Upper Elementary

Ponderosa High School

Ponderosa High School (PHS) has an established greenhouse, outdoor garden, and sustainability program which includes renewable energy, storm water harvesting, native and water wise landscaping, and composting. We are in process of building an additional 800 sq. ft. hoop house that will enable "three season" growing. The greenhouse serves as our classroom, water catchment and aquaculture system, place for seed starting and vermi-composting, and art room for design & planning. In the hoop house we will focus on food production.

Pathfinder K-8

Our garden exists to serve as an outdoor classroom that supports and extends curriculum in the school, builds school community, and encourages awareness around growing and eating nutritious food.

Oxford Elementary School

Roberts Farm has three major goals and community gaps which it vision addresses. These are:

Goal 1 - The major community goal for students participating in the Roberts Farm is to grow 4,000 pounds of fresh produce each calendar year to donate to

North West Junior High

1) To provide a safe, fun place for a diverse group of young people to gain cognitive and non-cognitive skills

2) To instruct students in the tending and growing of nutritious fruits and vegetables, and the care of our land.

3) To foster the mentor relationships between high-school and middle-school aged students, and middle and elementary aged students in a

Nava Elementary School

The garden at Nava Elementary School is a space for students to learn about the food system, environmental sustainability, and the life sciences. Learning in the garden scaffolds the learning that takes place in the classroom.

Our current school garden is small, and includes four raised beds with season extension capabilities and irrigation, and a straw compost. Twenty saplings were also planted by students on school grounds in the spring of 2012 as a service learning project on Earth Day.

Naramake Elementary School

The primary goal of our garden is to create an awareness for students of where their food comes from, and encourage them to eat healthy foods.

All 4th grade students have been involved in the Youth Farmers Market (YFM) program since last summer. Our 4th grade teaching staff, and Norwalk Grows, have developed a curriculum that uses a Youth Farmers Market model as a teaching tool. Students engage in curriculum based learning in science, math and literacy while working in the garden. This Fall, we had one market that was a huge success and sold out in 20 minutes!

Mountain Christian School

1. Students at Mountain Christian School will work together with the two school coordinators to develop a garden that will grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs. We will also plant fruit trees around our new school building which should be completed before Fall 2013. The students will plant the gardens and raise, harvest, and eat the crops. The two school coordinators will develop science curriculum to include nutrition, plant growth, gardening skills and local planting and harvesting seasons.

2. Additional activities we would like to include:

Mesa Preparatory Academy

The goals of the garden include helping students become aware of our natural resources and their limitations, raising awareness for health and nutrition by eating fruits and vegetables each day, raising awareness for environmental issues such as reducing fossil fuel emissions by growing food locally which decreases the need for transportation of goods across states, giving students the skills to grow plants and take care of land which will help them develop pride in themselves, developing a long-lasting bond among the students with the Earth, and finally sharing and spreading the lessons an

Mendez Middle School

Our primary goal is to educate the community on healthy food choices and how to produce healthy food as cost effectively as possible. Mendez Middle School is located in the Dove Springs Community, which has the highest obesity rate in the City of Austin. The area has no farmer's market in surrounding neighborhoods, and the area is a food desert, lacking adequate access to grocery stores for residents.

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