Upper Elementary

Baldwin School

The goals of The Baldwin School Garden Project are to create, support, and sustain our school garden so that students can connect with nature in engaging, nurturing and inspirational ways and to make plant based learning and whole food a part of the education of all our students. As well as to foster cooperative spirit among schools, families and the surrounding community through involvement with the school garden. And finally, to create a vibrant, sharing network of educators and partners committed to putting the school gardens at the heart of our shared community.

Atlanta Preparatory Academy

The APA Edible Schoolyard Committee strives is to promote better eating and "horticultural literacy" for students, staff and faculty of the school. More specifically our objectives are to:

- Educate students about nutrition through the context of food,

- Reinforce school learning objectives & curriculum goals

- Develop a successful, sustainable whole foods nutrition and gardening education programming for APA cafeteria students, parents, and neighbors,

Animas Valley Elementary

The Animas Valley "Learning Garden" is an interdisciplinary, cross-curricular, educational enrichment project. Each year, we spend a great deal of time and effort securing funds to continue this amazing project which teaches our community about sustainable food practices and healthy eating. This grant would provide a lump sum of money, so we can focus our energy on the actual quality and expansion of the garden project which now includes a year-round greenhouse.

ACE Charter School

ACE Charter School believes that learning should take place wherever you are, and that being conscious of the world around you is vital to education. Our Garden Program has successfully given our students an opportunity to understand their relationship to food: where it comes from and how it benefits us. Now, we'd like to take this to the next level and bring our harvest from our established garden to the table. We would like the children to know the joy of growing, preparing, cooking and eating their own food.

PS 84, The Lillian Weber School for the Arts

Our Garden, Urban Roots was born in 2010, when we started a pilot program for 3-5th graders to plant vegetables on an unused rooftop courtyard space. Last year, Urban Roots expanded to the full 5 grades, and a basic curriculum was written to incorporate Science Core Curriculum for each grade. Our next goal, The Vertical Garden, will expand our existing 132 sq ft by adding 144 sq ft of vertical growing space, ideal for city agriculture.

Zamora Elementary

Our goal is to re-establish an abandoned garden at Zamora - a garden that connects students with classroom learning, healthy food, and an understanding of how good food is produced. We have a promising beginning with 20 existing raised beds, water access, and students who want to join the

Hartman Public School

What is unique about our initiative is that includes the creation of two gardens on two different school properties. Our main goals are to build positive connections with both community members and our environment. Our schools are situated in a fast growing suburban area and it is very multicultural. This year, our new community has also been separated by school boundaries. These gardens will be a vehicle to establish positive community ties. Our second goal stems from the fact that our neighborhood has farmer

Ridge Hill School

The Goal for the Discovery Garden at Ridge Hill School is to provide a learning environment where students, families, teachers and community members can learn about gardening concepts, nutrition and health, learn about healthy lifestyles and eat nutritious food right from the Discovery Garden. We envision all students from K-6 participating in the Discovery Garden. We also have set as a goal 40% family participation in this project for 2012-2013. A School can not do this project alone and we need the support in the community to make the Discovery Garden a sustainable reality.

Woolman School

Our garden feeds and educates the students and staff of the Woolman Semester School and promotes our core values of peace, justice, and sustainability via interactions with the wider community. Most of the garden's 7,000 annual pounds of produce are used in our school kitchen; with it, interns, students and staff members cook three meals a day for between twenty and forty people at a time. Administrative staff, teachers, interns, students, and volunteers all help in the garden, learning as they do so how to grow food while caring for the land.

William E. Russell

The Russell School students will advance their understanding of science, technology, mathematics and healthy choices through the creation and maintenance of a school vegetable garden. We believe that our students will have a better understanding of complex topics and how these topics relate to them directly through this project based learning opportunity. Students will be challenged to research, design and implement a school vegetable garden in an low income urban setting. Students will then use the produce to create healthy snacks and meals.

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