Upper Elementary

John F. Kennedy Elementary School

The John F Kennedy School garden is an outdoor garden classroom. The goal of the garden is to provide a hands-on learning space for children in grades K-8. Teachers can use the space for any and all subject matter from science to English and mathematics to social studies. This garden is a part of our larger Farm to School Project. Through this project, we work to Empower Mindful Eaters through a variety of programming including the school gardens.

St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Our hope is to implement a new, sustainable garden at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, as well as revitalize pre-existing garden areas. These gardens will serve as outdoor gardening classrooms and safe, green spaces for the children to spend time outdoors at school. The garden program seeks to enhance the nutrition and sustainability education components at St. Andrew's. CNGF trained college interns will teach the FOSS method using hands on science techniques and garden props.

Creative City Public Charter School

Creative City Public Charter School is a new, progressive, parent-founded elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland. Creative City opened in 2013, and uses Baltimore City’s natural and built environments and communities as a foundation for learning. Our school builds on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based, arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed critical thinkers. An Outdoor Classroom has been an important part of our school’s vision since before we opened. The Outdoor Classroom serves as our school and community garden as well as a natural play space.

Short Elementary School

The goal of the Short School Garden project is to create a unifying center for our school community that brings together families and creates an outdoor classroom where teachers can incorporate hands-on learning. Our garden will transform an existing school parking area into a vegetable garden that produces food for our needy families and opportunities for parent involvement.

Rumney Memorial School

Our vision is to create a vibrant, accessible outdoor classroom that: provides opportunities for hands-on and experiential learning across curriculum; promotes good nutrition by providing students with a variety of fresh, healthy food; and serves as a living laboratory to study food systems/food security in our community.

Nathan B. Young Elementary

We have garden beds since 2009. We have been growing fruits and vegetables to share with the students and community since we started. Our main goal is to teach students how to make healthy choices for their meals. Our goal for this grant is to fix the garden beds because they are beginning to fall apart. If we don't reinforce them I' m afraid they will not support the growth anymore and we will have to close the gardens all together. We want to build concrete boxes around the existing beds and refill them with dirt and new plants. We want to make the gardens beautiful again.

Northeast Elementary School

Northeast Elementary School has a unique opportunity to encourage and educate both children and their families in promoting healthy eating habits, thereby reducing the rate of obesity and overweight children. Nutritional education and wellness activities will be incorporated into interactive and fun classroom and after school programs. These might include cooking classes, where children learn to make smoothies, soups and simple meals. Additionally, exercise clubs will be incorporated into before, during and after school programs.

Syringa Mountain School

The Syringa Mountain School aims to showcase a community and student empowered garden space. The gardens serve as a learning lab for students, parents, and staff alike. Unique to the school's experiential curriculum is vegetable and herb propagation, seed saving, food preservation, medicine making, composting, plant identification and other practical skills. Central to the gardens are bio-dynamically prepared composts and teas that enhance soil life.

Vanscoy

Over the past 2 years Vanscoy School, a rural school just outside of the city of Saskatoon, has been creating an outdoor classroom to be used by all classes at the school from Kindergarten to grade 8. The space was designed to be fully accessible to all members of the community, but is especially used during outdoor education classes which all students at the school participate in. After completion, the outdoor classroom will feature a covered learning space, green areas for learning and working together, and raised beds for planting vegetables and fruit.

Elkins Primary School

Our goal it to help students to form a connection with their food by understanding where it comes from and to promote a love for healthy snack options. We live in an area that is somewhat inundated with fast food, and there are also many kids on the free and reduced lunch program who may not have adequate access to a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. We hope to encourage a love for healthy food and to build a foundation for healthy food choices later in life.

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