Upper Elementary

Morrill Elementary

The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses. The goal for our garden is to truly make a safe, enjoyable and healthy place for the community to grow food, learn about new foods, share in the stewardship of a garden. With this grant we will make it our mission to promote healthy eating throughout the school community.

Thomas Edison Elementary School

The garden will provide a space for reading, discussions, and science-related study. In particular, it will help promote and instill healthier lifestyles in students given the rise of childhood obesity/diabetes. The planting and care of edible plants will provide the classes the opportunity to learn life-long healthy eating habits. One of the most important discoveries students make during their journey through elementary school is the discovery of the joy of learning.

Kilauea Elementary School

Our goal is to promote gardening activities as an integral part of our STEM curriculum. Cultures represented in our school have strong oral traditions expressed in music, dance, song and art. Science, math, social studies, language and cultural history teachable moments are abundant in this program. This program includes parent and community volunteers as well as aspects of healthy and nutritious food growing, gathering and consumption.

Cradleboard Elementary School

Our STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, & Math) Garden has a goal to introduce students to healthy eating choices. Students work closely with the Food Corps Teacher to select seeds to plant, start them indoors, & transplant them in Spring. Students built the garden last year as part of an engineering project. Since then, students have continued to maintain the garden and track growth in Math classes. Students sit on benches in the garden and write about their observations in their Science journals.

Franklin D. Roosevelt K-8 School

We are a full inclusion school where typical students and students with disabilities learn side by side . This project is needed because the primary focus of curriculum in the past has been literacy and math. This project would provide children with real-life applications of science and nature. With many of our students having special needs, the real world application is critical to their understanding. Our long term goal is for students to progress through the grades with a solid foundation of scientific inquiry and processes.

Kanu o ka Aina

Our garden program is called: “Huli ka Lima i Lalo” which in Hawaiian, means: “to turn the hands downward and be productive.” Our garden program is currently run and supervised completely by parent volunteers and is funded by donations for tools, materials, plants and equipment. If awarded this grant, these funds would help to sustain our garden by allowing us to purchase much needed equipment such as: new tires for wheel-barrows, hand tools, water hoses, watering cans, and mulch.

Eagle Valley Elementary

The school ecological garden is a 6 raised bed edible garden located on the school property. There is a fence around the garden and the outside garden will have a butterfly garden, sculpture garden, pumpkin patch and walking pathway. We have a master gardener/horticulture specialists at the school one day per week and on the weekends that cares for the garden and teaches horticulture, botany and nutrition to over 125 students on a weekly basis. We have a classroom garden along with our outdoor garden.

Keith Bovenschen School

My school is a center program for students ages 3-26 with moderate to severe disabilities. Three years ago we started the Bovenshen Community Garden. Our students benefit from learning about proper nutrition through real life experience and gain great work skills learning about a career in which they can possibly pursue in the future.

Redeemer Lutheran School

The 20 ft by 60 ft orchard will be placed on the lower elementary playground where 140 children play daily, school year through summer-long. Adjacent to the children's 240 sf vegetable garden and 1200 gallon rainwater collection tank, the orchard will be tended by students during weekly Science Enrichment classes, 2 weekly Garden Clubs, and by students of the middle school EcoHero class - winners of the Green Ribbon Schools award for the last 4 years. Eagle Scout candidates from Troop 413 will assist in installation of the 20 grape vines, 3 peach and 1 fig tree.

East Cooper Montessori Charter School

East Cooper Montessori Carter School is preparing for some big changes in the coming year. We are in the process of relocating to a bigger building, and with the new space comes the opportunity for a bigger garden and more extensive garden curriculum. Our goal for the coming year is to get the new garden established - building out the infrastructure (raised beds, drip irrigation, and support structures) and then beginning to implement the garden curriculum that has been developed by our lead garden teacher Karen Latsbaugh.

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