Upper Elementary

Parkside Community School

“Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their colored blossoms. They find their greatest pleasure in acting, in knowing, in exploring, even apart from the attraction of external beauty.” Dr. Maria Montessori

Alexander Valley Elemetary School

After 25 years as a parent volunteer based program, the Alexander Valley School Science Garden now has a credentialed garden teacher hired by the district. With this new wave of commitment and energy, the funds of this grant would go towards the implementation of basic garden kitchen supplies. Not only would the students use these supplies to process and cook foods that they grow, but the larger school community would also be able to use it for festivities based on cooking wholesome and healthy foods from the garden.

Quest Montessori School

The intention of the gardens at school is that the children (toddlers through eighth grade) will decide what they want to grow and what to do with their yields. Each of the six classrooms will have a designated bed and the children will be their primary stewards. We hope to grow enough food to feed their class snacks or supplement their home packed lunches. We also have a micro business that the middle school is responsible for implementing and we would like to see any excess produce marketed and sold to our school community.

Cherryfield Elementary

Cherryfield Elementary seeks to increase the size of our school garden, incorporate season extending modifications and begin vermicomposting to increase fresh food production for our school lunch program and increase educational opportunities for our students. We will expand our school garden from three, 4x8' raised beds to nine so that each class K-8 is able to plant, maintain, harvest, and plan curriculum around their individual beds.

The Ivy School

Here at The Ivy School, we believe children have the inherent right to a true nature connection, that this connection is not only imperative to each individual's identity, but to our future as a human race. It has been said before that children do not suffer from A.D.D.(attention deficit disorder), but rather from N.D.D.(nature deficit disorder), and we truly believe that this is the case for many individual students of our current paradigm. We live in a very urbanized and gridded section of Portland.

Meeting Street

The goal of the Meeting Street school garden program is to improve academic outcomes for our students by integrating different curricular areas into an outdoor learning environment. A Whole Kids Foundation grant of $2,000 will provide Meeting Street with the means to expand our current school garden program into a centerpiece for an integrated community-based curriculum.

Live Oak Learning Center

Plant It, Grow It, Eat It! this is the goal of our school gardening project. Odyssey After School has been blessed with a new campus where there are existing raised beds and several acres that are available to us to develop our garden.The only missing component is money! Odyssey is located in South Texas and we deal with the huge problem of childhood obesity and diabetes that is prevalent in our area. It is Odyssey's goal to introduce our students to healthy food choices, the joy of growing ones own food and the results of planning and consistency needed to accomplish a good result.

Moanalua Elementary School

Moanalua Elementary School is requesting $2,000 to support the school’s vermicomposting bins and vegetable garden that is part of the third grade student’s science curriculum.

Butler Elementary

The Butler Garden space has laid dormant and over grown for 3-4 years. Our initial goals are:
1. To provide 120 Fifth grade students, in the middle of a metroplex, a space to cultivate soil through composting, and to plant edible vegetables and herbs they can water, weed, grow and harvest each Winter and Spring.
2. To provide a place for community members to share their gardening expertise with a student groups of scouts or future garden club participants.

Donnelly Elementary School

The goal primary goal is to improve healthy eating habits in our 120 students by engaging them in growing their own food, trying new fruits and vegetables learning about nutrition and how to grow food at home. Additionally, the garden already has provided tremendous opportunities for cross curriculum learning and community involvement. This grant will allow us to install an irrigation system that makes summer maintenance easier and also purchase grow lights to enable classes to start seeds in the spring.

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