Upper Elementary

The Food Project

Since 1991, The Food Project has been providing the Boston area with innovative community and youth programming based upon the belief that everyone deserves healthy, delicious food. Following sustainable agricultural practices, TFP farms on over 40 acres of land in urban and suburban communities in eastern Massachusetts. The Food that TFP grows is intended to increase access to healthy food; it is sold at Farmer’s Markets that accept EBT, WIC and senior coupons, sold as CSA shares, and donated to local hunger relief organizations. TFP youth engagement is integral to all of our programs.

Yates Elementary School

The Yates Elementary Garden is used by 500 students to learn about plants, study life cycles, investigate ecosystem interactions and to grow delicious, healthy food.

Westwood Charter Elementary School

This year we are focussing our fundraising efforts on creating the infrastructure for a true and lasting outdoor classroom equipped with places to sit (We currently use hay bales!)and stations for composting seed starting and doing research. To this end we need a shade sail a white board benches food prep station a storage shed etc. This grant will help us reach our goal of creating a designated location for all sorts of outdoor learning at our school.

Westminster Avenue Elementary School

Our goal is to build a Kitchen Shed to expand our limited cooking facilities. Our mission is twofold: to instill in our students a sense of responsibility for our planet and to help students create healthy eating habits. To that end we cook in the garden weekly using produce grown by the students. We plan to install solar panels on the roof of the shed for our electrical needs and rain barrels to use for non-potable purposes. We will use the Kitchen Shed for school & community purposes.

West Parish Elementary School

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days.

Veterans' Memorial Elementary School

The grant is part of an effort to build learning gardens in five elementary schools weaving the schools into Gloucester's growing sustainable food system. The goal is to build a garden and establish it so that a district wide coordinator can maintain it and teachers and students feel comfortable interacting with it as a hands-on learning tool. Teachers and students will see the garden as a natural extension of their classroom and school environment.

Velma Linford Elementary School

The mission of Linfords Garden Club is: To provide our students with authentic learning experiences in a natural and supportive setting. Students will contribute to their community and development of self-efficacy through their participation in the Linford Garden Club. Our goal is to have the Woolly School Garden serve as our hands-on indoor classroom and to give our students the opportunity to grow food for themselves and their families regardless of our short growing season.

Real Food Rising, a program of Utahns Against Hunger

Real Food Rising (RFR) is a community farming program with a youth development core. We use sustainable agriculture to transform the lives of young people and to increase access to healthy food in Salt Lake.

Thomas J. Waters Elementary School

Waters Elementary School (a Chicago Public School) serves over 600 students from many different ethnicities, cultures and economic levels, the majority of which are from minority and low-income families.  For most schools, exposing children to ecological studies is simply not in the budget.  However, for nearly 20 years Waters has been dedicated to making environmental responsibility a priority, as we belive that learning about the environment is as necessary as reading and math.

The McGillis School

Our goal is to ensure longevity of the garden and foster integration with school curriculum. The grant would support acquisition of: 1) tools and tool storage; and 2) materials for indoor and winter growing. Currently working in the garden requires tools from elsewhere reducing the ease with which teachers and classes can engage with the garden. With our short growing season curriculum integration requires materials that integrate indoor and winter growing with the garden.

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