Upper Elementary

Southside Family Charter School

Southside Family Charter School's goal is to maintain and expand our strong garden program!  For three years we have been fortunate to have a thriving school garden, thanks to teachers, administrative, parent, volunteer and community support. The garden is an integral tool for our students and we use it to enhance reading, social studies, science, and the food program.

Southold Elementary School

The Southold Garden Project supports the cultivation of a school garden for the betterment of our school, our community, and most importantly, our children. Creating and maintaining a school garden improves both health and education. The garden helps teach kids to make better choices about food and enables the school to provide better food options in the cafeteria. The garden creates an outside space for hands-on, practical study of science, math, literature, business, industrial technology, home economics, art and design.

Soquel Elementary School

Soquel Elementary School has an on-going garden that we would like to supply with vegetable and fruit seedlings and seeds, year round, to allow this area of our school to flourish. We would like to continue to educate our students on the life cycle of plants, sustainable living, composting and learning to eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. Currently our garden is in need of replacing gopher wire under our garden plots, fixing our watering system so that each box is equally watered, and fortifying each plot with fresh, amended soil to allow our little garden to flourish.

George Washington Carver Elementary School

Our goal is to teach our students about healthier foods, and how to make better choices. By having the students participate, we hope they become excited about what they are growing. Our school is the largest

Washington Elementary

In its first year, the Washington Elementary garden produced 80 pounds of food. Now an established garden with 2,000 square feet of productive space and a small greenhouse, our goal is to bring its productivity up to the level of some of our other gardens that produce 300-800 pounds of fresh food. In the process of tending and harvesting this garden, our students will learn self-sufficient and sustainable food production, eat a variety of new and different vegetables, and receive lessons in meal planning, nutrition, and food preservation.

Parrish Middle School

This year, our new Parrish Middle School Courtyard Garden and Edible Landscape produced 100 pounds of fresh food. Our Parrish Greenhouse Garden produced 225 pounds of food. Support from Whole Kids will provide the supplies and materials to expand this young garden that already make a significant impact on the students and their community. The garden has created a colorful, cheerful gathering space where students learn to make healthy food choices, appreciate nature, and practice sustainable and self-sufficient food production.

Cesar Chavez Elementary School

Our goal is to establish a vibrant, productive garden on the grounds of the brand-new Chavez Elementary School. The garden will produce fresh, healthy food for our students and their families while allowing us to deliver our comprehensive Learning Gardens curriculum during our afterschool program called Enrichment Academy.

Kate Mitchell Elementary School

Our garden aims to increase healthy food knowledge, provide a hands-on laboratory to achieve grade level expectations, and establish school gardens as a volunteer-driven asset. In a landscape dominated by industrial agriculture, we are engaging the community in building a sustainable food system that supports local producers. Our garden is entering its third growing season and is becoming integrated into the Kate Mitchell Elementary community. We want the teachers and students to feel full ownership of the space, but many of them do not have gardening backgrounds.

Kaler Elementary School

The goal of the Kaler School Community Garden is to provide fresh produce, create a connection to the environment, instill a sense of ownership and pride in students and a create a sense of community that extends well beyond the school

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