Middle School

Jeffrey Trail Middle School

1. Goal: To establish student and community interest about the benefits of growing their own fruits and vegetables (i.e. environmental stewardship, improved nutrition, teamwork, and community cohesiveness).
a. Objective: Develop a garden space for students and community members to gain exposure to growing fruits and vegetables.
b. Objective: Cultivate partnerships with businesses and area residents to build community cohesiveness and a joint vision of health and well-being through gardening.

Polaris K-12

Our goal for the garden is to make it an aesthetically exciting and interactive extension to the classroom. We want to add apple trees and honey bees to provide a more interactive garden. Over the years, our students, teachers, and parents have slowly added to the garden. We want to ultimately expand our greenhouse and grow food year-round which would be served in the lunchroom. Our greenhouse would be heated and large enough for a class to be inside working comfortably.

MUSE School

Our garden has two main goals. The first is to educate and inspire our students to grow food and embrace a healthy lifestyle through proper nutrition. The second is to act as a resource for our community by providing access to free vegetables and knowledge to grow gardens. Our resident expert will teach and inspire our students to grow their own food. This will all be done with education intentionally built in to each step of the project. Building and supporting community is key to the success of our program.

Village Charter School

Our goal is to provide a fun and engaging outdoor space for students to learn about gardening, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and cooking, through hands-on activities. The garden is used as a learning laboratory, where we use every opportunity we have to help students understand where their food comes from and why it is so important for us to protect our environment and our bodies by choosing healthy foods. This grant will allow us to expand upon our current curriculum of garden education by creating a formal nutrition and cooking component.

P.S 007 Samuel Stern

The garden at P.S 7 is managed and funded by Edible Schoolyard NYC. The goal of the garden at P.S. 7is to provide an organic, four-season growing space and outdoor classroom on school grounds where ESYNYC staff can teach an interdisciplinary curriculum; provide programming for students, families and community members; and train teachers and principals throughout New York City.

Andrew Jackson School

We are engaged in a multi-staged project to develop an innovative "green" curriculum that will not only be a vehicle for academic excellence for our school, but a low-cost model for other under-resourced public schools in Philadelphia. This garden will be a resource for hands-on learning that will engage and inspire our students to master testable skills in order to engage with deeper learning. Our garden will be a special place, where our students will grow plants they can eat.

One Spark Academy

Our garden's goal is to help furnish our students lunches with a wide variety of delicious vegetable and fruit choices with an understand of where their food comes from. The pride that they possess from growing it, preparing it, and eating it is wonderful. The connection to the Earth, food, and how that just fuels them and makes them feel well.

Molalla River Academy

In each grade our goals are as follows: 1. Kindergarten: To use the garden as a tool to teach all five senses. Garden projects will be centered around art. 2. 1st/2nd Grade: The focus will be on recording observations and the understanding of basic requirements for life (sun and water). They will study annual and perennial plants and record what they notice about garden insects. Their garden job will include starting seeds and transplanting seedlings into the raised beds. 3.

St. Luke Catholic High School

Our goal this year is to create a three sisters garden. A three sisters garden consists of corn, beans and squash and/or pumpkin. These vegetables work together to grow well. The corn creates a structure for the beans to grow on. The squash and/or pumpkins create a natural weed barrier. The First Peoples grew their food like this. We offer Native Studies courses at our school and this garden will link with our program.

Lincoln Middle School

The primary goal of the garden will be to teach the children the possibilities that exist for them at their literal fingertips. The second goal is more personal. As we expect the garden to start as a project for a special needs class or grade level, this will provide excellent hands on learning with a clear beginning middle and end. The links from the garden to core curriculum lessons will be direct and easier to plan and teach thanks to the outdoor experience. Finally, we anticipate this garden creating a learning link between our students with special needs and our mainstream students.

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