Upper Elementary

Conejo Elementary

This grant would allow us to add 4 horse trough garden beds on a concrete area on the campus. This area used to be a mini zoo and has turned into a fenced off unused area. Water is already available in the area, yet some irrigation will need to be done to connect the beds. Once these are in place, the garden will be ready to turn into a community garden. The horse trough garden beds will show families withoug land that it is still possible to grow your own food. Currently eight garden beds are maintained by students, teachers, parents, as well as community groups.

Omar D. Blair K-8

The goal of the ODB Community Garden is to educate students about various plant life cycles and to increase awareness of the benefits gained by healthy eating habits. First, it will be a positive, continual binding force for our community. We have many celebrations that occur throughout the year that relate to academics, but very few opportunities for parents, staff members, community members and students to interact together and/or learn as a community. Secondly, our garden will help students learn about what it takes to grow food.

Speedway Avenue

The gardening goal is to maintain the indoor and outdoor gardens while getting the students to "go green". We would like to educate the students on proper nutrition, pollution awareness and gardening through hands on experience. Participants will gain knowledge in reading, math and science through research, investigation, observation, and comparative quantitative analysis of cities verses suburban communities.

Fort Bragg High School

Noyo Food Forest (NFF) is a grassroots organization founded in the fall of 2005 to create lasting, positive change on our rural Northern California coast by developing and maintaining school and community gardens. Our flagship Learning Garden, located at the Fort Bragg High School, is a unique on-site Farm to School program and center for education in organic, community-based agriculture. NFF not only cultivates fresh food, we cultivate healthy minds and habits.

North Florida School of Special Education

The goal of the Garden Project, Ready, Set, Grow! is to provide a hands-on learning opportunity for our students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, ranging from 6 to 13 years of age. The children will be involved in all aspects of the garden from soil preparation, planting of seeds and veggie starts, watering and the ongoing care as the plants mature.

Winter Park Elementary School

Our garden was started in 2009 with a $3,500 grant. The initial goal was to just establish a garden. Now, our garden has grown in size and the goals have changed:

1) The third grade science curriculum focuses on plants. The students are taking a major role in planning what crops are best for our area, learning the importance of fertile soil and how to care for crops from seedlings to produce. The third graders then teach the younger grades what they have learned through their research. They also model appropriate gardening techniques as they work with the younger students.

Bennetto Elementary School

Grub Club is for children aged 6-14 who attend Bennetto school and/or live in the North end of Hamilton. It is a safe place where kids can meet each week and discover how to grow their own organic vegetables in the garden, learn how to cook healthy meals and take part in a vareity of physical activity programs (which they would often otherwise be unable to afford). This dynamic program sees that needs are met in the areas of food security, recreation and social inclusion and gives children and their families, skills needed to help build a healthy life. The children

Tinc Road School

Our primary goals are to provide students with the hands-on learning experience of growing vegetables, reinforce/apply concepts learned in class and increase their daily vegetable intake. By stressing this, these healthier food choices will lower BMI, which for our 1st graders starts at 4% and climbs steadily to 15% of 5th graders being overweight. Children who grow and harvest their own food are more likely to try it and make healthier choices. The students will also learn about organic and sustainable farming and how to protect these resources.

Montessori School of Louisville

Montessori School of Louisville is planning a garden based upon the Edible Classroom Project. The garden will be developed in a green space behind the school which contains a few much-loved raised vegetable beds. Because of the success and interest in these vegetable beds, we want to expand our garden into a complete outdoor classroom. This outdoor classroom will be an extension of our indoor learning in every major subject area. Additionally, it will provide a means for engagement with the local community, by extending the use of the gardens to nearby neighborhoods.

Mountain Road School

The goal of our garden is to immerse our students in the natural process of growing food and working in partnership with the earth in a balanced and nurturing way. Mountain Road School has recently renovated an historic home which has presented us with opportunities and challenges. The opportunity before us is the creation of garden space- designed by teachers, parents and students in collaboration. The challenge comes from years of corn crops grown in the soil.

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