Upper Elementary

Paxson Elementary

The goal of the Paxson Outdoor Learning Center is to set public school curriculum in a beautiful, natural space where children can associate learning with real life outcomes.

This grant will make possible the expansion of key pieces of our education component, by providing needed funding for equipment to model plant growth and outfit our existing shed for vermiculture (worm composting).

Mother Caroline Academy

We will use our school garden as a classroom tool which will not only enrich our curriculum, but extend the borders of our lessons and advance our school mission and commitment to lifelong learning. This grant would expand our garden's reach to begin and implement a garden-to-table curriculum and program where we can plant, harvest and prepare vegetables from our own backyard in our school cafeteria.

Middlesboro Middle School

After participating in the care and maintenance of this garden students will demonstrate basic vegetable growing techniques, summarize the things plants need to grow and stay productive, and describe the benefits of eating a healthy and varied diet that includes adequate fruit and vegetable intake. Receiving the Whole Kids/FoodCorps grant would allow Middlesboro Middle School to purchase the tools, equipment and other materials needed to start food production in the spring of 2013.

John Marshall Metro High School

John Marshall Urban Farm is less than 2 years old, part of the new John Marshall Campus Park dedicated in 2011. With vision, planning, design, coordination and hard work it is a school wide service- learning project. During spring break ,after school, during classes and summers the farm was restored and features added. The goal and look of the garden is sustainability.

Live Oak School

Our garden's goal is to highlight the connections between food, health and community and deepen the relationships between each. One, through hands-on garden activities, we provide education on how to grow seasonal vegetables, herbs and fruit. Two, by showcasing innovative ways to reinvigorate the land and our valuable topsoil, using composting methods. Three, with local ingredients and a community of local youth and their families to help, we will harvest our produce and empower community members by sharing methods to prepare our seasonal bounty simply and deliciously.

Point Road School

Students, teachers, staff, PTO families, and community volunteers will transform the barren and unused areas of our school courtyard into a thriving garden with raised beds containing a rainbow of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and even berries.

PreK-4 students will plant and care for the garden; sample delicious, nutritious food; share fresh fare with family members (who'll be encouraged to plant seedlings at home); and donate some of our produce to an area food bank.

Linkhorn Park Elementary

Our garden will be at the certain of a diverse program including studies in sustainability, caring for the environment, health and nutrition. Students will learn problem solving skills, communication, creativity, critical thinking, social responsibility, global awareness and much more.

Lincoln Public Schools

Our Garden Project mission statement:

To create an outdoor classroom space in the form of a garden that will foster student connections to and appreciation of the natural world through hands on exploration.

To enrich and support existing K-8 curriculum across all disciplines and provide inspiration for new areas of learning.

Lawrence Family Development Charter School

The goal of the garden is primarily to support the Science curriculum for 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders during the Academic year, to provide Science Enrichment for students in the 6 week Summer School program and to give volunteer parents a space to grow produce.

The grant will enable LFDCS to expand the Raised Bed program, so that each grade has its own dedicated Raised Bed. The school currently has a single raised bed of 225 square feet. The Raised bed Gardens will be located at LFDCS

Leetonia High School

Our gardening project is part of a total school program for expanding dietary preferences and work skills among students with multiple disabilities and their peers. It also will help us teach sustainable methods of gardening within the science curriculum. The original gardens consist of three raised beds built by the students. The gardens produced tomatoes used by the school cafeteria, and hot peppers that were canned as jelly for a fundraiser.

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