Upper Elementary

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.

Prichard Elementary

The goal of our garden is to provide an interactive learning experience for our students. We would like to expand our current garden to include a green house and learning lab. This would provide our students with year round learning experiences. Our current garden is small, but the students have thoroughly enjoyed participating in the planting and harvesting of the crops. With a larger garden, we would be able to provide more fruits and vegetables for our students to sample and take home. Our county will also allow us to use the harvest in the cafeteria.

Frankford Friends School

Many of today’s children, especially city-dwelling students like ours, are no longer able to spend unhurried hours exploring the natural world in the way that previous generations enjoyed. Yet, research is showing that nature play and exploration make essential contributions to children’s cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development. Natural “playscapes” like the one planned at Frankford Friends School are rich outdoor spaces, designed based on research and field-tested principles, where children can connect to nature in curiosity-driven, unhurried play and exploration.

Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School

Goals:
The goal of the Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School garden is to provide an area of our school that kids have an opportunity to extend their education in all subjects as well as work on life skills such as patience, cooperation and teamwork. The garden is also a place for our school community to learn about the environment and our impact as well as developing a palate for nutritionally dense foods. We are working towards creating a self sustaining food forest that will not only feed the students lunch, but their families dinner, as well.

Charleston Collegiate School

To educate students on the rigors and joys of growing organic vegetables and herbs. School curriculum is implemented for K-12, all students work in the garden. Vegetables are used in the school cafeteria.

Trinity Academy of Raleigh

Trinity Academy has two small raised beds on our campus that are designated to various grade levels. The students plant seeds, nurture the gardens, and harvest the produce year round. We utilize our crops for some personal use but also in donation form to organizations that will accept our produce. Our gardens parallel with our science curriculum as well as service learning. We would love the opportunity to have a garden dedicated to the entire lower school in order for all students to participate.

South Shore Educational Collaborative

Our goal for the school garden is to engage students by providing a dynamic environment to observe, discover, experiment, nurture and learn through hands on experience and direct connection to classroom curriculum. Our hope is to turn our courtyard into a garden to be a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from real life experiences and encouraging students to become active participants in the learning process. South Shore Educational Collaborative is made of up 4 programs and this garden will be a great opportunity to collaborate with other programs.

Mountain Valley School

The Mountain Valley School’s greenhouse has two main goals: to provide fresh, nutritious produce to the school cafeteria and serve as living laboratory space for k-12 science classes. This grant will fund resilient vegetable beds built of cedar and rich soil to fill them. The expected lifetime of these boards is around a decade: cedar resists rot. This will serve our first goal by providing a robust growing space for our vegetables.

École des Grands-Vents

The ultimate goal for our garden project is to create an environment where students of the École des Grands-Vents can actively participate in a school garden on a weekly basis, bringing them into greater contact with nature in order to better understand nutrition and the foods that they eat, which will enable them to have a more personal and intimate connection with food that will stay with the students throughout their lives and assist them in making healthy lifestyle choices.

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