Upper Elementary

W. D. Williams Elementary

The YMCA of Western North Carolina’s gardening goal is to increase self-efficacy, entrepreneurship skills, and nutrition knowledge in youth at WD Williams Elementary School, as well as impact the community through produce donation to the YMCA of Western North Carolina’s Healthy Living Pantry. The youth-led gardening program will incorporate numerous hands-on activities, such as cooking demonstrations, taste tests, nutrition education, and community service to ensure a fun, interactive learning environment.

Cookson Hills Christian School

Each year, our garden gives 14 to 24 at-risk secondary students a chance to develop, grow, and market organic crops. It also lets them experience what it is like to raise a garden for home produce.

Our goals are to maintain these opportunities and expand the program to serve our elementary students, as well. Ideally, we could make the program available to 50 students. In addition, we would like to teach sustainability and environmental consciousness through composting.

Fonda-Fultonville Central school

The goal of our school garden club is to create a sustainable vegetable and herb garden. We are going to increase the size of our current very small garden. A grant to provide a greenhouse would enable us to start our own seeds and allow us to produce extra plants which we could plant and also sell as a fundraiser to help maintain the costs to sustain our garden.The food produced in the garden will be used by the cafeteria staff for the school lunch program. We would like to provide fresh salad vegetables 3 times weekly on a monthly basis throughout the growing season.

REACH school

• This grant will make it possible for all 50 students enrolled at REACH school, many of which have some form of developmental delay (i.e. autism, downs syndrome, fragile X, etc.), to build an awareness of where their food comes from. Many of our students consider the grocery store to be the main source for food and produce, and as educators we find this very problematic. The edible garden grant would enable us to provide hands on opportunity for our students to learn about the cycles of food production, and they would participate in every step along the way, from seed to soil.

Anderson Academy of Mathematics and Scien

The primary goal of the AAMS school garden is to allow the students an opportunity to study and grow plants.
Students will learn where food comes from and how to care for living organisms in their community. All subject areas will be addressed in this program.

Taos Waldorf School

TWS seeks funding to transform our education through the ongoing development of our 11 beautiful acres of agricultural land at the foot of Taos Mountain. This involves the expansion of our edible garden, the refinement of a curriculum weaving the garden into our student's daily education, and the promotion of healthy dietary choices. Young children may sing songs about the garden, or plant seeds, while from the same garden the upper grades learn botany, biology, commerce, and so on.

Richard Green Central Park School

Our school is a pre-K to 8th grade public school with a many bilingual students and a high poverty rate. We are located in the heart of Minneapolis, with a wonderful lawn and park space surrounding us. We would love to put this space to use for our students! The goal for our school garden would be to help educate our students (through science, social studies, and other content areas) as well as introduce our students to nutritious, fresh food.

Imperial Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to offer our special education students the opportunity to experience the gardening process from beginning (soil preparation, fertilization, seed starting) to end (plant recycling, composting, consumption). The garden will also allow for extension of other curricular focuses, such as selling garden produce to learn about commerce/ money management for Math, etc. This grant will make it possible for us to continue to build our existing garden into a functioning and sustainable food source.

Benjamin Harrison Elementary

Our garden will increase students’ knowledge about food and nutrition and provide leadership opportunities as they plan, plant, and care for the garden. This grant will allow us to build on the success of the previous year’s garden by expanding our garden space to provide more gardening opportunities to a larger number of students. Our current garden has two raised beds where three families planted and maintained summer vegetable and herb gardens. Rearranging the space and adding 10 additional beds will provide more gardening space.

Hilliard Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to provide the opportunity for our students and staff to celebrate learn how nature works and the countless ways our systems interact with each other through the structures and practices of food, health and community. Our goal is to plant and cultivate healthy foods that would supplement our school cafeteria as well as our community food kitchen. Our students will learn better ways to eat "real" and choose a healthier, safer diet.

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