Middle School

Palms Middle School

Our vision for the garden at Palms Middle School is that we will rehabilitate the current garden into a burgeoning and thriving hub for multiple education, recreation, and nutritional uses. The garden has lied fallow for several years and is overrun and is in need of attention. We will restart the garden program by immediately rehabilitating the current state of the garden with tilling the ground, importing nutrient dense soils and by increasing staff involvement and classroom integration for students. There are 14 garden boxes already in place.

Ray E. Kilmer Elementary

Our initial goal, is to purchase the garden tower this year and have a crop of plants planted before the school year is over. Our idea is to have each classroom plant something in each pod so that they will have an investment and interest in growing fresh foods. Additionally, we are planning to begin a Garden Club at our school which will work hand in hand with maintenance of our tower. This will ultimately raise awareness of growing fresh foods and will teach our students many things about eating what we grow.

South Atlanta Christian Academy

The highest number of dialysis treatments in the City of Atlanta occurs in the 30331 Southwest Atlanta zip code. Our goal is to create awareness and garden-based solutions to help reduce and/or eliminate chronic illnesses that require dialysis. Our plan is to duplicate Atwood

Countryside Montessori School

Countryside Montessori School has been part of the Northbrook community for more than forty years. Two years ago, we expanded our curriculum and facility to include seventh and eighth grade students. As part of the expansion of our facility, we designated space for gardens that we hope will be a primary source of work and learning for our middle school students.

Crestwood Elementary

The goal of our garden is to unite our community while feeding needy children in our school. We have approximately 75 students who are given food over the weekend. This food is pre-packaged and donated by a local church. It is the hope and desire of our staff to provide fresh fruit and vegetable along with donated food to keep our children not just fed, but fed healthy foods. This grant will make it possible for all of our children to experience the joy of gardening and the benefits of growing your own food across the lifetime.

Roseland Creek Elementary

The goal of our garden is to provide nutrition, science, and community education for 450 kindergarten through sixth grade low-income and English Language learning students.Teachers may find that the garden can provide space for other disciplines as well, such as math, history, or art. The main goals are listed here:
1. The garden will demonstrate to children how a project is first established, and then how it grows into a working entity that takes dedication and care from them in order to reap its benefits.

Yavneh Day School

We now have 3 garden beds assigned to the younger grade classrooms. Each classroom maintains independent gardens. Our vision is to have a school-wide JK - 8th grade garden that the students, teachers and families feels shared ownership and provides instructional value across grades, art classes and cooking club. This grant makes our garden expansion possible, both in physical space and curriculum design, creating a safer and user-friendlier space to accomplish this goal. (new tools and storage spaces, watering systems and protective fencing.)

Vancouver Waldorf School

As part of our Grade 3 curriculum, all students at this grade level plant, care for and harvest a small existing garden plot ("the Grade 3 Garden") as well as various apple trees on the school property. If we received this grant, part would go to enhancing our Grade 3 garden. Our school purchases organic produce from various farms and natural food stores, but we would like to have enough garden space for the children to harvest and contribute some produce to our classroom snacks, and community harvest soup event, and more.

Live Oak Charter School

Live Oak Charter School is a vibrant Waldorf-inspired school in Petaluma, Ca. As the school has slowly grown and matured, so have our grounds and programs. Last year, our community came together to plant a vegetable garden and pollinator garden for the nourishment and education of our students. In the coming year, we intend to expand the green space of our campus and convert a currently weedy, barren space into a small orchard of fruit trees.

Bolinas-Stinson School

The goal for our school garden this year is to fund a Garden Coordinator to support all K-8 teachers in creating a pilot garden program for the year 2014/2015. We have already applied for a County grant, two local grants (Bolinas-Stinson Community Fund and Bolinas-Stinson School Foundation), and our School Board has offered to fund between $3,000-$5,000 annually to support a school garden program to enhance science and outdoor learning in all grades.

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