Upper Elementary

West Boundary Elementary School

At West Boundary Elementary School our goal is to involve the students in growing food and learning about the process of growing; from soil prep to planting to care and harvest. Our school is in a rural community and we have an annual Harvest lunch in the fall for students, family and community: this year the green team harvested pumpkins from the garden and students were taught to process them. The Grades 4,5,6 & 7 classes baked pumpkin desserts for the Harvest lunch which feeds over two hundred students and community members.

Mountain Oak Charter School

We would love our school garden to produce many vegetables to be used by the students to learn to cook with and create meals. As part of our school's curriculum we teach our students farming, gardening and cooking. We have two wonderful areas for our school garden, the front area for the lower grades and the back area for our upper grades. This grant will help us a great deal in retaining and creating beautiful and abundant gardens for our entire school community!

Lafayette Elementary

Lafayette is an urban school. Every bit of green provides relief to the asphalt and an opportunity to experience gardening opportunities that are otherwise unavailable to many of these kids.
This is an ideal time to revitalize the garden because the school has finally been able to add locking fences to the area which was previously vulnerable to vandalism. The school is on a main street and the garden area has long been unsecured, making it difficult to invest our already stretched time and resources into an unlocked area.

Hillside Elementary

The goal of our garden is to incorporate different subjects within our curriculum. The garden will bring a hands on approach to teach children about farming, soils, organisms, vegetables, recycling and healthy eating. The first graders at Hillside will learn about caring for a garden beginning in the fall and continue through the spring ending with our Organism unit in science and our reading program, "Away we Grow", from Learning By Design. The garden will also be directly under our Green roof. The children will be doing lessons that also incorporate Math and Writing.

Oak View Elementary

The purpose of our grant is to educate our students on the process of growing healthy food from ground preparation to harvest. Students will prepare soil, plant seeds, water plants, pull weeds, make observations, harvest and then eat the garden foods. They will be educated on what types of foods can be grown during each season. Our students will understand the reward and value of growing one's own healthy food and the nutritional value of doing so.

Bowen Elementary School

The Gardening Committee’s goal is to teach the kids about the seed to plant to vegetable process. In many cases, it is the first time the children see where vegetables come from and how they are grown. Once in the fall and once in the spring, each of the grade levels take turns planting in the garden. Many of our gardening supplies are very old, and need to be replaced. This grant will make it possible for us to continue our Gardening Committee.

Martin Petitjean Elementary

The school garden at Martin Petitjean Elementary will serve as a useful teaching tool. When used as outdoor laboratories, this school garden will enhance students' knowledge of where food comes from, how food is grown, plant life cycles, nutrient cycles, seasons, plant and animal interactions and other useful topics that are commonly found in standardized lessons used across Louisiana.

West Zone ELC

Our goal is for this garden to enable our students to gain firsthand knowledge about their food system and healthy eating, as well as provide lessons in science, english and math. The science of ecosystems, insect and soil science, local food systems, organic agriculture, and the math of gardening (such as planting plans, yield statistics, geometry, measuring growth) are a few of the concepts we anticipate teaching through our garden.

Rock Run Elementary

The goal of the Rock Run School Garden is to help improve community health through a collaborative educational effort surrounding the establishment of a new garden.

Objectives include:
1) Increasing access to and understanding of fresh fruits and vegetables,
2) Creating an authentic learning environment for students and teachers, and
3) Improving healthy food awareness in the community, especially among lower resourced and rural populations.

Carlos Santana Arts Academy

Nick Federoff has a long running radio show and also two television shows on weekly local Los Angels station newscasts. He is in the planning stage of the Teachable Garden Program planing to film it as a one hour television special for KLCS-TV. The curriculum will be a 16 week course for the second grade of a public elementary school utilizing sustainable water techniques and edible home gardening methods. The lessons would include topics from germination to harvest for garden plants and also lessons on composting, solar energy, water conservation and other sustainable living techniques.

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