Upper Elementary

Coral Cove Elementary

The goal of my garden is to involve children in hands-on participation with the planting, cultivation/maintenance, harvesting, and delivery of produce to the community. Nutrition and health awareness are also important components. Organic gardening techniques including composting with produce from our school cafeteria will be used to promote environmentally responsible methods.

Brook Knoll Elementary School

The goal of the Brook Knoll Life Lab is for students to see the relationship between the lifecycle of plants, caring for the garden, harvesting vegetables and how these things affect them, their food and their health. We want them to see the great value of the Earth and what it produces in their lives. But, our efforts go beyond that and this grant would not only make this possible but would also allow us to continue to contribute to the larger community. First, we donate food for school lunches, helping the school district provide healthier food to its students.

John Muir Middle School

The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Leandro is approaching the issue of the increased obesity among children through the lens of developing healthy choices that will lead to healthy habits. Our school families often do not have time to make healthy meals or have knowledge of what constitutes a healthy meal. The BGCSL Healthy Choices Program Goal is to increase student and parent:

Robinson (jackie)

The goal of the new garden at Robinson Academy will be to provide a vehicle for addressing needs in the areas of nutrition, health and asthma prevention to the student population and local community.

The grant would make possible a wonderful collaborative project that would mutually benefit the youth, school, community and after school program. The new garden would inspire everyone to take an active role and provide ownership for the maintenance of development of the project for the future.

This program is supported by Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach.

Basalt Elementary School

Our ongoing goal is educating the students of Basalt Elementary, as well as the community, about the health benefits of fresh, local produce, as well as how to utilize this resource in the kitchen. We strive for engagement on three levels:

--In the classroom: Moving forward, we will utilize the garden by developing and using standardized monthly lessons involving gardening, nutrition, and food preparation for each grade. Ideally, we will seek to join our efforts with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, which already touches all of Basalt Elementary's students every week.

Blessed Stephen Bellesini, O.S.A. Academy

The primary goal of our school garden is to teach students how to grow fresh produce, and the importance of vegetables and fruits in a healthy diet. All sixty of our students will participate in the planning, construction, planting and maintenance of the garden. Students will learn to grow produce from seeds in the Science classroom and all students will have the opportunity to participate in the Academy's Garden Club, which will be a permanent part of Bellesini's Afterschool Enrichment Program.

Beginnings

The goals of the Beginnings

Cedar Grove Elementary School

Last year I worked with the 21st Century Afterschool Program here at my school and we started a garden. We planted tomatoes, green bell peppers, summer squash, green pole beans and sweet potatoes. The students became so excited about planning, preparing and planting the garden that I too became overjoyed as we watched and recorded the progress of the garden. This sparked excitement from students from other classes which made us want to expand the garden.

Anderson Valley Elementary School

This garden grant will make it possible for our school to expand and develop an existing area next to our current garden site. The goal of our expanded garden area is to enable the school to not only educate the kids, but for them to be instrumental in planting, producing, and harvesting enough fruits and vegetables to supply our school cafeteria on a regular basis by incorporating it into the lunch menu and for kids to have healthy snacks. Supplying our kids with healthy, organic, local produce is a high priority along with teaching them about nutrition and healthy eating habits.

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