Upper Elementary

Plum Cove Elementary

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

Olivia Park Elementary School

Our garden goal is to provide our students and families with a safe healthy and inspired learning environment. We want our students and families to be active participants in our garden and benefit by enjoying the harvest and healthy eating at a time many of our families are financially struggling. This grant will allow our garden to continue to be self sustaining. Having a shed and tools of our own will help take our garden to the next level.

Morningside Elementary School

Morningside Elementary's raised beds and a greenhouse make it possible to grow and harvest produce all year. Students usually make salads in order to sample their harvest. If we had a small mobile kitchen students could learn new and healthy ways to cook and eat (or drink) different crops. This learning tool would also give the children an opportunity for weighing measuring following multi-step instructions and working as a team while learning a lifelong skill.

Marlinton Elementary Graduating Gardens

By establishing a school garden program it will not only benefit the students but the whole community. We hope students will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of where food comes from how it's grown and a personal desire to be healthy through eating well and exercising. We hope this excitement and enthusiasm transfers to parents and together they will make positive changes by preparing meals with more wholesome ingredients cooking at home or starting a home garden.

Lt. Eleazer Davis Elementary School

To continue providing fresh food to local pantries and others in need involve more students staff and parents in the garden provide at least 1 item for the school cafeteria and grow abundant healthy and strong vegetables we will use the funds for soil amendments seedlings curriculum labor tools and materials. Access to growing and preparing vegetables brings joy and health measurable and immeasurable to all involved. We have seen this in the 3 years our garden has been growing.

Lowell Elementary School

The goal of the Lowell School garden is to provide an outdoor classroom where our students can learn a variety of topics ranging from nutrition to science, language arts to community service. Our garden provides a safe hands-on learning environment for our students who have had little opportunity to take ownership of anything. We strive to educate children on where food comes from and to give students the tools they need to grow their own garden in the future.

ESYNOLA, Langston Hughes Academy

From day one of the Dreamkeeper garden's inception, life in the garden has been fast at work – growing, sharing and spreading seeds. Langston Hughes Academy's Dreamkeeper garden is tucked away behind the school, which makes it a perfect place for plants, animals and critters to thrive. As the school community develops its expansion plan for the garden, it continues to grow and change, endearing itself to all who visit it.

ESYNOLA, John Dibert Community School

Located right off the hustle and bustle of Orleans Avenue are the gardens at John Dibert Community School. These gardens showcase the entrance of the school and serve to welcome students, parents, teachers, staff, and butterflies alike! Daily and throughout the year at these gardens, the children and adults in our school community have the opportunity to delight in the harvest and smells of fresh herbs grown outside their front door, and keenly observe lizards and a variety of local and migratory butterflies who find their homes in our large habitat garden beds.

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