Upper Elementary

Colonial Acres Elementary School

The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Leandro (BGCSL) is approaching the issue of increased obesity among San Leandro and San Lorenzo children through the lens of developing healthy choices that will lead to healthy habits. Our school families often do not have time to make healthy meals or know what constitutes a healthy meal. The Healthy Choices Program Goal is to increase student and parent awareness of and experience with healthy eating, nutrition, gardening and cooking and understanding the role of food in fighting obesity.

Friends Meeting School

The Great Garden Heroes (GGH) is a student driven group in charge of Friends Meeting School edible gardens. Made up of 1st through 4th graders it created a mission statement that states “to use our school garden to promote community by working together…..

Country Side

The main goal of the garden project is to raise student awareness of the benefits of growing healthy, organic food. We also introduce students to basic gardening skills and provide them an opportunity to sample a wide array of vegetables that they may have never tried before.

Cameron Public School

If Cameron Public School were to receive this grant, administrators, teaching staff and support staff will be able to provide students multiple, meaningful learning opportunities. From planning to harvesting, students will be engaged and involved in the entire process. Our goal is to create a natural learning environment for our youngest learners in our school. We want to foster healthy eating habits as early as possible so that children that come through our school will leave with a strong belief that healthy eating isn't a choice but a necessary lifestyle required to be successful.

Daniel Jenkins Creative Learning Center

We have been building up our garden for the past 3 years. We have a green house and an out door classroom. We have also received tools, 3 additional raised beds and seeds by taking a school gardening class over the summer. One problem, but goal, we have is irrigation. We had hoses that were lined up across the driveway and through a field to get to the 7 raised beds we have. We even have a timer to water the plants, but the lawn services company rides over our hoses and cuts them. This makes irrigation very difficult. Another goal is to become GAP certified.

Word & Praise Christian Learning Center

Our ultimate goal for our future school garden is to afford our students with an experience that they otherwise would never have had. We want our students to learn the science of gardening, we want them to experience the empowerment that comes along with growing and eating their own food, and we want them to expand their ideas of what “good tasting” food can be. We would like to provide access to different vegetables that many of our students have never tasted or seen due to the limited food access in our community.

Bridport Central School

Our goal is to use the Whole Kids Grant to expand our current garden from 5 small raised beds (3x6 ft each) to an area equivalent of 150x150 feet or, just less than one-half acre and to create a three-bin composting to begin preparing Bridport Central School for Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law, Act 148, which will ban all organic materials from landfills by 2020. Next spring, the Garden Team plans to install a 3-bin compost system and small, secure outdoor tool shed.

Bailey Gatzert Elementary

The Danny Woo Children's Garden Program, run by InterIm CDA, provides Bailey Gatzert Elementary School students classes both at the school and field trips to our unique garden, the Danny Woo Community Garden. The Danny Woo Community Garden is a place where low-income gardeners raise vegetables that reflect their cultural foods of choice, and children come to learn about these cultural and environmental connections. Our curriculum follows a seed- to- plate model; where youth and young children learn how to grow, prepare, cook, and eat healthy foods.

Monarch Learning Academy

An edible garden grant will allow our students to access nutritious produce during snack time, investigate where their food comes from, taste nutritious recipes, and pay it forward to two "adopted" low income families and our local food bank. The school garden will serve as an outdoor classroom where teachers apply lessons alongside the planning, planting, cultivation, and harvesting processes. We plan to use our edible garden to teach others how they too can grow their own vegetables and herbs through a blog.

Charlotte Avenue Elementary

We hope to create an inclusive community of involved gardeners including students, teachers, parents, and neighbors that will support and sustain a garden in years to come at the Charlotte Ave School. It would be the first garden in the Nashua school system. We envision a raised bed garden filled with herbs, vegetables, and edible flowers that will replace the monoculture lawn. Children will be able to smell mint and cilantro, watch the tomatoes bud, flowers grow, and pull fresh carrots right out of the ground.

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