Academic Classrooms

Rock View Elementary School

Our goal is to transform the school courtyard into a space for playing, learning, gardening, and teaching environmental education and nutrition. The redesigned courtyard will include a pre-kindergarten play space, an outdoor classroom with seating, a shallow pond as well as various habitat gardens to attract butterflies and birds, and raised garden beds for growing vegetables and herbs. Compost bins and rain barrels make the design environmentally sustainable. The raised planting beds can be used by the different grades to fulfill curriculum requirements, such as math

Perryville High School

In this small, rural community, nutritious fruits and vegetables are not included in the diets of many children and families due to the excessive poverty in this area along with the lack of education about healthy lifestyles.

Washington Elementary

School gardens are a wonderful way to use gardening time as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agricultural concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects such as math, science, art, health and physical education while encouraging an understanding of personal and social responsibility. This project will promote healthy lifestyle skills while relating educational goals to the common core and relevant elementary school curriculum.

Forestville Union School District

Our goal is to provide a garden experience that encourages and allows students and the school community to work together to create an outdoor learning adventure that grows good scholars, leaders, friends, and stewards of the earth! Children who use organizational and math skills to plan what to plant, and how to do it, become better scholars. Children who take on leadership responsibilities, such as teaching a group of younger students what a Three-Sisters garden is and how to plant one, practice leadership skills.

John P. Parker School

John P. Parker is an urban school located on 13 acres in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Madisonville.  The Madisonville community is identified as an urban food desert with no walkable access to fresh produce. John P. Parker students eat the majority of their meals at school. All 358 students receive free breakfast and lunch through the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program.  Dinner is provided to all students enrolled in the afterschool program and students who are food insecure over weekends are given a bag of food, “Power Packs” every Friday.

Canyon Park Junior High

We used our grant to buy 24 yards of topsoil and garden tools for our school garden! We had 150 students shoveling and pushing wheelbarrows full of topsoil with the help of parents and master gardeners.  Every group of four 7th grade students shares a garden plot in which they design, plant and care for vegetables and flowers. We have a team of 8-10 Master Gardeners who come in to share their expertise as well as work alongside the students in the garden.

White's Junior/ Senior High School

Our goal is to involve our "at-risk" youth in the establishment, maintenance, and harvest of a series of gardens. Through this, they will enjoy fresh air and sunshine while learning how to garden. It will provide emotional healing and self-esteem as they watch their garden grow. It will give them opportunity to work with teachers and staff, providing opportunities to talk while working in this informal setting. They will learn about plants and how they grow in relation to achieving healthy, sustainable gardens.

Southside Family Charter School

Southside Family Charter School's goal is to maintain and expand our strong garden program!  For three years we have been fortunate to have a thriving school garden, thanks to teachers, administrative, parent, volunteer and community support. The garden is an integral tool for our students and we use it to enhance reading, social studies, science, and the food program.

Pioneer Charter School Kinder Garden

Our overarching goal is to grow healthy food for our students and the community. We want the garden to be a center of learning about nutrition, gardening, cooking, and other essential skills for building a healthy community. We want the children to have a hands-on experience planting, growing, and harvesting their own food. By doing so, students will experience the joys of gardening, be more likely to try new foods, and be of positive service to their community. We want to improve the beauty of our community and show others that beautiful gardens can be grown in the middle of the city.

Montessori School of Louisville

Montessori School of Louisville is planning a garden based upon the Edible Classroom Project. The garden will be developed in a green space behind the school which contains a few much-loved raised vegetable beds. Because of the success and interest in these vegetable beds, we want to expand our garden into a complete outdoor classroom. This outdoor classroom will be an extension of our indoor learning in every major subject area. Additionally, it will provide a means for engagement with the local community, by extending the use of the gardens to nearby neighborhoods.

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