Garden Classrooms

Ridgewood Elementary School

Our goal at Ridgewood Elementary School is to establish a sense of community in our students. In our inaugural garden year, we planted vegetables and flower seedlings that our third and fourth grade teachers had started in the windowsills of their classrooms. We had an outpouring of parental and volunteer support to water, weed, and harvest our gardens this summer. We were thrilled to fulfill our primary goal of connecting to the community by donating over 6 loads of produce to our local SON ministries and Hilliard Free Summer Lunch Program for students in need.

York Community High School

The goal of our garden is to improve the visual appeal of the school’s courtyard and promote student interest in growing and consuming fresh, school-grown, organic foods. A school garden introduces students to vegetables that they normally would not consume. Food harvested from our garden will be given to the school’s food service for incorporating into the menu at the student cafeteria. Summer foods harvested will be donated to the food pantry of York Presbyterian Church in Elmhurst.

Brady High School

Our program is called “From Tower to Tray” or more commonly known as Seed to Feed. We started a school garden last year in an abandoned greenhouse located at our High School. With a little TLC and the awesome support of our AG students and our maintenance crew the greenhouse was made useable to us for our Tower Gardens. I decided to use the Aeroponic vertical gardening system because it allowed our garden to be mobile to display in cafeterias, take to classrooms or at family event nights.

Hollenbeck Middle School

The garden we have provided for Hollenbeck Middle School is truly beautiful: there are various raised beds full of basil, corn, carrots, bok choy, swiss chard, kale, brussel sprouts, and beets. Fruit trees line the periphery of the garden, and there is even an arroyo with a bridge crossing. With the Whole Kids Foundation Grant, our goal is to not only continue to maintain and utilize the thriving plants to its full potential, but to spread the impact of the garden’s success.

Eagles Landing Middle School

. Our garden has been a growing and expanding central focal point of our school for the last three years. What we are doing this year is expanding into a productive and producing garden that not only is aesthetically pleasing, but also producing a useable resource in a healthy manner. We have proposed to have a hydroponic vegetation garden within our outdoor classroom. We would like to purchase 5 EZGro garden sets to allow for a compliment and learning center to our now being built raised bed gardens. We started our gardens for vegetation with a ground based raised bed garden set up.

Independence Middle School

My main objective is to create a sustainable vegetable garden that can be used by the entire school as engaging place to learn, read, experiment, etc. For example, I envision the garden to be a place where classes can come observe, experiment, measure, calculate, and inspire. We have several obstacles to making this goal possible, 1) stable & environmentally sound watering technique, 2) expense of garden basics (dirt needed to expand the raised garden beds, plants, and organic pest/fertilizer options), 3) seating to allow for an outdoor classroom environment and reading oasis.

Highland Oaks Middle School

The 'Acorn to Oak' gardening project is designed to introduce students to the concepts of sustainable gardening. We anticipate the project to yield increased student achievement, foster collaborative partnerships between community leaders and partners and Highland Oaks Middle School and create a transitional pathway for students interested in agricultural and ecological resource management to our partner high school.

Kyrene Aprende Middle School

The goal of our on-campus garden is to create a creative, interactive, and unique learning opportunity for our students. The garden is maintained by our after-school club, Aprende Grows. With this grant, our club members will be able to further explore and research agriculture. Furthermore, the members will be able to plant and harvest more varieties of fruits and vegetables; many of which they had never before tasted or experienced.

Coulson Tough K - 6 School

We have a 3-year-plan to reach our goal of creating a garden area that will enhance and extend the learning in our classrooms providing a variety of opportunities to apply knowledge in a hands-on, real-world setting. Objectives in math were taken into consideration during the design process so that our students who are learning about area and perimeter will have a place on campus to practice those skills. Composting and vermiculture in will bring to life the science objective of how soil is made through decomposition.

American International School of Utah

American International School of Utah is a new Public Charter School. I would love to help the students start a garden and to learn how to care for the garden. I would also like them to learn how to use the items they prepare and learn the science of plants. Our school is a K-12 school. Its doors opened today 9/2/2014 for the first time. We are located in the old 49th street Galleria Building in the heart of the Salt Lake Valley. We are a technology based school. I want students to also have a love of the earth and gardening.

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