Upper Elementary

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.

Linscott-Rumford

Our basic goal is that students will acquire some basic gardening and horticultural knowledge, learn about and appreciated where food comes from, work together in groups to help with leadership and teamwork skills, and ultimately they make smarter, healthier food choices outside of school and in their daily lives.

Belleair Elementary

The goal of Belleair Elementary’s garden is to make it a usable learning space for school classrooms. Our current garden contains 6 above-ground beds previously installed by The American Heart Association. Beds are assigned to classrooms and teachers help students maintain the gardens. Recently, the water line connecting water access to the garden area was accidentally cut. This grant will help us re-establish this water line as well as provide funds to purchase seating and other resources to begin establishing an outdoor classroom gathering area.

Franklin Elementary

This grant will enable us to repair our existing irrigation system, expand our irrigation to our small orchard, and add a solar-powered timer. There is no electrical access in our garden and we are currently operating a manual system. These repairs will allow us to maximize our water use and provide consistent irrigation to our entire garden. Our vision is to have a community garden in which students, their families, and community members work collaboratively to create a sustainable garden and provide experiences to promote good health and nutrition, and social responsibility.

Magnolia Montessori Academy

Magnolia Montessori’s FARM (Fostering Authentic, Relevant Montessori ) learning program provides a real-world, entrepreneurial education to its students in grades Pre-K through 6th. Through the creation and management of an agricultural business, Magnolia students will explore mathematics, language, science, and social learning through an experiential, standards-based approach. The FARM Learning program comprises a mix of agriculturally based learning opportunities including areas for raising fowl, growing produce using hydroponics and raised bed systems, and aquaponics.

The Children's Hour Academy

CHA makes learning a natural and fun process that involves the mental, physical and behavioral processes of every student. We believe that creating agricultural education in the form of a school garden would be an amazing fit to our pedagogical philosophy. It is critical for children to be empowered to grow their own food and in turn, possibly change the way our food will be produced in the future, and most definitely shape their personal food choices. Considering the nation’s problem with childhood obesity; we look forward to changing this trend at our school.

MTS Elementary

At MTS elementary we are focused on community. Our school as a community, but also extending that sense of community out word. We have two ultimate goals for our garden. Serving an urban population, our first goal is to immerse the students into the process that food goes through to get from the garden to the table. Keeping community in mind, every person within our school would participate in this process. This process would include making decisions about what goes into the garden, preparation for new additions, maintenance, as well as the harvesting and enjoyment of the products.

Wildflower School

Our garden goal is, essentially, to take what we already have and make it better. Seven years ago we started a garden in our school, turning an asphalt school yard into a diverse garden and play space with raised garden beds, a stage, and a story circle. We are now at a place where we need some additional support to push it further. This grant will help us further our garden goals by:
• improving and extending our irrigation system
• fixing up and optimizing the effectiveness of the wooden 3-bin composter we built

Suncoast Waldorf School

The Suncoast Waldorf School has approximately 50,000 Square Feet of potential garden space. It is comprised of existing gardens, play areas, and meeting areas. The school intentionally exists within a natural environment that plays significant role in how, when, and where the children learn. Melissa Manning has been trying to create a Food Forest. The effort has been incremental as monetary resources are limited and the food forest has not been incorporated into the school budget.

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