Middle School

Da Vinci Waldorf School

Having the right person with a passion, plan and experience, the land to make it happen, and a community of support make the perfect mix for a successful garden curriculum. Now students in all of our grades can experience firsthand how food is grown, harvested, and prepared into meals. Their hard work and patience with the growing process will develop a respect for and understanding of nature and farmers. Funding for this program via this grant will sustain and expand the efforts that have already begun.

Odyssey School

If we are awarded this grant we will be able to bring our vision to life, literally. The Studio Arts
team, along with our community partners, have developed a plan to beautify our school grounds.
We have an above ground plot that needs attention so that we can grow vegetables. Next, we
want to create some containers near the kitchen where we can grow herbs. We
want to create smaller gardens in the front of school with drought tolerant
plants. We want to use what we grow to cook and create in the art and kitchen spaces at

Cookson Hills Christian School

Each year, our garden gives 14 to 24 at-risk secondary students a chance to develop, grow, and market organic crops. It also lets them experience what it is like to raise a garden for home produce.

Our goals are to maintain these opportunities and expand the program to serve our elementary students, as well. Ideally, we could make the program available to 50 students. In addition, we would like to teach sustainability and environmental consciousness through composting.

Fonda-Fultonville Central school

The goal of our school garden club is to create a sustainable vegetable and herb garden. We are going to increase the size of our current very small garden. A grant to provide a greenhouse would enable us to start our own seeds and allow us to produce extra plants which we could plant and also sell as a fundraiser to help maintain the costs to sustain our garden.The food produced in the garden will be used by the cafeteria staff for the school lunch program. We would like to provide fresh salad vegetables 3 times weekly on a monthly basis throughout the growing season.

REACH school

• This grant will make it possible for all 50 students enrolled at REACH school, many of which have some form of developmental delay (i.e. autism, downs syndrome, fragile X, etc.), to build an awareness of where their food comes from. Many of our students consider the grocery store to be the main source for food and produce, and as educators we find this very problematic. The edible garden grant would enable us to provide hands on opportunity for our students to learn about the cycles of food production, and they would participate in every step along the way, from seed to soil.

Anderson Academy of Mathematics and Scien

The primary goal of the AAMS school garden is to allow the students an opportunity to study and grow plants.
Students will learn where food comes from and how to care for living organisms in their community. All subject areas will be addressed in this program.

Taos Waldorf School

TWS seeks funding to transform our education through the ongoing development of our 11 beautiful acres of agricultural land at the foot of Taos Mountain. This involves the expansion of our edible garden, the refinement of a curriculum weaving the garden into our student's daily education, and the promotion of healthy dietary choices. Young children may sing songs about the garden, or plant seeds, while from the same garden the upper grades learn botany, biology, commerce, and so on.

Richard Green Central Park School

Our school is a pre-K to 8th grade public school with a many bilingual students and a high poverty rate. We are located in the heart of Minneapolis, with a wonderful lawn and park space surrounding us. We would love to put this space to use for our students! The goal for our school garden would be to help educate our students (through science, social studies, and other content areas) as well as introduce our students to nutritious, fresh food.

Imperial Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to offer our special education students the opportunity to experience the gardening process from beginning (soil preparation, fertilization, seed starting) to end (plant recycling, composting, consumption). The garden will also allow for extension of other curricular focuses, such as selling garden produce to learn about commerce/ money management for Math, etc. This grant will make it possible for us to continue to build our existing garden into a functioning and sustainable food source.

The Next Frontier Academy

The Next Frontier Academy is planning to open up a hydroponics growing room in our school. We are an agricultural non-profit charter school that strives to provide agricultural work opportunities for our students.

We have a received donations from a partnering organization, including much of our needed hydroponic supplies for our growing room.

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