Middle School

Littleton Academy

Our goal is to complement the students' class room education with hands-on experience in earth and biological sciences. Expanding our existing garden by adding a hobby greenhouse would enhance the learning experience of students at all grade levels. Raising edible plants will encourage the student community to make healthy choices, learn how food reaches the dinner plate, and encourage fundraising, and philanthropy.

Hampden Academy

Our proposal for our project is to continue growing our community garden for our school, students, and their families. This has proved to be successful and a great learning experience the past few years, and has been therapeutic for individual and family therapy, and group therapy. With this garden we use it as a tool to help educate on health, nutrition, and care, team building, and developing a therapeutic coping tool.

Benjamin Fairless Elementary

The goal of our garden is to help facilitate levels of learning for the students that are involved and help them to understand that something as simple as a garden can impact the people around them in different ways. Level one- awareness of self and the impact you can have on things around you. Level 2- understanding how the garden can have a positive affect on the people around us and our school. Level 3- using our knowledge and the garden's product to contribute to our neighborhood.

All Saints Catholic Academy

The goals of the ASCA Garden have been to foster a sense of ownership and responsibility in the students through hands on care for their garden, and to beautify our urban space. We strive to make this activity an asset in the classroom as well. For example, the 6th grade science lesson was able to see all the stages of growth of the pepper plant as well as enjoy pesto sauce in the classroom made from the basil they grew. We hope to provide vegetables to the local food pantry next year, and would like to explore participation in a farmers market.

Lac qui Parle Valley

Our first priority is to educate and inspire our students with the use of our passive solar greenhouse. This student-led project has directly involved over 100 students in the planning and building phases. Once we begin to produce greens our students will be able to enjoy healthy, fresh, organic salads grown in their own backyard. The greenhouse will be used as an ecducation tool to extend the classroom as the students learn real-world applications of the growing process.

Irondale Middle School

Our goal is to introduce kids to good nutrition and growing a garden for food and beauty. Secondary to that but equal in importance is to help kids learn hands-on science, food science/cooking from your garden, writing about a step-by-step process, and we will also use math skills with our garden. My personal goal for the garden is to give kids an experience of being connected to the earth. Many of our students have never planted a seed and I would like for them to have the opportunity of germaninating a seed.

Two Rivers School

The goal of Two Rivers Sustainable Farm (TRSF) is to improve the long-term well being of our students, families, school community and the greater Snoqualmie Valley. The four measurable outcomes intended are:
1. Increase 4-year cohort graduation rate.
2. Increase teen parent 5-year cohort graduation rate.
3. Increase passage on Mathematics end of course exam.
4. Increase passage on Biology end of course exam.
5. Increased attendance.

South View Middle School Courtyard Garden

Our overall project goal is to develop an under-utilized courtyard area into a vegetable and herb garden starting in the 2013-14 school year, and to use the garden as a living laboratory to enrich middle school student learning.

Gulfstream Middle School

There are a few gardens on premise right now but we need to expand the program.

Our goal is Gardening Program to educate students and their families on how to grow and care for their favorite fruits and vegetables. We plan to teach them students how to plant what they eat and to eat healthy. Teaching them about different vegetables and how to prepare it in different ways and that is can be healthy and delicious at the same time.

Western Middle School

The goal of the garden is to teach middle school children the importance of healthy eating by showing them how to grow, harvest and prepare food. Our hope is that they will take these concepts home and share them with their family. While we are only in the first few months of the program, we have seen considerable excitement and interest from the kids. We would like to expand on this momentum by planting 40 native blueberry, raspberry and blackberry fruit bushes around the school property.

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