Upper Elementary

Yonkers Public School 29

My goal as parent is to give our children the experience to grow a garden as a group. It will enable our students to grow as individuals and establish better eating habits. Overweight and bad eating habits is an epidemic, children do not realize where healthy food comes from.

Xavier Elementary

Our garden goal is to educate students about healthy lifestyle choices and encourage them to make healthier choices in their everyday lives. Various garden produce gives students an opportunity to taste a wider variety of fruits and vegetables. The garden will also enable us to teach environmental awareness and sustainability practices through hands-on activities. This grant will help us maintain the garden by funding the creation of an efficient watering system.

Woodland Elementary School

The goal of the Woodland Garden Club is to give the students first-hand practical experience about the joys of maintaining a garden. This grant will give us the needed financial support to be

able to continue the garden and hopefully implement new ideas that the club has for the future. Having the opportunity at school to learn about gardening will provide many children vital life-long skills about planting, harvesting, and even preparing foods that they may not otherwise receive at home.

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Winchester School

Our goal is to utilize our existing garden plot and greenfouse to grow more food. We would do this by utilizing grant funds to better cultivate our garden space; do secondary plantings once an initial planting has been harvested; manage our school compost area to provide compost for the garden and for the community; and use our greenhouse fall, winter and spring. Producing more food would mean that more students could sample items grown here by themselves or their schoolmates.

Washington Elementary School

The Washington Elementary School Edible Courtyard will be primarily an educational garden - inviting kids to learn about fresh fruits and vegetables, planting and gardening, and nutrition and health during their school day and after classes. 95% of students receive Free or Reduced lunches, and this garden will be a way to increase access to fresh produce through the cafeteria and for clubs' snacks. Our garden will also encourage students to feel safe in their community, and to become familiar with environmental and food issues in their community.

von Humboldt Elementary School

Humboldt Park has a strong history of organization around urban agriculture. The Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness along with CLOCC have improved access to healthy foods. Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School runs an innovative urban agriculture program. The Monarch Community Garden provides a place for local community members to grow fresh vegetables. However, Humboldt Park has no school gardens. School gardens are outdoor classrooms that provide

Vista Square Elementary School

We are pursuing grant funds to turn the garden into an outdoor classroom with garden-based educational materials. We have attended garden workshops on garden enhanced nutrition education and planting a native garden to learn how to incorporate the garden into core curriculum requirements. I have gained the support from several teachers to use the garden to enhance their science, math and English curriculum. Students will help maintain the compost pile and worm bin.

Versailles Montessori School

Our goal for this grant is to expand our current garden's raised beds, purchase more rain barrels to water the garden and also purchase a small rototiller. We incorporate all our students from 18 months through 6th grade with the garden. The younger students help pull small weeds, water and harvest. The older students build the beds, fill with dirt, work the three bin compost, harvest the crops, prepare snacks and meals for their class and the school and go to the local food bank to donate some of the produce which plants the seeds of future philanthropy... pun intended.

Vernonia Schools

This garden will be a teaching tool for our students and the community. Food security is a hot topic in our region, and this garden will be the focal point for education on food production. 2013 will be our second year in production, and we will continue providing excess food to the local food bank. Our school is developing a stronger natural resources program, and many teachers have asked for a practical "lab" with which they can demonstrate many key concepts of the sciences.

Truscott Elementary School

The overarching goal of our garden project is to create a beautiful and productive space which will serve as an extension of our school and an intersection point with our community. We plan to accomplish this, with the support of this grant, by continuing and expanding upon our existing vegetable garden with additional horticulture and habitat projects. Through these projects we will grow our garden into a large, vibrant, attractive neighborhood center which provides healthy food and learning opportunities year round.

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