Upper Elementary

Burns Latino Studies Academy

Summer of Solutions Hartford is a youth leadership development and food justice program based in Frog Hollow, Hartford. We built a school garden at the Burns Latino Studies Academy, our local community school, in 2012.
Over the past three years, we have worked with teachers and students to care for the garden and harvest the produce. We worked with teachers to write activities in the garden which complemented what their students were learning in the classroom. Each year, we work with 10 classrooms for at least four sessions.

Sugarland Elementary

Sugarland's Inside Out Garden is a powerful educational and environmental tool. Through gardening, our students have an opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the natural world. It provides our impoverished students their first opportunity to dig into dirt and watch plants grow. In addition, the garden provides broader life lessons including contributing to students' knowledge of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Because Louisiana is experiencing an epidemic of child obesity and weight-related diseases, the need for prevention education is critical.

Sparkman Junior High

Our goal with this grant for our garden is to plant, care for, harvest and serve fresh wholesome foods for our student's and community. Our student's in each grade k through 8 will adopt an area or planter box in which to plant a selected seed. We as a school are very excited in the opportunity to create and actually eat a food that we have grown. We plan on growing a large enough crop so that our student's can harvest and share part of this crop with their families. This project will be a huge lesson in caring for our community and giving back to them.

Mountain View Elementary

Our goal is to create a garden space where displaced and low resource families can have grow boxes, elementary school students can have outdoor science opportunities, community learning center clients can have a quiet moment, and the entire community can come together in an inviting space in a low resource inner city neighborhood. 90% of Mountain View's 649 students are low resource, 58% are English language learners and 31 native languages are represented in the school population. 86% of the children are 'minority' making this a minority majority school.

Minnie Hughes Elementary School

Here at Minnie Hughes, we plan to use our garden for teaching and experimenting purposes. Our students come from a very low income area, and healthy foods and gardens are rare. We would like to use our school garden to meet the needs for some of our Science standards, as well as allowing students to try different foods, and be proud of what they have grown.

Barringer Academic Center

The proposed garden is a critical teaching tool, designed to mitigate the diet-related issues faced by children in Barringer Academic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The vision of this garden is to revitalize the concept of a kitchen garden. Historically, kitchen gardens allowed families to achieve economic independence and household security, which is crucial for this community. This garden will allow children to have regular access to real food which they will be more likely to consume since they were integral to the growing process.

Old Post Road

Our goal is to help kids realize the importance and benefits making healthy choices and keeping fit. Our garden supports the goal by allowing students to have a hands on learning experience and be active participants. Our teachers are able to use the garden as a way to learn as it supports our science, math and health curriculum with activities they can do in the garden. We also want the gardening project to be part of our larger community We are currently involving our local seniors and students from our local agricultural school with the garden along with our students.

Roswell North Elementary

The goals for our garden are to expand learning opportunities, increase academic achievement, and help students reach their full potential. We will provide creative outdoor learning environments such as outdoor classrooms and garden areas to support our school's project-based STEAM-focused education.

Phyllis Ruth Miller Elementary School

Phyllis Ruth Miller Elementary School started its “Outdoor Garden Class” three years ago with just two teachers with a vision and two container beds. The garden has since become a symbol of unity for students, teachers, parents and community members. The “Outdoor Garden Class” presently has seven container beds and its once barren surroundings have been replaced with beautiful trees and outdoor seating. Students can tend the garden or sit to observe and learn about the vegetables they’ve studied and planted. We are proud to say that much has been accomplished a short period of time.

Academie Da Vinci

We hope our garden will start a chain reaction in terms of wellness at ADV & in our community. Once parents, staff & students start thinking about health & nutrition, we can build upon that, making changes in our cafeteria as well as in our own kitchens. By adding new elements such as a rain barrel & compost bin, we plan to make our garden more sustainable every year. This opens the door for students to explore environmental stewardship, something vital to the survival of future generations on the Earth.

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