Upper Elementary

H.B. Wilson Family School

With H.B Wilson’s school garden, we seek to engage students in a variety of areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. The school garden project enhances classroom programming to provide nutrition education and hands-on sustainable agricultural practice, provided weekly by two FoodCorps service members. The garden is an accessible and hands-on tool for teachers to use with their students.

Wellfleet Elementary School

The goal of our school garden is two fold. The garden will provide increased access to fresh, nutritious produce, while providing a living laboratory that aligns to national science curriculum standards. While the science standards for grade levels varies, the kinesthetic instruction that occurs in the garden setting allows for deeper investigations of natural sciences and ecology.

University School of Milwaukee

Our School is fortunate to already have one garden thriving on our campus; this garden is used primarily by our Upper School students as an outreach project. The harvest of this garden is shared within the greater Milwaukee community in areas of need. Our Upper School students work with the Amani community, one of eight neighborhoods within four US cities receiving a BNCP grant, which seeks to catalyze community driven change in neighborhoods that have historically faced barriers to revitalization.

Orleans Parish 4-H

Orleans Parish 4-H is currently working with 5 separate schools to develop edible gardens.

Birchwood School

Our school garden is designed to help our students grow healthy food so that they can eat the fresh vegetable and herbs during lunch. Our school is a school that services the emotionally handicapped population for the Clarkstown Central School District. The students often have difficult home environments. Many do not have the means to eat a well balanced meal. The teachers in our program do not have a traditional lunch period. We eat lunch with our students. Our goal during the lunch period is to enhance nutrition.

Community Montessori

Our ultimate objective is for our garden to become self-sustaining and serve as a mainstay of our entrepreneurship, philanthropy, health and wellness, practical life, science, and history curriculum. In the short term, our goal for this year is to build a durable shed that will protect our tools from weathering, expand our blueberry crop, amend the soil for our five raised beds (4’x20’), purchase new seeds and plants, purchase new and replace old tools, purchase new herb seeds and plants for our herb garden, and create a butterfly garden.

St. Margaret Mary Catholic School

The initial goal is to expose students to gardening and eating more vegetables. The second goal is to improve the educational outcomes through hands-on learning and real-life application of math and science lessons. A third goal is to use the garden to build community in your school, and a fourth goal is to provide a place where families in the community can have their own gardens through the summer months. We have room to expand the garden if interest increases from other classes in the school or from more families.

E.M. Stanton Elementary School

The garden’s goal is to be a major experiential tool in the 4th grade science and health curriculum, with an emphasis on concepts such as water conservation and composting, as well as the long-term importance of incorporating local and organically grown fruits and vegetables into a healthy diet. By engaging this garden on a regular basis, students gain a greater appreciation for and understanding of their responsibility to maintain their environment, as well as the active role they do and can play in this process.

John M. Smyth Magnet School

This grant will make it possible to outfit our school greenhouse with soil, pots, grow boxes, educational materials and irrigation equipment that will help us maximize the amount of produce that students can start in the greenhouse and grow both in the garden and outdoors. Our goal is to bring vegetables that the students grow to the cafeteria for them to eat. Last year we had a volunteer who made it possible for 6th graders to start seeds in the greenhouse and we cooperated with a community garden nearby to have the seedlings moved outside to grow.

Monte Rio Union School

At Monte Rio Union School, approximately 85% of our students qualify for Free & Reduced Lunch. This means that the food and lessons around wellness that students receive are critical for their future well-being. Our Garden & Nutrition Program teaches nutrition through cooking, tasting, and gardening. Kindergarten-8 students are taught weekly, as well as students in After School. Students create a quarterly Garden & Nutrition newsletter, advancing skills in ELA, technology, and Common Core. We connect with local farms through CAFF.

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