Garden Classrooms

Noble Elementary

Our goal is to inspire a personal connection between students and the plants and crops that fuel their bodies, clean the air and create a healthy environment for wild animals that live in our suburban environment. Often, children do not know where the food they eat comes from. Growing fruits, vegetables, herbs, etc, allows them to experience the magic of growing crops from seed or seedling.

PS 98

The WITS Tower Garden will be the primary feature of the WITS Green for Kids program, with the goal of increasing environmental awareness and develop sustainable practices in public schools. Because the Tower Gardens are mobile, students can connect to nature anywhere in their school, year-round. The Tower Gardens will be featured in the WITS Green Labs, hands-on educational classes on sustainability topics; used to support the WITS Culinary Labs; and also made available to teachers for use in their curricula.

Elmwood Elementary School

Elmwood’s school garden will offer a dynamic setting to integrate science, math, reading, environmental studies, art, nutrition and health, while nurturing community spirit and cultural appreciation by building connections among students, teachers, families and organizations.

New Hope Elementary

Our garden helps us achieve two important goals: education and nutrition.

Beverly Farms ES

Our school is taking its initial steps in planning and designing its garden. We believe that a school garden can bring many benefits and learning opportunities to our kids and to our community.

Deerfield Park Elementary

We have had a garden for 2 years but have run out of funds. We use our garden to promote healthy eating and environmental education. We also use the garden to help students learn responsibility. The students plant, tend, water and harvest all the vegetables.
In addition we use our garden to teach life science. Classes go at scheduled times with their science journals to track progress, and learn about the process of growing plants.

Orchard Farm High School

This grant will make possible a garden that will be accessible to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, as well as the community. Our team has planned opportunities for students of all abilities to experience and participate in the garden through the district's curriculum. This is a new garden, located on our school district’s main campus which is home to an elementary, middle and high school. Its proximity to three school buildings will provide learning opportunities for all ages of students.

Gibbs High School

The goal of our garden-based classroom initiative (GBCI) is to raise horticultural awareness amongst the underrepresented student population at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida (i.e., 75% characterized as socio-economically disadvantaged). Many of them reside in impoverished areas which that lack adequate access to fresh, healthy, affordable food (e.g., food deserts). Focus participants for the GBCI will be 9th and 10th grade Earth Science and Biology students (the latter subject to a rigorous state administered end of course exam).

Brien McMahon High School

Norwalk Grows is a school garden program in Norwalk CT, installing edible gardens and providing garden education programs in Norwalk Public Schools.

Academy @ Shawnee

Our school, grades 6-12, is located in a USDA certified food desert in a blighted neighborhood. There is only one grocery store, and it's miles away from a majority of our families. Our school population is high-poverty, made up of almost 90% free and reduced lunch qualifiers. So, besides school lunches, many of our students and their families do not have the opportunity to eat much fresh food and produce, and even if they can get it from the store, it is usually more expensive than the fast food and processed food alternatives.

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