Upper Elementary

Center for Spectrum Services

As a school dedicated to educating and supporting children with autism, we are committed to utilizing best practice teaching methods necessary to overcome complex obstacles to help our students understand their world and how we interact with it. The primary goal of our garden is to engage students in collaborative, hands-on, sustainable activities that connect them to the importance of our collective responsibility of taking care of the earth.

League City Elementary

The League City Elementary student garden club was recently established in March 2012. This organization of students set a goal to communicate and support health and nutrition for our school. They came up with the idea of "Try it...you might like it!" to encourage students in our school to try vegetables and other produce they have never tried before. The students want to extend beyond our current garden by creating container gardens where members partner with each other to grow a vegetable.

Linton Springs Elementary School

We wish to provide a unique winter gardening experience for students to grow and harvest cool-weather vegetables during our typically-dormant winter months. They will be able to eat this produce and donate the extra food to our families-in-need and/or the local soup kitchen. We

Canyon Charter Elementary School

The goal of the Canyon Harvest Project is to add a permanent, heavy-duty shed for storing garden and education materials and a drip irrigation system to reduce water runoff and educate students on the importance of water resources and to minimize mildew on plants. Such a system would allow us to continue growing crops over the summer holiday. Summer crops include squash, pumpkin and corn that could be used in a fall harvest celebration. Additionally, we would like to purchase soil, compost and seedlings to replenish our containers throughout the school year.

Woodriver Elementary School

The goal is to maintain a food production focused school garden that serves as an educational resource during the school year and a source of food for the community during the summer. Additionally, we seek to engage the community surrounding the school by hosting a weekly farm stand, harvest celebrations and offering Student Gardener led garden tours throughout the summer.

Valley Springs Elementary

Our primary goal is to promote and support healthy and sustainable lifestyles in our community and schools by teaching students and families how to grow and prepare healthy food.

Salazar Elementary School

School gardens have always been effective tools to teach young people about agriculture, eco-systems, nutrition, and food safety. The first goal is have students work towards starting the city

Sand Hill Venable Elementary

Our hope with this garden project is to integrate garden care and use into our

everyday curriculum. Each grade, K-5, will be assigned a small garden plot. Each grade

level will be responsible for the upkeep of their garden plot and those grade level teachers

will incorporate the garden into science, literacy, math and writing lessons throughout the

school year.

The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project distributes a wonderful weekly

newsletter which includes literature, activities, recipes and journal topics to incorporate

McNicol Middle School

Students will help to plant, care, water and harvest the fruit from the trees planted in the Tropical Fruit Tree Garden. In addition, the students will participate interactively in a horticultural and nutritional orientation. There will be an opportunity for other educational / information workshops conducted by the Rare Fruit and Vegetable Council of Broward (County) and the nutritionist at the nearest Whole Foods Market will put on a session for both teachers, administration and students.

City Garden Montessori Charter School

We want the garden to double as an outdoor classroom that supports the Montessori Philosophy that our school embodies.

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