Middle School

academy of world languages

Our school population consists of many refugee families from at least 40 countries. There are over 40 different dialects spoken. It is our goal to develop an international garden showcasing the many different cultures of our school community by sharing different plants and vegetables. At the same time, showing the students where food comes from. Many don't know things grow in the ground. They think it comes from the corner grocery store. We would like to share the produce with the school students and families and possibly selling our wares to the teachers (if successful harvest).

John Philip Sousa Middle School

Kid Power plans to implement its successful "VeggieTime" Program at Sousa. First, students will complete a comprehensive environmental science and health curriculum. Second, students will apply these lessons to school gardens which will serve as an outdoor classroom. Kid Power has just constructed one garden bed at the school and now plans to install two fruit trees, five edible garden beds and, one native species pollinator garden.

Manhasset Public Schools

Our gardens' goals are two fold:
On an individual level (children/teachers/parents), Planet Manhasset seeks to
connect people to nature, to foster awareness of healthy nutrition (including fresh vegetables and herbs in one's diet), and sustainable organic gardening practices to help protect our environment from unnecessary contaminants.

Glenfeliz Elementary

Glenfeliz Farm will allow us to expand our garden instruction from a few select classrooms to our entire school. With childhood obesity at alarming rates, we believe that health and nutrition instruction within our school is a vital step to help prepare our students for a lifetime of healthy habits. The farm to table nature of this garden will also allow us to open our garden to more community volunteers and to connect with our community on a greater level through our neighborhood farmer's market and outreach to our local restaurants.

The Village School

Our garden is a very lively part of our school community. One of our more immediate goals is to improve the efficiency of volunteer efforts, and make the garden more self sustaining. Like many school gardens in our region, irrigation is critical in the summer, and volunteers have poured many hours into summer watering. A reliable system will also allow us to cultivate more of our newly expanded garden beds. We also hope to lengthen our growing season and reduce the cost of vegetable starts with a moveable greenhouse.

Langford Elementary School

The Garden Project will achieve two goals:

Y.O.U., Inc. Educational Day Academy

The YEDA garden currently includes tomatoes, several types of peppers, and a large planting of basil. In addition to these raised beds Peter and the students have created an herb garden containing three different types of basil, rosemary, garlic and onion chives, thyme, tarragon, chocolate and spearmint mint and oregano. This project would allow the team to expand their vegetable offerings, since there is ample room to expand the number of raised beds on the school property.

Lockwood Elementary School

The goal of our garden is for it to be an educational and welcoming space that students and teachers feel comfortable using. We are so proud of our current garden, but in such a big space we have plenty of room for expansion. We are excited to create an "outdoor classroom" space and build a few more beds. We are also excited to put up the hoop house that was recently donated to us. We hope that with these changes, every grade can be involved in planting a garden bed and that teachers will feel better about using the garden as a teaching space.

Valley View Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to help educate our children and their families in understanding how their food is grown and how they can use it to learn healthy ways to use it. We want to expose them to new varieties of foods and to appreciate the need for eating healthy and making good choices.

Deroche Elementary School

The medicine wheel garden will be for reflection and healing in our community. It symbolizes the inter-connectectedness of all living things. The pillars of harmony, respect and balance make it an invaluable teaching tool in our predominant aboriginal community. We also encourage families to come and sit and reflect at the garden, to help be a part of creating something significant and long-lasting that will benefit all the community and teach our children about their culture. We anticipate school and community activities and ceremonies around the Medicine Wheel.

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