Pre-Kindergarten

ESYNOLA, John Dibert Community School

Located right off the hustle and bustle of Orleans Avenue are the gardens at John Dibert Community School. These gardens showcase the entrance of the school and serve to welcome students, parents, teachers, staff, and butterflies alike! Daily and throughout the year at these gardens, the children and adults in our school community have the opportunity to delight in the harvest and smells of fresh herbs grown outside their front door, and keenly observe lizards and a variety of local and migratory butterflies who find their homes in our large habitat garden beds.

J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet PTO

The garden offers both students and teachers the opportunity to explore and interact with the natural environment in multiple disciplines including math social studies art and theater. Through expansion of the schoolyard vegetable beds and the addition of the potato towers more children will experience multiple lessons in the gardens (the existing six beds proved inadequate for the school community in 2011) and we will have more produce to contribute to our partnering food-shelf.

Hopkins Hill School

Creating raised vegetable garden beds at our school is helping us to learn about ecosystems in the real world, to learn about gardening and where produce comes from, and to have fresh produce for our lunch room. It allows us to donate to the community food bank and will help to make our school grounds greener. It will also allow for future learning about composting and water conservation. We are proud of the new garden shed and rain barrels that we added this year.

Harriet Tubman School

Through the Living Laboratory program Greater Newark Conservancy has brought Newark Public School children outdoors to explore nature. This garden is becoming a diverse and vital resource for the entire school community. Children are not simply observers of nature but active stewards both benefactors and beneficiaries of the produce of the garden. Cultivating the garden gives students a direct connection to where food comes from.

Goler Community Garden at the Downtown Health Plaza

  Our garden is located at a safety net health clinic has 65,000 patient visits a year.  The clinic serves Pediatric, Ob/Gyn and Adult Medicine patients.  The garden provides fresh produce to the clinics at no charge as well as providing learning opportunities for all the neighborhood.  There are regular workdays for all volunteers with special times for instruction on gardening.  Also there are cooking classes for all ages.

Greenbelt Middle School at the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom

Since the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens project sprouted in 2010, Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society (CHEARS) has established outdoor classroom gardens that are multi-generational, handicapped accessible, beautifully artistic, and are a great example showing how to grow local healthy food at home.

Grace Lutheran School

Our goals for Grace Garden are to create community service and educational opportunities and collaborative church and school relationships. This project will be service-oriented because a majority of the harvest will be donated to a local food bank. We will plant specific plants according to the needs of the food bank. As our relationship with the food bank grows, we may be able to do other service for them as a school.

Eugene Field Elementary School

Our goal is to empower students to become agents of change in their communities. We believe that the experience of working in the garden and the many skills developed including problem-solving future-thinking teamwork hard work etc. are keys to breaking the cycle of poverty that exists in the communities where we work. The Whole Kids Foundation grant will continue to make our presence possible as we cultivate deeper relationships with students and parents and invite them into the garden to work learn and teach.

Corvallis Environmental Center: Edible Corvallis Initiative

Our Farm to School programs makes connections between our food system and our school system. We work directly with school districts to procure and promote locally grown foods. Our program is working to increase the use of local foods, encourage our children to make healthy eating choices, and support regional farmers.

Alternative School - Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School District

The Alternative School in Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School district is where students are sent instead of expelling them so Project Oidag members TOCA and our Food Corps members weren't sure what to expect at first. It turns out that these are the sweetest students you could find and they have really responded enthusiastically to our weekly activities. So the garden is more than a garden for these kids. It's an oasis an affirmation and a place to succeed.

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