Upper Elementary

James A. Foshay Learning Center

Our goals are to:.1. Educate elementary students about the importance of fruits and vegetables.2. Energize and excite them about produce.3. Introduce fresh produce into the diets of students and their families.4. Give schools access to a variety of resources and support to help achieve Goals 1-3.This grant allows us to maintain the upkeep of the gardens (youth volunteer incentives recruitment etc.) and instruct the Teaching Gardens curriculum (teacher stipends curricular costs etc.).

J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet PTO

The garden offers both students and teachers the opportunity to explore and interact with the natural environment in multiple disciplines including math social studies art and theater. Through expansion of the schoolyard vegetable beds and the addition of the potato towers more children will experience multiple lessons in the gardens (the existing six beds proved inadequate for the school community in 2011) and we will have more produce to contribute to our partnering food-shelf.

Indian Oasis Primary School

The Tohono O'odham have traditionally been dryland farmers so much of our cultural knowledge is agricultural. The school garden at the Primary School has already increased Tohono O'odham language and cultural activities including traditional foods planting songs and harvest activities. The grant will enable us to expand activities into the summer when the monsoon rains and Tohono O'odham traditions mark the traditional new year.

Hopkins Hill School

Creating raised vegetable garden beds at our school is helping us to learn about ecosystems in the real world, to learn about gardening and where produce comes from, and to have fresh produce for our lunch room. It allows us to donate to the community food bank and will help to make our school grounds greener. It will also allow for future learning about composting and water conservation. We are proud of the new garden shed and rain barrels that we added this year.

Health Wellness and Environmental Studies Magnet School

Our goal is to educate our children and parents in healthy living by providing learning opportunities in the gardens and student kitchen. Our theory is if they have ownership in the planting care giving harvesting preparing and cooking of fresh produce they will broaden their pallet for healthy foods. Because of our focus we have been able to tap into our local master gardeners hospital and university for community experts for advice and volunteers in creating our learning areas.

Haw Creek Elementary School

The Outdoor Committee and volunteers use their own tools for gardening transporting them in personal vehicles to and from school. With additional funding the school will be able to install a dedicated garden shed and purchase tools to be housed on site. This will allow teachers convenient access to required materials. Volunteers without their own tools can use the school tools to participate in workdays. Future Committee members will be able to count on having the tools and supplies they need.

Harriet Tubman School

Through the Living Laboratory program Greater Newark Conservancy has brought Newark Public School children outdoors to explore nature. This garden is becoming a diverse and vital resource for the entire school community. Children are not simply observers of nature but active stewards both benefactors and beneficiaries of the produce of the garden. Cultivating the garden gives students a direct connection to where food comes from.

Goler Community Garden at the Downtown Health Plaza

  Our garden is located at a safety net health clinic has 65,000 patient visits a year.  The clinic serves Pediatric, Ob/Gyn and Adult Medicine patients.  The garden provides fresh produce to the clinics at no charge as well as providing learning opportunities for all the neighborhood.  There are regular workdays for all volunteers with special times for instruction on gardening.  Also there are cooking classes for all ages.

Greenbrier Elementary School

Our goal is for every Charlottesville City School student to experience garden-related programming as a part of his/her core classes tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of each school. We promote nutritional awareness help to improve student health and foster appreciation for locally grown food. This grant will enable CSG to develop schoolyard gardens in three of our city's elementary schools while maintaining the pilot garden at Buford Middle School.

Greenbelt Middle School at the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom

Since the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens project sprouted in 2010, Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society (CHEARS) has established outdoor classroom gardens that are multi-generational, handicapped accessible, beautifully artistic, and are a great example showing how to grow local healthy food at home.

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