Upper Elementary

Gilchrist Elementary School

The Gilchrist Elementary School Mission Statement sums up our desire to start and maintain a community garden for our school. "The Gilchrist Family of Lifelong Learners--students, teachers, staff, parents, and community members-- is committed to an on-going planning process that will ensure a quality learning environment, state-of-the-art facility, and a curriculum that will be the foundation for this life-long learning."

Geneva Elementary School

Students will be taught various methods of growing with an emphasis on sustainability and conservation. Many dis-advantaged communities around the world can benefit from the scientific knowledge we will share with our students for years to come. Perhaps one or many of our students and community members will take what they learn here and share it with someone else...

Lake Forest Elementary School

Lake Forest Elementary School has a unique student population composed largely of English language learners (85%) and students who live at or below the poverty level (97% receive free or reduced lunch). Every day, our faculty and staff strive to meet and exceed the diverse needs and expectations of our students, their parents, and the community. We take pride in being innovative in our teaching strategies, are tireless in seeking ways to improve upon what we are doing, and are always looking for engaging, real-life ways to educate our students.

Pacific Rim Elementary School

Over the next year, we plan to renovate Pacific Rim's garden into a beautiful and productive learning environment. Our Garden Committee, made up of students, teachers and parent volunteers, envision the garden as a welcoming place for students to work and learn about gardening, as well as how food is grown. With a renovated garden space, our teachers plan to utilize the garden as a hands-on learning lab to teach science and other subjects, including social studies, math, English and health.

Abbot-Downing School

The goals of our school garden project are to use a garden to provide hands-on and innovative ways to teach some of the core curriculum .

Metzer Elementary

Recently, four raised beds were added to the garden. Now, each grade-level can have their own bed (new beds were constructed by a Girl Scout working on her Citizenship Badge). Additionally, Food|Waves (non-profit) donated soil, amendments and plants to promote organic gardening to students.. So, with eight raised beds total, we plan to use the garden in a variety of ways:

Everett A. Cummings Community School

Our garden goals are to create an accessible and interactive learning environment for all age groups at Cummings elementary. This garden will be a center for educational experience, as well as place where we will introduce and sustain a relationship between students and real, healthy food.

We hope to connect as many teachers and students as possible with the garden

Federal Hill House Association

As a community wide school we have set many goals for our garden. We hope to continue to involve as many community members, parents, teachers and students as we have had in the past to help bring our garden to life. This grant would give us the wonderful opportunity to purchase tools, materials, seeds, dirt, nets etc that will enhance the experience of not only planting and growing in our garden but also of having the children experience what it's like to hold a shovel, to hold a plant bulb and to wear garden gloves to name just a few!

Lake Anne

Installing benches, planting flowers, and addressing the grass and weeds in our school

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