Upper Elementary

Armatage Montessori School

The Armatage Garden Project has two goals. The first is to engage our special needs students in the Garden Project. Armatage is fortunate to have two CLASS classrooms for students with developmental disabilities. This grant provides CLASS students with an opportunity to raise and harvest produce right outside their classroom window. In addition, those students will have the opportunity to mentor other students in planting the orchard and raised vegetable beds.

The Orion School

Outdoor education and gardening have been essential components of our curriculum since our inception. We take our students hiking every Wednesday to instill a love of the outdoors. Our garden is a home to bats, listed as an endangered species by the IUCN and features a bird sanctuary and a chicken coop. Our Certified Wildlife Habitat includes an organic fruit and vegetable garden, chickens, a worm farm, a pollinator garden, compost tumblers and rain barrels; all of which are used to promote environmental education.

The Farm School

Our goal is to create a permaculture site and learning program at the school. Permaculture is a set of techniques and principals that design for human needs while caring for the earth. The garden is the central component. We want an outdoor, living classroom that is integrated into our curriculum in a hands on way. We want a learning environment that fosters communication, cooperation, critical thinking and decision making. We want to provide students with the resources and opportunities to follow their interests.

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Our goal with this educational garden is two fold: to inspire students through incorporating the natural world into their learning process; and to encourage young people to consider the impact that food and nutrition have on their lives and future health. In order to achieve our goals we must complete our garden construction and secure finances to support ongoing programming. This grant specifically will allow us to kickstart our spring season by purchasing seeds and potting soil, constructing an early spring cold frame, and filling our remaining 3 garden beds with topsoil.

Lapham Elementary School

Our goal is to offer outdoor experiential learning opportunities in order to encourage exercise and healthy eating; expose students to the concepts of sustainable living and conservation; connect students to the natural world to inspire appreciation and respect for nature; encourage the integration of garden activities into classroom curriculum; and build community.

Withrow Avenue Jr. Public School

Our Goals for the Spiderweb Garden are basic: to continue to offer a teaching garden, led by a Garden Educator who offers specialized knowledge of garden-based and environmental education to support teachers in creating and delivering hands-on learning opportunities linked to all subject areas in the Ontario curriculum. A grant will help us to sustain the salary of our garden educator, Elin Marley. We want to contribute to teacher Tom Mandel

Sandcreek Middle School

First and foremost is the goal to engagement of our students in the agricultural process. Our school is very involved in S.T.E.M. activities/interventions (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The projects will be looked at from both an agricultural and a scientific approach. We intend that all of our 779 students participate during our S.T.E.M. activity rotations (weekly). In addition, we have several schools that are close enough for walking field trips (three elementary schools and a high school). These other schools have a combined population of 2,600 students.

North Branch School

The North Branch School garden is a teaching tool for students. The garden incorporates math, science, environmental education, social studies, art, & physical activity into the students' school days and our goal is to deepen their understanding of & connection to the growing cycle & the community. The garden currently has three 10' x 6' beds, so that students not only learn about gardening & sample the vegetables they have grown, but donate produce, or money raised from selling produce within the school community, to our local food pantry.

Dooley Schools at St. Joseph's Villa

The Villa offers special and alternative schools for students K-12 who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder; emotional and learning disabilities; are on long-term suspension from public schools; or who need a smaller and more flexible learning environment. The large majority of these children are from low-income urban neighborhoods and have little opportunity to garden or even be outdoors in a natural setting, other than at the Villa. 

Silver Spring International Middle School

We are seeking your support to help us start a school garden program for our middle school, which serves students in grades 6-8 in a highly diverse and urban area of Montgomery County. As an authorized International Baccalaureate World School that offers the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), we are committed to providing our students with inquiry-based, real-world problem solving in an international, intercultural context.

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