Middle School

St. Anthony Catholic School

The primary goal for our school garden is to immerse our students in the process of planting, growing and harvesting vegetables, so they may learn about and make healthy food choices. Our school is located in Mississippi, which has the highest childhood obesity rate in the United States. (http://www.childhealthdata.org/docs/nsch-docs/mississippi-pdf.pdf) Children will learn about where food comes from and what good vs. bad food can do for their bodies and minds.

PASC - BCSSSD

Our campus serves the special needs of learners with Autism. In September we were granted permission to run the school garden (has been unused for two years). The garden will have multiple functions for our learners. It will be utilized as a vocational program for high school students, teach our learners an age appropriate leisure activity, enhance social skills, provide opportunties for desensitization and food exploration as well as meeting NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards for science, health and nutrition in a hands-on method.

Winter Hill Community School

Will be using the school garden to help educate students about healthy foods, healthy eating, agriculture, sustainability, and how to better understand the process of how the foods we eat are grown This grant will make it possible for students at our school to get more involved with local organizations within the community (IE... supermarkets, local farmers, food pantries, and other green organizations).

Milton L. Olive Middle School

The middle school in our community has never had a food producing garden. There is a lot of food insecurity in our community and limited access to fresh produce. Having a garden will add fresh produce to the cafeteria menu and enable students to learn not only how to grow food themselves, but how to appreciate, prepare, cook and eat healthy fresh foods. The focus will not just be on having the garden, but also on how we can use the garden and its produce as a focal point for nutrition education at the middle school and for the community.

J. Albert Adams Academy

The goal of our garden will be to engage students in activities that promote healthy food choices, increase the awareness of environmentally friendly gardening, and enrich instruction in all content areas.

Oak Grove Middle School

Our goal is to turn a 50 x 50 foot area between two wings of our buildings into a thriving and verdant garden center for our school community. We would like to use this garden as a cross curricular launching point for projects including: Life science lessons on plant growth and biology, Mathematics lessons including area, volume and growth rates, and social emotional development by providing a natural and calming environment for students to work and grow. The food will ultimately be given to our students to expand and encourage a healthy lifestyle.

Spring Creek Elementary

The Todd County School District in Mission, SD is largely encompassed by the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. The reservation is mostly very rural and typically has the dubious distinction of having its major county, Todd, being included in most listings of the "top" 10 poorest counties in the US. Unemployment is epidemic throughout the reservation and the ensuing poverty brings a whole host of social problems along with it. Not the least of these is the affliction of being a food desert.

The Quaker School at Horsham

With this grant, we hope to expand our garden by at least 2 raised beds. Our garden has several goals: a hands-on science learning program; integrated cooperative learning experience; interdisciplinary curriculum. These goals all contribute to our philosophy that our students learn best by doing hands-on work in cooperative teams. These projects involve math, planning, critical thinking, collaboration, construction, as well as environmental science.

Audubon Charter School

Audubon Charter School's garden was severely damaged by Hurricane Isaac in 2012. Several garden beds were bordered with untreated wood that did not hold up during intense rains. We now have only three functioning beds, and the wood borders are disintegrating. We seek to replace the damaged beds, integrate garden activities into our curriculum and educate students in Pre-K through 3rd grade about growing healthy foods and living fit lifestyles. Garden-based learning is an excellent fit with our unique Montessori and French programs.

Chapin School

Our goal for our school garden is to allow every child in the school to experience the joy of nature, to use the garden as a learning laboratory across all disciplines and to teach the fundamentals of sustainable agriculture.
I it is hoped that students will be open to experiencing new foods when they are the ones who are planting and cultivating the crops.

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