Upper Elementary

Coyote Valley Elementary

The Coyote Valley Elementary School Garden is an outside life science learning lab where we grow organic food and promote our school's Wellness Policy. Children in our K-6 school learn about plants, soil, animals, and water conservation in a natural environment. Students learn how to plant, tend, and harvest crops and seeds. They have opportunities to eat the fruits of their garden endeavors in the school salad bar, the garden, and in their classrooms.

Henry W. Good Elementary

Eager students, serene nature, edible home-grown plants, beautiful flowers, and a gorgeous setting – the perfect elements of a learning garden! Our school’s current learning garden allows students to enjoy nature and provides real-world experiences. Students see how plants develop and get to see, touch, smell, and taste the results! Students help plant seeds, pull weeds, pick crops, and taste the harvest! Picnic tables provide seating so classrooms can enjoy the garden surroundings for academic activities in all curriculum areas.

San Andreas Elementary School

The primary goal of our garden is to promote and support healthy and sustainable lifestyles in our community and school by teaching students and families how to grow and prepare healthy food. More specifically, our goals for the next two years are that: 1. Every student has regular access to the garden 2. Students get to EAT the produce! 3. The garden program is set up to be successful and sustainable.

Coyle School System

Coyle schools fundraised for years to purchase a greenhouse. Our dream is becoming a reality
in December 2014. Our goal is to provide hands-on learning experience for not only the 50
students in our Agricultural Education Courses (AECs) and Future Farmers of America Chapter,
but begin a culture of garden involvement throughout our school of 297 children, many of which are
low-income.
These funds would help to:
● Expand the reach of our garden to students outside of AECs

Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School (YRCS) gardens currently serve 30 third graders (3 hrs/week, plus 2 hrs cooking/week) and 60 kindergartners (daily gardening/cooking). The school plans to expand edible programs to serve at least 3 more grades (90 students by Fall '15) as they work with Sierra Harvest to design fully integrated K-8 edible programing for all classes (by Fall '16). Free and reduced lunch rates at YRCS are on the rise--from 31% to 55% since 2010. The challenge to fully integrated edible garden programing at this school is scheduling.

Alta Sierra Elementary School

Our goal this year is to install an on-site garden and orchard. An area that Alta Sierra Elementary lacks is hands-on educational opportunities. By planting a garden, our students will be directly involved in a curriculum that encompasses science, nutrition, and community. Lessons and activities will be customized for each grade level, and include the care and cultivation of the garden, as well as the nutritional and environmental benefits of growing food. The idea and initial planning and work thus far, has created an excitement and camaraderie among our students, parents, and staff.

Slackwood Elementary School

We believe planting a new school garden at Slackwood Elementary School is a wonderful way to use our playground as a classroom, connect students with the outside world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, including math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as teach them about personal and social responsibility. Specifically, our goals are to:

Arthur D. Healey School

Our goal is to expand opportunities for more students to do real hands-on work in the school garden. Using tools, understanding how to plant, care for and harvest produce, and preparing, tasting and sharing their produce can promote independent thinking and problem-solving, shared responsibility for their school, team work, and instill a lifelong interest in learning about and caring for living things and their environment.

Barrie School

We need gardening! It has no class, age, race, or physical boundaries. We wish to empower all children to think of gardening as a skill they can do and share.
Our goals are to educate our students and our families about:
• where our food comes from and different growing methods – organic, traditional, modern;
• developing lifelong eating habits that are both healthy and tasty;
• environmental stewardship;
• interconnections with math, science, art and language ;

Canon Exploratory

Our garden will serve as both a community garden for a nearby low income housing unit, a residential home for adults with special needs and an outdoor classroom for our K-7th grade students. Our students will learn through real world application as they design, plan, cultivate, plant, and tend the garden. We plan to build raised beds that will be filled with vegetables, fruits and edible flowers. Although, the garden will serve as an outdoor learning space for the entire school, the installation of the garden will be a 7th grade project.

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