Upper Elementary

Hooper Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to build a greenhouse and small garden for our students. This grant will make it possible for our students k-6th grade to EXPERIENCE science, math, health and Language arts curriculum in the greenhouse in exchange for just reading and doing small experiments in classrooms. Our classrooms for grades k-3rd grade have no windows, making it difficult to grow plants for their science curriculum. The majority of what we grow in the greenhouse will be fruits and vegetables. We plan to donate fresh fruit and vegetables to three local food banks in our community.

Hunter's Creek Elementary School

Most Americans are generations away from the family farm. As a child, I remember visiting my uncle

Ockley Green School

The Ockley Green Garden connects children with an understanding of how their food grows through hands-on learning experiences. In partnership with Growing Gardens, Ockley Green hopes to integrate the community with the garden program by establishing a robust Garden Committee, facilitating quarterly work parties, offering teacher support and curriculum connections, and conducting family outreach through Parent-Child workshops and enrollment in the Growing Gardens Home Garden Program.

Earl Boyles Elementary

The Earl Boyles School Garden enhances learning opportunities through hands-on garden based education, improving health, wellness, and the academic success of the children and their families. Supporting both adult and child education in the garden helps unite the school community. Students who participate in the Garden Clubs become involved citizens in their community, better equipped to work with others and solve problems. As a part of the existing Portland Parks and Recreation Community Gardens this garden space provides a natural gathering place for the community.

Prodigy Leadersip Academy

The five primary goals for our garden project are:

1. To teach essential life skills and support academic learning through the planning, planting, harvesting, preparation and cooking of the fruits and vegetables from our garden plot. We know that children learn more through active involvement in the learning process.

2. Create a school wide project that involves children ages kindergarten through 12th grade, teachers, parents, and community volunteers.

Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School

The goal of the garden is to increase awareness through:

Multicultural Magnet School

The goal of building this school garden is to integrate the garden as an outdoor classroom. This

Cross School

Working with the school community, GVI proposes to build a 37

Early Childhood University

The Growing Place at our school is growing healthy bodies, minds and greens through interdisciplinary classwork outdoors. This learning garden includes a stage with seating for 2-3 classes at a time, raised beds, and a Woolly Wall hanging garden next to our supply shed. Our mission is to cultivate curiosity about nature's processes while building a practical foundation for a healthy lifestyle.

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