Middle School

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.

Shiloh Academy

Our primary goal is to create a garden that provides healthy fruit and veggies for our kids while teaching them the values of hard work, treating the earth with respect and the responsibility it requires to maintain a garden. This school garden grant will provide the opportunity for our students to learn about what fruits and veggies grow well in our climate, experience the joy of eating food they've grown and the chance to connect with community members who will participate in helping our kids with the garden.

Bozman Intermediate

We believe this grant will allow our students many opportunities that they might not be able to find in the classroom. First, we know our students will benefit from the social skills and behaviors required to interact with other students on a team. A garden will provide our students with the chance to work together to solve problems and generate ideas for a common goal.

Hathaway-Sycamores School

The Garden Program will teach youth to grow and prepare their own food while promoting healthy eating habits. The gardens will improve the overall health of the children and youth we serve by providing access to fresh vegetables, engaging them in physical activity, as well as teaching them about nutrition and healthy eating habits. The youth in our school are from urban areas that have had limited access to open spaces and the ability to garden.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

The goals of our school garden are to provide our students with the experience of planning, creating, planting, maintaining and harvesting their own vegetables as well provide them a “real life” activity to learn and practice science, health and mathematics skills and concepts. The grant will also provide an opportunity to involve members of the community through garden volunteers.

Grace School

Grace Lower School is committed to providing our students with an enriching, hands-on learning environment. A school garden will give our students opportunities for first-hand experiences, observation and experimentation. The goal for our Grace Lower School garden is to empower our second graders with the knowledge and values to make food choices that are healthy for them, their community and the environment. We hope to develop in our students a sense of curiosity, the ability to work together as a team to complete a task, and a desire to share the fruits of their labor.

Liberty School

Liberty School is the only K-12 school in the town of Joes, serving both towns of Joes and Kirk in the high plains of Colorado.
Eastern Colorado is largely farmland growing expansive fields of grain crops. Ironically, in the midst of all this agriculture we are a food desert; we have no access to locally grown vegetables.
Our ultimate garden goal is for the Industrial Arts and Future Farmer's of America Programs
to expand the greenhouse programming from growing only bedding plants to growing vegetables to start a community supported agriculture (CSA) program.

Faith Chirstian Academy of Plant City

Our school's goal is to teach our children about our rich agricultural heritage within our city. Plant City, being the Winter Strawberry Capital of the US, has a great respect for farming and cultivating land. Our students would truly benefit from learning how to prepare, plant, cultivate and till their garden to produce healthy foods that we can share with our school, families and community. We want this learning experience to extend from understanding and documenting growth of foods to how we can provide substance for our community sharing harvest with our rural area.

Washington Institute for Specialized Educ

Washington Institute for Specialized Learning (WISE) has an existing school garden. WISE serves grades 6-12. The garden is managed by instructor Bruce Mathis. Students have a curriculum, practicums, and also watch the cooking of the food they harvest, then enjoy the bounty of eating. Students learn about organic, sustainable gardening practices (which are implemented in their school garden) and are encouraged to start gardens at home. Extra produce is shared with the students to take home, share with their families, and encourage healthy eating.

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