Upper Elementary

Culverdale Elementary

OneOC is committed to engaging our youth to be our next generation of volunteers and ncorporates STEM-based service learning opportunities for K-12 students to increase student comprehension of how science impacts social challenges like hunger and nutrition.

Hightower Elementary School

This grant will engage students in realizing the various stages of food production, harvesting, preparation, and food consumption. Ideally, the goal is to utilize a hands-on approach by providing, small garden plots for each designated garden. It will promote direct ownership, by students and staff, of their plots.

Valley Forge Educational Services

Our vegetable garden goals include enabling our students with special needs to reap the benefits from a hands-on outdoor curriculum that teaches them how to connect with the outdoor environment, complete a food garden from seed to harvest, connect with the benefits of healthier lifestyle choices and participate in a positive activity that can help others. Since its installation in the spring of 2014, the garden has been woven into many academic subject areas as well as our enrichment programs.

Dolores Gonzales Elementary School

The goal of our Dolores Gonzales Elementary Jardin de la Familia (Our Family Garden) is to increase students', families, and the community's awareness and appreciation of the importance of gardening and agriculture in our New Mexican communities. We also are striving to meaningfully integrate the garden into the school curriculum by continuing weekly lessons in various K-2 grade classes. The garden has been used to integrate many subjects into the garden lessons such as math, science, health, and literacy.

Clinton School

Our garden's goal is to introduce all of our students to the experience of planting seeds, watching them grow, enjoying the harvest, and learning to love fresh food. We would use the grant to expand from serving 260 students in 13 classrooms (kindergarten through second grade) to 600 students in 26 classrooms by adding our third- through fifth-grade classes to the program. This would require us to build 12 more beds. We would also like to install a sustainable watering system, to help us grow crops year-round.

Streiber Elementary

Our garden goals are to utilize the Common Core Science and Math curriculum while encouraging children to be more involved in the growing of their food. Our school has an almost 50% low-income population. Our garden will not just educate our students but provide fresh organic vegetables that they can enjoy with their families at home. Hopefully, by bringing fresh produce home it will help encourage healthy eating and relieve some of the hardships of providing food for their family.

Most Blessed Trinity Academy

This school garden’s mission is to educate children, families and the community about healthy eating, food sourcing, community service, and the joy of growing your own food. Most Blessed Trinity Academy and Youth Conservation Corps consider it important for youth to learn about the importance of what they eat. We have found hands-on learning to be very effective, and kids living in urban areas often have few opportunities to really get their hands dirty. We want to teach them about nutrition while simultaneously showing them that they have the power to grow what they eat.

Edwin A. Alderman

Alderman Elementary is transitioning towards a Medical, Health, & Wellness focus. As part of the "wellness" component, we would like to develop and implement a school garden. This garden will help us reach several goals. Our main goal is to educate our students on healthy food choices and to instill within them and their families healthy eating habits. Research shows that children who grow their own food are more likely to eat fresh fruits and vegetables (Hermann et al., 2006). Our second goal is to promote cultivating environmental stewardship.

Burns Latino Studies Academy

Summer of Solutions Hartford is a youth leadership development and food justice program based in Frog Hollow, Hartford. We built a school garden at the Burns Latino Studies Academy, our local community school, in 2012.
Over the past three years, we have worked with teachers and students to care for the garden and harvest the produce. We worked with teachers to write activities in the garden which complemented what their students were learning in the classroom. Each year, we work with 10 classrooms for at least four sessions.

Sugarland Elementary

Sugarland's Inside Out Garden is a powerful educational and environmental tool. Through gardening, our students have an opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the natural world. It provides our impoverished students their first opportunity to dig into dirt and watch plants grow. In addition, the garden provides broader life lessons including contributing to students' knowledge of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Because Louisiana is experiencing an epidemic of child obesity and weight-related diseases, the need for prevention education is critical.

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