Upper Elementary

San Luis Elementary

Through this grant, our school would like to offset the obesity cycle among our youth and create an environment that teaches the importance of nutrition through gardening, enhances the school educational curriculum by making it engaging for students, teach healthy behaviors as a family unit and offer fresh produce in a community otherwise considered a food desert. This is especially important because 75% of the adult population within Maverick County (Eagle Pass is the county seat) is considered overweight or obese and 13% have been diagnosed with diabetes (Texas DSHS BRFSS, 2010).

Environmental Charter School

The ECS Edible Schoolyard's (ESY) mission is to build connections with students, families, and the larger community through garden and kitchen experiences that foster compassionate citizens who feel empowered to make healthy food choices for themselves and increase access to healthy food for others. ECS values the whole child and honors students’ mind, body, and spirit through its holistic approach to education.

We envision the ECS ESY to:

Polson Middle School

We finished our first successful growing season in our school garden & saw so much excitement, wonder & curiosity from the students/staff involved! Our current goal is based on the joys, trials & tribulations we faced during the year experiences. To keep our garden successful & growing in interest, we would like to:
-expand our growing capacity by building more raised beds in our current garden area.

George Keverian School

The Keverian School Garden is a resource to help students learn about healthy eating habits. The after-school Garden Club and the elementary health classes maintain the garden. Through a hands on approach, students learn about the different parts of the plants and the growing process. They learn about nutrition and healthy eating. By growing their own herbs, fruits, and vegetables students get excited about trying new healthy foods. This grant will allow the school to purchase supplies and plants needed to maintain the garden.

Northeast Elementary

A+ attitude brings about change
In creating a viable learning environment for our students, we at Northeast Elementary are creating a nine month pilot program in which we are teaching our students to become productive members of society through learning, application and service. We will accomplish this by creating a three tier approach
The first tier is education:

Oglesby Elementary

Oglesby Elementary is located in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood on the South side of Chicago. Montessori-style education has been integrated into the school and currently serves as an option for students up to the 6th grade. In early 2014 Montessori teachers initiated our school garden, as hands-on and experiential learning is integral to the Montessori style. However, we recognize that the garden has the potential to benefit the entire school and the surrounding community.

Live Oak Waldorf School

The LOWS Food Production Program was initiated in 2012 to integrate food production with education & community building, incorporating row crops, greenhouse, orchard, composting & animal husbandry.

Grandview Elementary

We love gardening at Grandview school! Currently, we have 15 , 4X12 garden beds that are on the school grounds and assigned to all the classrooms from Kindergarten to grade 7. The goal of our garden is to continually engage kids through hands-on learning so they develop the valuable skills needed to plant, tend, harvest and then share. This program runs completely by donation and grants. In the past,funding from Adopt-a-School and Farm to School have made it possible for us to run this wildly successful program year round.

Robin Hood

The purpose of the Robin Hood School Edible Garden project is to provide an outdoor opportunity to the students to learns about food origins and biology (such as plant development and butterfly development), and to provide a calm, natural place for reading and art.

Memorial Spaulding

Memorial Spaulding does not currently have a vegetable or herb garden on the school property. Our community is very enthusiastic about developing and maintaining such a garden. Our initial project will be to work with our community partner, Newton Community Farm, to build the garden and introduce the concept to our students. Our long term goal is to work with teachers across the grade levels, as well as our district science coordinator, to identify and extend curricular connections.

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