Upper Elementary

Glasgow Middle School

The goal of the gardening club is to promote health and nutrition education by integrating existing and planned gardens into the overall 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curricula starting with science, consumer science, and after school clubs then expanding to health classes. Students will grow their own produce, take an active role in food preparation, and engage the Glasgow community in learning about food production, distribution, and preparation. We hope to instill in them healthy eating habits and cooking styles that will carry over into adulthood.

Florida Autism Charter School of Excellence

The FACE's community garden allows students with autism to take responsibility for caring for a garden every day. We envision an outdoor classroom where academic skills such as math, science, nutrition, language arts and social studies concepts are taught. Additionally, the hands on sensory impact of working in the garden is very therapeutic to many children with autism. Others benefit from improved social skills due to the partnership with students at Tampa's Learning Gate Community School, whose students work inclusively along side our students with autism.

Excel Academy Public Charter School

The garden is first and foremost a great teaching tool. Our teachers use the garden regularly for both small group and individual instruction.

Enemy Swim Day School

School gardening at Enemy Swim Day School ( ESDS) is a popular choice of school day classrooms and after school activity clubs! Past successes include 5th grade salsa garden, 4th grade corn crop, preschool pumpkin patch, Big Tomato Contest and Community Soup Night.

Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School

The garden at Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School will provide students with an alternative, hands-on approach to science, health and nutrition education. While the initial building of the garden will take place in late 2012, the funds from your grant will allow the garden to continue to grow for the 2013-2014 school year. The garden will be used by three primary groups. The first group is classroom teachers, including those working with the large population of developmentally handicapped students that attend Eisenhower Elementary School.

College View School

Our goal for this garden project is to create a fully functioning produce garden that all students, staff, and community members can be a part of. We want this garden to be used as a living laboratory to support teaching and learning. Students will have the opportunity to gain real-life knowledge of the necessary steps in food cultivation. While already active in numerous healthy living programs, this garden would allow College View students and community members to participate in the farm-to-table concept.

Trafalgar Elementary

Our garden's goal is to provide an engaging, inclusive outdoor classroom space where children, teachers, and parents can learn the skills to nourish themselves. We have partnered with a small organization called EarthBites, and together we work to provide integrated gardening and nutrition programming for all the students at Trafalgar. We started with 11 planter boxes 2 years ago, and last year expanded it to include an outdoor seating area and orchard with fruit trees and berries.

Daniel Webster Elementary School

Daniel Webster Elementary School (DW) has two garden programs - an in school program, the Garden and Environmental Education Program, is taught by a paid, professional Garden Coordinator and provides students, grades K through 5 with instruction in gardening, composting, nutrition, and environmental stewardship.

Detroit Waldorf School

Detroit Waldorf School's Wellness at Waldorf program was developed with the primary mission to strengthen and build our community around the conversation of food. 

We have a wonderfully diverse population, both within our student body but also our facility and we created this program to share stories and education around food, nutrition, nature and wellness. As Detroiters, we address food equality issues, as well as nutritional education in a mindful manner that is approachable and accessible to all.

Detroit Edison Public School Academy

Our school has two small gardens with several raised beds. Young students learn about gardening both in the classroom and by becoming a member of our school's Ecology Club. As we all know, a healthier child learns better.

Our students plant a salsa garden as well as a Michigan Native Plant garden. In the fall we harvest the salsa ingredients. Ecology Club students participate in a compare/contrast taste test (utilizing traditional store bought salsa in a jar as contrast). The results are broadcast on our daily morning announcements.

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