Middle School

The Academy of International Studies at Rosemont

By receiving the School Garden Grant the Academy of International Studies will have the opportunity to allow the greenhouse on the school property to once again be a valuable and functioning space. The mission statement for our school is to educate each student to be a successful, productive contributor to society by providing powerful teaching and learning opportunities.

Orchard Lake Middle School

Since our most recent data shows that more than a quarter of our school population receive free and reduced lunch, we realize the great need to educate our students in a way we have never been able to educate them before. With an addition of an outdoor garden to our school property, we will be adding a unique classroom experience for our students to learn about growing fruits and vegetables. Most importantly, we plan to provide sustainable life skills that far exceed what we teach them in three years at OLMS.

Frank R. Conwell MS#4

The goal of our rooftop garden project is to continue to create an experiential outdoor learning laboratory with opportunity for investigation and study, to encourage a higher level of student engagement in the learning process, to encourage students to become involved in cooperative community projects, and to foster a deep connection between students and the natural world. These goals continue to enrich the lives of our inner city students by cultivating education in public health, nutrition and the environment. Students gain an understanding of food sources and nutritional value.

D.U.E. Season Charter School

With D.U.E. Season Charter School's garden, we seek to engage students in multiple areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. This school garden project will enhance a program that will provide nutrition education and sustainable agricultural practices. Through this outdoor classroom, students will be able to take away a number of important lessons from subjects that they would normally learn indoors.

Buena Vista Horace Mann

The BVHM garden was created in 2011 to accomplish 5 goals:
* Bring learning to life in an outdoor classroom
* Support science in a public schools
* Provide students with direct access to nature in an urban environment
* Foster 21st-century learning that emphasizes environmental sustainability and innovation
* Deliver standards-based, outdoor science education to public school students

White Plains Academy

The mission of Putnam County Schools is to produce individuals who serve and participate productively in society. The WPA garden works whole-heartedly toward that mission.

Teachers incorporate activities into daily lesson plans enabling them to reach students on another level, volunteers receive satisfaction from a successful service endeavor, and the community will ultimately become the benefactor from a project that has the potential to create gardens designed to provide abundant and healthy food choices for residents.

East Somerville Community School

We are starting our garden from scratch after a devastating fire severely damaged our school in December 2007. The old garden was destroyed along with much of the building. After nearly six long years of rebuilding, the school finally reopened this September.

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School

Our Garden of Eat-Um has evolved from a vision to reality, providing food for our school cafeteria, local food pantry, and a school fundraiser, in addition to countless learning opportunities. The Garden has bloomed via donations, volunteerism, community support, and sweat equity. We began with 15 raised beds, and have more than doubled those. We also have a 35-by-35-foot St. Peter's Plot for potatoes, carrots, onions, and rutabagas for a school fundraiser and use in our school cafeteria, a large community herb garden, and a new community bed for asparagus and rhubarb.

Washington Elementary

We would like to continue operating our current school garden. This garden is rented from the community garden plots and used to produce vegetables for our students to sample. This grant will enable us to continue renting the garden, as well as, purchase seeds in the future. New gardening tools will also need to be purchased, due to a new school garden coordinator being in place.

Edward Devotion School

Our garden is primarily used as a way to enrich a variety of curricula, as well as a vehicle for opening up students' awareness of local food/plant growth and cycles. We built the beds three years ago with PTO funding and Brookline Parks Department support, and this year we have a local Brookline Education Foundation grant for teacher collaboration in using the garden and creating curriculum tools.

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