Upper Elementary

Happy Valley Elementary

•CREATE AND SUSTAIN RICH REAL-WORLD LEARNING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, serving as an

extension of our classrooms – a place to “dig in” to math, life and earth science, language arts, history,

geography, economics, nutrition and more.

•CULTIVATE POSITIVE LIFE-LONG EATING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS, helping students fall in love with

good food, with all of their senses. The carrot that a child pulls out of the ground or the spinach that

a child plants and tends is more likely to be joyfully eaten than the spinach or carrot that a child first

Woodland Forrest Elementary

Our teaching garden provides opportunities for hands-on learning in core curriculum including science, math, reading, and writing; leadership and responsibility; entrepreneurialism; as well as instruction in food origins, production, cultivation, and preparation. This interdisciplinary approach has established a measurable increase in students’ academic performance. A University of Alabama study also found improvements in physical health (measured by body mass index), and a willingness to eat vegetables.

Open Magnet Charter

It is our goal to upgrade our existing garden space to continue to allow it to thrive. A Whole Foods grant will allow us to make necessary upgrades and improvements to our existing garden spaces. We need to re-build our raised beds and add raised beds in areas of our physical space that have been deprived recently of sunlight. Our current “main garden” was created prior to the maturation of surrounding trees for shade on our playgrounds. These perimeter school yard trees have made many of our growing spaces obsolete.

Hilton Head Preparatory School

Hilton Head Prep recently integrated HI-5-a health initiative that addresses: (1) Community Outreach, (2) Personal & Physical Development, (3) Joy & Spiritual Wellness, (4) Relationships and (5) Food & Nutrition. HI-5 is gaining great momentum with the students, parents and faculty and after polling each group, a garden project received the most excitement. This grant would enable us to integrate HI-5 into our after school program (Prep Plus), which would like to be more than homework and playground time but interactive with cooking and gardening, and into the curriculum.

Lake Mead Christian Academy

The goal of planting and maintaining an on-site garden is two-fold. The first being, the school would like to take active steps in taking better care of our students, who essentially are our future leaders. Not only would we use the produce for the school cafeteria but to also donate fresh food to local resource centers who have partnered with us.

Sabin School K-8

Sabin Edible Garden's goals are to educate and feed as many Sabin students and community members as possible with our existing growing space. In-class instruction, after-school cooking classes and a weekly community food bag program all depend on the productivity of Sabin Edible Garden. We happily serve those in need in our community, but have observed that both harvest yields and ADA accessibility can be improved.

Oaklawn

The Oaklawn Community Garden, a project of the Derby Recreation Commission, Derby Public Schools and local volunteers and businesses will allow community members and students to grow their own vegetables for use in meals they prepare, utilize the garden to teach students about where their food comes from and how food is grown and provide produce from the garden that will be donated to the community food bank to help feed those in need. If we receive this grant, we will use it to install raised beds and provide adaptive tools that to make the garden ADA Compliant.

Cleveland Elementary

How Does Your Garden Grow will allow students to learn about sprouting plants from seeds as well as the scientific concept of photosynthesis. Primary grade students will work with intermediate grade students to produce starts for outdoor garden boxes.
Students will be given a pretest to find out what students already know and what they need to learn. Teachers will teach about photosynthesis and germination. The students will begin their gardens with containers, collecting and recording data as the seeds sprout in a variety of controlled growing environments.

Doyle Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to provide our students and their families with the opportunity to enjoy watching plants grow and involve them in the process of nurturing life. It's so exciting to witness the stages of life of plants! This grant would allow us to maintain our 12-bed garden. We want to buy more soil, build another bed and buy more bark mulch to keep down the weeds. This grant will also help us expand the variety of plants to represent the many cultures at our school. We plan to incorporate plants from different countries that would grow well in our climate.

Miguelito School

The goal for the Explore Ecology School Garden at Miguelito School is to become fully self-sustained and to be able to support all the students at the school. The grant would help to build another eight planter beds. All beds need irrigation, garden hoops and bird netting, with an alternate covering for frost protection for winter. With the campus located on the edge of town and near the hills,wildlife unwelcomingly “shares" in the harvest. In addition, there is a little more frost that threatens to damage our winter crops.

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