Upper Elementary

Northome School

The school garden committee selected the following as the goals for our garden committee:
1. Provide our students with fun and interesting experiences that are relevant to the real world.
2. Improve student diets with local produce for healthier living.
3. Teach students how to produce their own food.
4. Teach students how to preserve and prepare their own food.
5. Meet Minnesota education standards in science, health, social studies, and math.
6. Demonstrate gardening and diet techniques for parents and the community.

Valwood School

Our current garden is small, and has only 4 types of vegetables. The kindergarten class has had the most involvement. Our goal is to increase the size, and variety of plantings to create a "Rainbow Colors for Health" annual/perennial garden. This will allow involvement of all of our PUpper Elementaryth grade classes. The "rainbow colors" and associated plantings will include (but not limited to):
• Red: radish, strawberries, apple tree
• Orange; carrots, orange tree
• Yellow: summer squash, lemon tree
• Green: cucumber, spinach, lime tree

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.

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