Upper Elementary

McKinley Elementary School

The goals of the garden consist of creating an environment where students and communities can leaned and work together. The focus of the garden will be (a) educating children of how plants grow (b) knowing the importance of growing foods and vegetables, (c) having an environment where the children can have actual hands -on experience of creating and developing a successful school garden.

This grant will allow us to purchase the materials needed to create a garden, provide an educational opportunity for children while fostering an atmosphere of positive socialization.

Mary Ford Elementary School

We know that healthy students learn better. Unfortunately, our students are missing the connection that good nutrition is essential for good health and good health is essential for performing your best. Our garden will provide a concrete way to reinforce this message with the students. We will cook with the produce we harvest. Our produce will be used in the after-school class cooking class that is sponsored by the Low-country Food Bank. We will also supplement the food that families receive from the Food Bank.

Kokhanok School

The goal of the Kokhanok school garden is to create a teaching tool that is both relevant to the kids of an isolated village and that has the power to dramatically increase the quality of life by introducing and supplying fresh vegetables to the community. Village schools struggle to keep kids engaged with a learning system that bases its portrait of society on events, places, and things that have never been experienced by the people of the community.

Litchfield Minnesota Middle School

Our first goal is to get an existing greenhouse at the school up and running. Since being built, the green house area has been too hot to successfully grow plants. Master gardeners, a local CSA farmer, and the owner of the area garden nursery have all made suggestions of ways to correct our greenhouse problems and we are confident with this grant we can purchase the equipment to correct our problems.

L'Ecole Bilingue

Our vision is that the garden be used as a platform to educate children about food literacy. Students can grow food using organic pest control methods, harvest produce, and save seeds. Composting teaches about nutrient cycles. With a cooking program, the children learn proper food prep and use all their senses to discover the goodness of whole foods.

Kahakai Elementary

The Kahakai School Garden program is looking to become an inspiration and a platform for student entrepreneurs. We have begun a program that has students leading weekly harvests that provide real foods for a weekly "Market Day." The students are responsible for growing, picking, washing and selling produce for "Market Day." All proceeds go back into the garden to pay for materials, and our hope is that one day our Garden will be completely self sustainable.

West Jasper Elementary School

The two raised bed boxes at the West Jasper Elementary School were built by several college students at the University of Alabama in hopes of one day growing into a larger garden project. As of right now, the boxes are small and not able to support a sufficient variety of vegetable growth for the number of students participating. It is our hopes, that with this grant we will be able to build larger boxes and provide more of a variety for the children to grow, taste, and learn from.

Jane Edwards Elementary

In the rural and tightly-knit community of Edisto Island, creating and maintaining a school garden is an ideal way to achieve a number of our goals: to increase community involvement; provide hands-on learning experiences; and, produce food that will be shared and enjoyed.

To increase community involvement we will use the garden for collaboration with our partners. Community members see our garden as an important part of enhancing education and can bring their skills and interests to bear on making this a successful.

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