Upper Elementary

Bayview Elementary School

The goal of the Bayview Community Garden is to first and foremost, to enhance student learning through a hands-on experience. The garden provides the opportunity to move the focus from simply consuming produce, to planning, creating and cultivating it in a collaborative method. It allows students to interact fully in and with their physical environment outside the classroom integrating curriculum. Students will be able to explore and incorporated more vegetables in their diet through tasting and trying.

Mexico Middle School

Our main goal is to provide fresh vegetables for our school, both to supplement our lunch program as well as classroom tastings. The second goal is to provide education about healthy eating, sustainable farming, and the value of home-grown food. A third goal is that students will benefit in personal/social ways: to reap the rewards of seeing a product from their own work, to learn to work together, and to give back to the community. Since we have not had a garden before now, we are in need of tools and materials to start our program from scratch.

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.

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