Upper Elementary

Dana Elementary School

Our school is set in a rural North Carolina community with a significant number (80%) of students on free and reduced lunches. We built raised gardens on campus for classrooms to use for growing vegetables and flowers. The gardens were being used but not effectively. This year our School Improvement Team approved a STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) specials rotation for our Kindergarten-5th grade students. We are using our campus gardens for our students' investigations.

Hillel Day School

The garden’s goal is to teach students the importance of growing their own food and eating locally grown food for the purposes of conservation, elimination of poverty and energy efficiency. The open-source design we implement will be instructional, to share the idea that even in constrained settings, one can build a functioning four-season greenhouse and give prosperity away. Nothing matters more to a kid than food, and food is the connective tissue between our daily life and the future of innovation, such as feeding the next generation of astronauts on a space station.

Bridgestone Intermediate Center

The Western Heights Community Garden started in 2012 and has expanded to include diverse raised beds, an acre dedicated squash, corn, and melon production, and a half-acre mix fruit orchard. The goals for this program include improving school and family nutrition, increasing community connections between schools and families, and expanding student engagement through hands-on learning.

South Whidbey Elementary School

Our goal is to integrate garden-based curriculum into core curriculum standards while growing produce for school lunches. By imbedding a teaching garden into a working farm, we foster a deep understanding of connections between soil, plants, food, work, growth, the larger community, and our own health. In our first season, we delivered over 600 pounds of fresh produce to our Chartwells-managed cafeterias and are on track to have all elementary school grades participating by February 2015.

Legacy Charter School

Legacy Charter School requests a $2,000 to purchase supplies needed to build gardening beds as part of Legacy’s Learning Garden project that will be used by over 550 elementary students. Legacy Charter School provides an education with a strong focus on physical fitness and healthy lifestyle both in and out of school time. The Learning Garden will provide Legacy an avenue through which to teach core educational lessons through nature’s examples, encourage children to try healthier foods and better understand the nutritional advantage of whole foods.

Field Street School

Goals- Community involvement, Healthy lifestyles and eating habits, Get students outside, Fresh food, Education. Our garden has hosted many students over the past year. It has allowed us to broaden our education beyond the classroom walls. We have witnessed a new joy of nature, foods, and community engagement from the student body, and because of that, we plan to expand our garden area. The garden currently holds six raised beds intermixed with a variety of fruits and vegetables that have been incorporated into many lessons.

Eldorado Elementary

Our mission is to provide an authentic educational environment where students, educators, and our school community learn and immerse themselves in health, wellness, science, and sustainability.

This garden will:
make possible a food production area, a living science and health classroom,
demonstrate the natural process of growth and decomposition of plant matter,
develop in the student a sense of achievement through a child-centered approach where students take ownership of the care and production of the garden.

Mission Estancia Elementary School

Our school community's goal for the garden is to enrich students' education by:
- providing children opportunities to grow and eat fresh produce
- allowing students to participate in hands-on science and environmental lessons
- making connections to grade-level classroom curriculum
- developing a program which is lasting and sustainable

Wilshire Park Elementary School

The students at Wilshire Park Elementary School love the garden; they till soil, search for larvae, admire spiders, and plant foods such as potatoes, watermelon, and spinach. However, due to a period of trouble-shooting issues with the water supply at the school, many plants have died or are failing to mature. With the Whole Kids Foundation grant, our goal is to upgrade their garden into a healthy, flourishing environment full of abundant plant life.

St. Anne Catholic School

The Giving Field is a one acre piece of property located in Beaumont, Texas that gives all of the harvest to feed the hungry in the community. One soup kitchen in Beaumont and one soup kitchen in Port Arthur, Texas receive weekly deliveries of organically grown fresh fruits and veggies and cage free eggs. This garden was founded in October 2012 and in two short years over 13,000 pounds of organically grown fruits and veggies have been donated to the two soup kitchens.

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