At Arthur Ashe Charter School students eat their lunch while gazing out a picture frame of gorgeous, native and exotic shade plants, showcasing the school's kitchen herb and flower garden.
Bend a city of over 80 000 has only one school garden and a couple community gardens--currently filled to capacity--accessible to children. Our garden will help fill this gap by serving 400 students each year. Connecting kids with the food they grow and eat will improve their health and provide a practical framework for teaching and learning about sustainability. The garden will also reach adults with periodic educational programs and by increasing capacity for community garden plots.
The Alternative School in Indian Oasis Baboquivari Unified School district is where students are sent instead of expelling them so Project Oidag members TOCA and our Food Corps members weren't sure what to expect at first. It turns out that these are the sweetest students you could find and they have really responded enthusiastically to our weekly activities. So the garden is more than a garden for these kids. It's an oasis an affirmation and a place to succeed.
Bell has always wanted a vegetable garden to bring students and the community in touch with how the production of food and the environment are interconnected. The garden will provide an outdoor classroom and teaching tool to help our community: 1) understand in a tangible ways seasons affect vegetable growth; 2)learn the importance of taking care of the earth by showing how clean soil water and air help grow our food; and 3)stimulate a curiosity in different nutritious foods and healthy eating.
Our goals are to: 1. Educate elementary students of 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.)
To safeguard the environment and strengthen engagement and partnership with neighbors and our community. The combined elements of the project from green space to landscaping will have a cooling effect on the property eliminating the radiating heat that bounces off solid black-top. New trees and shrubs which are critical to cleaning the air and reducing pollution will be planted. A community garden will provide space for experiencing the miracle of the growing cycle in an urban space for all.
The Audubon goals for a Whole Foods community garden are for students to: engage in a tangible application of their hard-earned academic skills develop an understanding of the efforts and variables involved in growing and transporting the food they eat daily deepen their appreciation of nutrition and thoroughly understand their power and responsibility in promoting environmental health in the Audubon and global communities.
Students who attend public school in LA are growing up with little knowledge as to where their food comes from or how much work it takes to produce it. This lack of connection with their food source makes it very difficult for them to care about the quality of the food they eat and the impact their food choice has on our planet and their health. Our goal is to use the garden and outdoor kitchen as an outdoor classroom to re-connect students with their environment and community.
The overarching goal of all campus gardens is to increase exposure to language as it relates to nature food recycling and sustainability. Children gain vocabulary and context as they plan plant maintain harvest and est fresh produce. Specifically this grant will make possible the creation of two beds that are larger in scale than the beds currently on campus. This larger space will significantly expand planting possibilities and compost space allowing more children to work at one time.
Our garden goal is to enhance our school garden so that each child can plant and harvest a crop of vegetables prior to leaving school for the summer. We also want to increase access to nutritious sustainable and healthy foods on campus and to promote zero waste goals. Our garden will create new learning opportunities for students that will be involved in garden projects. We would like this garden to increase awareness about health and sustainability by striving to enhance IB learning.
