poverty stricken area of Newark, New Jersey. For years our teachers have wished for a school garden, some years using a vacant lot on the street. Having our own school garden will enable practical lessons in science, history, and health, getting their hands dirty and tasting the fruit of their labors in a concrete ridden city where few families attempt to grow food or incorporate many vegetables into their diets. Our goals are:
1) to ignite a passion in kids to pay attention to what food goes in their body

Kotlik School

Our school garden's goal is to provide cost effective fresh produce to our students' families. We live on the edge of the tundra, and though fresh meat and seafood is abundant, fresh vegetables come at a premium at the local store.

Galiano Island Community School

The Galiano School Garden is coordinated by the Community Food Program, part of the Galiano Club. The Food Program builds community by growing, preparing, preserving and sharing food. Strengthening island food security, we value collaboration, inclusiveness, healthy growing practices, sustainability and equal food access for all. The garden is the outdoor classroom where we involve community members and integrate learning. With this grant application, we request funds for the continuation of our School Garden program, started by a teacher in 1992.

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