Middle School

North Middle School

North Middle School's Community Garden was first established as a partnership between Aurora Public Schools and the BRANCH. BRANCH is a University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus multidisciplinary student organization dedicated to becoming a sustained partner with Aurora communities by promoting, supporting, and implementing programs that encourage Aurora community members to take an active role in their own health and the health of their community.

D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy

Our goals are to obtain the necessary resources to enhance and sustain our existing school garden that was built on the campus of D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy last year by expanding community participation in the garden during the school year and summer months and increasing the hands on educational opportunities that we can provide for our students. When our school was opened last year, we began with 120 6th grade students who were all involved in the school garden.

Knob Noster High School

The goal of our school garden is a simple one: to help build a stronger bond between our school and our community. One of our district goals is to improve the relationship that our school has with parents and community members. This garden could be a helpful tool in allowing us to achieve our goal. By planting this garden we are not only educating our students on where their food comes from, but we are opening up an opportunity to bring the community to our school and share in a joint project. This project will also allow us to strengthen the relationship between our schools.

Ecole Entre-lacs

Our garden's goal is very simple: to provide a hands-on experience for all of our students (from the preschool to the grade 8 students) and to help introduce them to the concept of farming in town, to provide them with a place to gather outside and discover how to grow your own food. The garden will provide fresh produce to serve a salad bar for our students in May, June and September and will help a few different families in need every summer.

Midland Park Junior/Senior High School

The goal of the garden is to have students learn about soil, growing plants from seed, producing edible vegetables and fruits, plant care, propagation, sustainability, and composting as a form of recycling. Agriculture and farming to feed the world will be discussed. The garden will teach students how to garden and produce food to feed themselves and their families. Pollination by bees will be taught and the importance of bees in producing fruits and vegetables. The students will visually see the bees working in the garden to help understand how reproduction occurs.

Universal School of Life

Our garden goal is to keep developing our pilot program in order to reach more children in the neighborhood. The program also have an outreach goal where families are invited to participate to learn and grow their own organic food with their children. (and support the school to farm program) The project has a multi-discipline component to make it more attractive and more sustainable. An example of this is a play ground and/or obstcacle course just attached to the children garden area so children can share their time between garden activity and sport or play time.

Lincoln Elementary

Our long-term goal is to have our students help plant, maintain and harvest vegetables throughout the school year. Depending on the amount of vegetables we harvest, we hope to serve them in our school cafeteria for student lunches. In addition, we plan to sell the harvested vegetables to our school community when we have other events in the school, i.e. evening band concerts or open houses.

Princeton Friends School

Our garden's goal is primarily to create access for young students (beginning with 3rd grade) to make myriad connections between what happens within the classroom to what happens outside. Our school's Quaker foundation means that we begin this project with awareness of the importance of direct experience and observation as we encourage students to reach a deeper understanding of the value of stewardship and their connection to their inner selves as well as others.

Korematsu Elementary School

This grant helps us expand our gardening program to reach the younger Primary classrooms. It will also add a larger area closer to the playground which will make lunchtime & recess garden activities possible. Local school garden programs have also been talking with District Student Nutrition Services about growing vegetables for school lunches where the district would purchase student harvests. The lunchtime/recess space is integral to that plan.

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