Middle School

Next Wave Junior High

Our goal is to provide an active growing space and on-site learning lab for Somerville's only alternative middle school. The school is designed to meet the special academic, social, emotional, and behavioral needs of adolescents who, for many reasons, have experienced difficulty in the traditional education settings. Though a garden infrastructure exists, it was built when the school was a temporary elementary school, and the growing space itself has been fallow for several years. In a significant way, this is a new garden for a new group of students.

Nightingale Montessori

Nightingale Montessori has an established cooking program with student participation that is part of our National Lunch and Breakfast Program. We have found that when children participate in the preparation of healthy food, they eat healthy food. We would like to expand this experience and include vegetables from a school garden into the cooking program. We have initiated plans to grow food to be utilized in this cooking program. We plan to expand to grow tomatoes and green beans with students.

St. Joseph Catholic School

Last year, the 6th grade class began a garden project in response to a unit on Environmental Science. This year, with help of the school and private donations, our (now 7th grade) class has a dedicated garden spot and a compost machine. The 7th grade students went to all of the other grades (pre-k to 8th) and presented information on what could and could not be composted and set up buckets around the lunch ramadas to be collected everyday and added to our compost machine. We have gone out and tilled the area and have some donated seeds. The students want to donate the food to the St.

Carter Developmental Center

Our school is for children with severe, intensive disabilities and complex health needs. We have existing garden space, approximately 32sqft of raised planters where we grow vegetables with our students (who are involved in the planting, weeding, watering and harvest of said produce), and 100 sq ft of ground-level perennial herb gardens. Our Garden was designed to create spaces that would provide opportunity for the practice of student learning objectives, which are already occurring within the school building. It is also place of peace and beauty.

P.S. 176x

Autism is not a disability, it is a different ability.The ability to teach our students about healthy eating, and teaching them to maintain a better environment for them to live in. If our students were to be granted the opportunity to become gardeners their confidence levels, social skills and environmental awareness would grow tremendously. Additionally, being able to embrace a higher level of responsibility and for the students to build a stronger self esteem which in turn coincides with better relaxation techniques and important sensory skills.

Sunrise Middle School

In an effort to meet the students' interests, Ms.Vazquez began the Gardening Club in the last months of the last school year. This year, there has been record attendance and a desire by the students to beautify the campus. This is a student-driven club that depends on donations from the community, but seeing as how most students qualify for a free or reduced lunch, it is a challenge.

Santiam Christian Schools

Santiam Christian's school garden is housed inside a large greenhouse and consists of eight four foot by eight foot raised garden beds. The garden's goal is to provide the JH/HS cafeteria and the elementary cafeteria with locally grown vegetables for the salad bar including lettuce, kale, carrots, peas and cucumbers. This will provide the school with a high quality product as well as provide education for the horticulture class in the raising and processing of food products.

Amelia Earnhart Elementary - Middle Scho

Amelia Earhart school believes in providing a wealth of activities that can reinforce and bring to life the concepts learned in the classroom. What better way to engage students in meaningful, relevant lessons, while still integrating manipulative, cooperative learning, and exploration and discovery, than a garden. The goals of the school garden are 3-fold. First, to teach the children concepts in science, and math while strengthening their character through teamwork, and helping shape their future through nutrition and health eating habits.

Rock Solid Refuge

Our garden is a very valuable resource to Rock Solid Refuge. It will be used to educate our students on healthy living and nutrition. It will also provide valuable work experience for students and is a vital source to providing nutritious meals year round within our program.

St. Pius X

The primary goal of our garden is to give our students the hands-on opportunity to learn, not only about how vegetables grow, but to give them the opportunity to work together as a class and understand how we have fresh produce. Our program to create and provide healthy snacks for the entire school and staff lends itself to sustaining our garden. It helps us focus on the importance of nutrition from a young age and steer their eating habits in the right direction. We want the children and parents to have a personal commitment to our garden and its success.

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