Middle School

Providence Englewood Charter School

The goal of the garden is twofold. First, we would like to teach the students of Providence Englwood Charter School (PECS) about where their food comes from and secondly, give the children the opportunity to work with their hands and produce something that has a tangible benefit.

Ray Bjork Learning Center

The Ray Bjork Learning Center has a very unique population that is comprised of Special Education Pqreschool, HeadStart, and Gifted and Talented students. With funding from this grant, students will be able to design and implement an outdoor learning garden that is accessible to all students. This is a way to bring these diverse populations together.

Darwin Elementary

The mission of the garden is to create a portrait of the diverse student body inside through the plants grown, signage created and love shown in its care. Our garden would proudly sit in front of the school with thriving vegetables and herbs with hand-painted signs in Spanish, Italian and English.

Parkway Middle School of the Arts

The goal of this project is to improve and expand our school's efforts to raise awareness of healthy food alternatives to our students, parents, and general members of our community. The grant will allow us to improve the quality of our previous efforts, increasing the size, diversity and yield of our crops. This will help us to teach a younger generation how to be self sufficient by exposing them to healthy food alternatives and positive outdoor activities.

Smith Middle School

In our first year (2011-2012), we started with three 10 square foot raised garden beds to practice managing a sustainable community garden. We did not have an outside water source, so relied on filling 5 gallon buckets to get us through a dry, very hot summer. Since then, we re-established an outside water faucet, enabling us to triple the size of our garden. We now have 9 raised beds, 10 square feet each. Our next goal is to expand our garden, building a greenhouse in an interior courtyard area that can be accessible to students throughout the winter.

Duluth Adventist Christian School

The goal of this garden is to help feed the Refugee stuents attending DACS and their families. The State of GA is one the states designated as a resetllment area for Refugees. Clarkston GA is the town most Refugees are resettled due to public transporation, climate, low housing cost and job opportunities. Over 100 different languages are spoken in this town. Clarkston is dubbed the Ellis Island of the South. It's the most diverse town in the US. Currently, approximately 10,000 Refugees residing in this town.

St Joseph

The primary goal of this project is to be able to reduce the sodium utilization being offered through the School Lunch Program. Several other goals I have set include learning how to dry and preserve plants, and expose kids to ideas on how salt, fat and sugar can be reduced when cooking foods at home. To achieve these goals, the premise of the project will be to start, develop and sustain a school herb garden.

Farming For The Future Academy, Inc

The goal I have with this grant is to build a 18x24 ft 3 season greenhouse. The "Onions for Autism...Veggies for Vets" program is a collaborative program between our students and the veterans residing at the Montana Veterans' Home. The greenhouse will allow both parties, community members, employees and the local elementary school to start seeds early, regardless of adverse weather conditions, to use in the 1/4 acre community garden. Many of our students and the elderly residents need to be outdoor, but have sensory issues to extreme weather.

Schmid

Our garden goal is for the school and community. We want to make people and students aware of healthy living. There is so much violence in our city. We want to instill the best choices of ways to spend time in our children. Healthy living starts with the thoughts, the air we breathe and taking care of the earth. This can be done with planting your own foods and eventually composting. Also taking care of the garden is taking care of the community. It is a form of empowerment and beautification simultaneously.

Christ Lutheran School

The goal of our garden's project is to take an unused space and make it a vibrant part of the school curriculum. We have planned a bed for each grade level, and one for the Girl Scouts who have committed to care for one planter bed. We also have room to add on for community groups once we get our school program rolling. We plan to donate extra produce to the hungry via the Church and the Utah Food Bank depending on how much we have to spare.

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