Upper Elementary

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.

Washington Elementary School

Our gardens goal is to raise edible vegetables and herbs. In the process we are educating our students on the process of how food begins as a seed, grows, and ends up in the grocery store. We want our students to know that food can be grown locally and not just boxed or canned and in the grocery store. We are teaching them about the work that goes into raising a garden such as weeding, planting, watering. We want to teach them healthy habits such as eating fresh organic vegetables and herbs.

Gledhill Junior Public School

The Gledhill school vegetable garden is maintained by parents and school staff. Last year the garden, located in the common area at the rear of the school, was used by about forty students in two classrooms. Gledhill staff, with support from the Gledhill School Council, are looking to grow student involvement annually.

Guardian Angels School

The goal of our school garden is to teach our children, from an early age, what foods will help them grow and maintain a healthy body.
We will achieve this by:
1. Stressing the more plant-based foods they eat the stronger and healthier they will be.
2. With a strong and healthy body their minds will be able to learn and comprehend more.
3. Teaching the children where the plants they eat come from, how they start from seeds and when cared for in a natural and responsible way, grow to be harvested and eaten to nourish their bodies.
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HATCH Family School

The school garden at Cooper B. Hatch Family School will be a learning landscape for teachers and students. As a brand new project, our goal is for the students to have a budding and healthy relationship with food and the environment. We believe that the school garden will provide just that.

The Calhoun School

Last year we purchased a Tower Garden for use indoors. This year we purchased two more. The vertical tower allows for 28 plants to be grown aeroponically in a 2.5 square foot space. Our goal is to purchase two more towers with this grant. One for us and one for our partner school in the Bronx, The Family Life Academy Charter School. We plan to place the towers in classrooms so that the process of growing plants is part of the life of the school day rather than an added program.

Bhaktivedanta Academy of North America

Our school has had small square foot gardens for the past 2 years. With new classroom buildings now in place, we are planning to expand the garden area, incorporating permaculture systems, fruit trees and other perrennial plants, in addition to constructing new, more permanent square foot gardens for vegetables. This grant would allow us to set up the proper foundation for the area, purchase trees and plants, and purchase necessary materials for constructing the square foot beds and soil mixture.

Jewish School of the Arts

The goal of our garden would be three fold.
1. Research has shown that children who experience hands on learning, learn better than children who are taught to memorize or hear about facts. This garden will give the children a hands on experience where they can actually see how plants grow.
2.Our garden will excite the children to try new fruits and vegetables. After plowing, planting and watching their little seeds grow, we have no doubt the children will be thrilled to try their creation.

Carolina Voyager Charter School

Here at Carolina Voyager Charter School we focus on preparing young explorers for their 21st century journey-and what better place to explore than a school garden! Our goal for this exploration garden is to stimulate curiosity and inquiry based thinking on the part of our students through their physical interaction with all parts of the natural life cycle of plants. This goal will be achieved through student, faculty, and community participation year-round in creating a sustainable garden, which will produce foods that can be utilized across all courses, and in our school’s cafeteria.

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