Upper Elementary

Saint Augustine Academy

Our garden goals are:
* To teach our students to love and enjoy good food.
* To teach our students the skills to feed themselves and others.
* To awaken our students' love of being outside with nature as they experience the thrill of watching their plants grow into food.
* To teach our students how to successfully and responsibly maintain a sustainable garden.

Alternative Family Education

We have five raised beds that students currently use to grow vegetables and edible herbs. We want to expand our garden teaching to include more urban agricultural techniques by building vertical gardens, using low-cost, easily-accessible materials. We also want to incorporate a rainwater harvesting system to irrigate both the existing raised beds as well as the proposed vertical gardens. Irrigation with the rainwater would be powered by two treadle pumps, which would be built by students and their families as a science project.

Thornwell School for the Arts

The Hartsville Community Garden is located in downtown Hartsville and is free and open to the community. It is completely staffed by volunteers. Last year, garden volunteers identified a need for food/nutrition education for students. Volunteers led a program at the Community Garden for a Boy Scout troop and realized how little students knew about where food comes from. Volunteers are starting an outreach program to work one-on-one with students in an after-school program to create an on-site school garden at Thornwell

Pembroke Pines Elementary

The goal for our garden is to educate our children how to grow healthy foods and maintain a garden while enjoying the process. This hands-on experience will help them to develop patience and responsibility. Our current gardening club, The Plantiers, has 20 students from 1st to 5th grade. The students are excited to restart the garden this year. The grant will help us to expand our garden

Nightingale Montessori

Nightingale Montessori has an established cooking program with student participation that is part of our National Lunch and Breakfast Program. We have found that when children participate in the preparation of healthy food, they eat healthy food. We would like to expand this experience and include vegetables from a school garden into the cooking program. We have initiated plans to grow food to be utilized in this cooking program. We plan to expand to grow tomatoes and green beans with students.

Galatas Elementary

A Whole Foods Garden Grant will afford our students, faculty and community an opportunity to build a raised garden bed and to purchase garden supplies. The garden will be maintained by our students through a garden club. The club will be comprised of 25 third and fourth grade students that have an interest in learning about and caring for a sustainable garden. The vegetables and herbs that are grown in the garden will be used in our classrooms for science, math and writing lessons that support the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

St. Joseph Catholic School

Last year, the 6th grade class began a garden project in response to a unit on Environmental Science. This year, with help of the school and private donations, our (now 7th grade) class has a dedicated garden spot and a compost machine. The 7th grade students went to all of the other grades (pre-k to 8th) and presented information on what could and could not be composted and set up buckets around the lunch ramadas to be collected everyday and added to our compost machine. We have gone out and tilled the area and have some donated seeds. The students want to donate the food to the St.

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Autism is not a disability, it is a different ability.The ability to teach our students about healthy eating, and teaching them to maintain a better environment for them to live in. If our students were to be granted the opportunity to become gardeners their confidence levels, social skills and environmental awareness would grow tremendously. Additionally, being able to embrace a higher level of responsibility and for the students to build a stronger self esteem which in turn coincides with better relaxation techniques and important sensory skills.

Santiam Christian Schools

Santiam Christian's school garden is housed inside a large greenhouse and consists of eight four foot by eight foot raised garden beds. The garden's goal is to provide the JH/HS cafeteria and the elementary cafeteria with locally grown vegetables for the salad bar including lettuce, kale, carrots, peas and cucumbers. This will provide the school with a high quality product as well as provide education for the horticulture class in the raising and processing of food products.

Amelia Earnhart Elementary - Middle Scho

Amelia Earhart school believes in providing a wealth of activities that can reinforce and bring to life the concepts learned in the classroom. What better way to engage students in meaningful, relevant lessons, while still integrating manipulative, cooperative learning, and exploration and discovery, than a garden. The goals of the school garden are 3-fold. First, to teach the children concepts in science, and math while strengthening their character through teamwork, and helping shape their future through nutrition and health eating habits.

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