Upper Elementary

St. Matthews Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to integrate school-grown vegetables into school lunch service by supplementing the district's _Farm to School

Shepardson Elementary School STEMs of Learning

Students gain knowledge about vegetables and fruits which may improve attitudes toward these foods and lead to healthier choices and a greater appreciation for how their food is grown. The garden creates an appreciation for teamwork,  patience and responsibility. Students are empowered by engaging in hands on learning and practicing scientific method.

Kalispell Public Schools, District No. 5 Flathead County

Kalispell Public Schools and FoodCorps Montana have partnered since 2011 in an effort to connect the approximately 6,000 students in District 5 with real food so they can grow up healthy. We work to achieve this goal through classroom nutrition lessons, garden-based education, and by building a Food Service Program centered on local procurement and healthy, from-scratch cooking.

District 5 currently hosts seven edible gardens and an orchard. Over the next few growing seasons, as the gardens expand, we hope to incorporate more of the harvest into the breakfast and lunch menu. 

Sand Point Elementary School

Creating a community where children empower themselves with healthy lifestyle choices rooted in sustainable agricultural practices. The garden program will instruct on best practices in urban agriculture and foster thinking on cultural and socio-economic issues of global and local food cultivation. We hope that by enabling them to share the bounty of their harvest with the community a lifelong commitment to sustainable food growing and healthful eating will hold.

ESYNOLA, Samuel J. Green Charter School

As the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans' founding garden, the growing spaces at Samuel J. Green Charter School wrap around the school, encircling its students with reminders that the natural world inspires curiosity, and that beauty is the language of caring. Whether it's finding a quiet space in the butterfly garden to reflect, keeping an eye on the fruit ripening each day in the side yard orchard, or getting hands in the dirt in the main garden beds, Green's gardens inspire exploration and the sense that something truly wonderful might be just around the corner, or under the next leaf.

Saint Helens Elementary

Construction began on the 6 000 sq ft garden in June 2011. It is now fenced and has raised beds water supply and a garden shed with tools. Our goal for this year is to plant dwarf fruit trees berries grapes and kiwis and to construct cinderblock compost bins & install 2 rain barrels to collect water from shed roof. These improvements will make ours fully functioning and many times more productive. More produce means more kids get to cook and eat more fresh foods.

Red Lodge Public Schools

The goal of the garden is to provide youth in the Red Lodge area with an opportunity to learn about where their food comes from. As more local food moves into the schools the connection will be further strengthened when students are able to contribute and participate in the full growing cycle. Students will participate through classroom lessons in the garden after school programs and summer activities. The project will also support the community through connections with the local food bank.

PS11 The William T. Harris School

Our garden's main goal is to connect our urban students to the natural world and to introduce gardening with edible plants. Outside of school the PS11 elementary students have very little access to interact with nature and few have participated in growing food. The school garden successfully provides tastings and provides a small amount of vegetables and herbs to the school kitchen. We grow inside in the classrooms, on the 2nd floor roof space and around the play area downstairs. We have a well established compost and rainwater catchment.

Prairie Crossing Charter School

Prairie Crossing Charter School has over 40 raised beds on our campus.  Each classroom has access to several raised beds, where they grow crops chosen by the teachers and students.  

The school hosts a monthly Farm to Table lunch.  At this event, crops harvested from our campus gardens are incorporated into a healthy menu.  Students present to the community about how they grew the featured crops, and are able to taste the fruits of their labor.

Polaris at Ebert

Our goal is to further integrate the garden into the cirriculum and the community and to extend our growing season. We plan to implement DUG's Connecting Generations Program which matches older adult mentors and our students in the garden environment. These mentors will support the staff and parent volunteers in teaching various subjects in the garden. To extend our growing season we require additional grow labs to start from seed and hoop houses to get plants into the garden sooner.

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