Upper Elementary

St. George School

The goal of our garden grant to have the growth and development of our garden be a learning tool for all our students. We want St. George students to know what it means to be sustainable and healthy. Growing a garden can teach a kid (and adults) the value of nature to our world.

Dr. Lewis F. Soule School

For our student to be involved in the process of growing and sustaining garden's full cycle
teaching about healthy eating habits
importance of understanding food orgins
Donating to support community programs in need of healthy food options
Maintaining a garden from planting to harvesting

John Muir

Welcome to “The Garden of Delectable Edibles” This will be a place where children can get their hands dirty, snack on tasty plants, and learn how to grow food for themselves, for their friends, and for their families.

Our goal is to directly involve the children in the practice of growing and harvesting edible plants and to show them how fun and how easy it is to grow the food that makes us healthy, smart, and strong.

Wilchester Elementary School

The primary goal of The Wilchester Garden is to create opportunities that foster students’ ownership of healthy choices and lifestyles. Additionally, we recognize as an extension of our classroom, the garden offers a hands-on multi-sensory tactile experience that connects to a wider range of learning styles that enhance all curriculum. Further through the garden we plan to expand the student body's understanding of farm to table and the stages of food production, environmental stewardship as well as a more in depth understanding of nutrition.

PS 145 West Prep Academy

The WITS Tower Garden will be the primary feature of the WITS Green for Kids program, with the goal of increasing environmental awareness and develop sustainable practices in public schools. Because the Tower Gardens are mobile, students can connect to nature anywhere in their school, year-round. The Tower Gardens will be featured in the WITS Green Labs, hands-on educational classes on sustainability topics; used to support the WITS Culinary Labs; and also made available to teachers for use in their curricula.

Delaware Elementary

SUAC aims to build the relationship between our community and the food we eat. The DIRT (Dig In R-Twelve) gardens provide K-12 school children with educational opportunities that promote healthy lifestyles and environments through hands-on learning about production and consumption of locally grown food. The DIRT project addresses multiple needs within the community through education and outreach by creating and sustaining school-yard gardens in the R-12 district.

South Avenue Elementary

Hudson Valley Seed currently runs weekly core-curriculum integrated garden lessons for all 312 kindergarten through second grade students at South Avenue Elementary School. Hudson Valley Seed's weekly garden have multiple impacts on students. By growing vegetables students become excited to try them and ask for them again at home. By learning math, science and more with their hands in the garden, experiential learning can become integrated into the public school classroom.

Sheridan Elementary School

The garden will provide an opportunity to teach students: The basic of growing fruits, vegetables and edible flowers. How to use natural methods to grow and sustain edible plants. The science of botany(both traditional food crops and edible flowers). They will learn about the process and importance of photosynthesis. Easy and inexpensive ways to supplement their family's food resources. Social Responsibility by providing the less fortunate members of the community with much needed fresh vegetable and fruit.

Hope Academy Charter School

Our Hope Grows Garden will provide an interdisciplinary, hands-on outdoor classroom that facilitates learning, promotes healthy habits and reinforces strong community partnerships. As our garden is established, funding requested will extend/enhance the program for broader impact through the purchase of additional garden supplies (e.g., plants and planting materials) and outdoor tables for creation of “classroom” space.

Lee Academy Pilot School

The Lee Academy garden goals are to build a viable, sustainable vegetable garden for our entire school community to enjoy. We are in the start-up phase, so aside from the actual support needed to create and maintain a growing area, we are beginning to create a garden curriculum for all grade levels. In our K0-K1 (Pre-K) classes, an entire unit is dedicated to “Things That Grow”. Kindergarten and grade 1 classes also have entire units on “Living Things” that takes a more in-depth approach to studying the life cycle of plants and what caring for plants actually requires.

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