Garden Classrooms

Avondale Meadows Academy

Beginning August of 2014, students at Avondale Meadows Academy took our 3-year-old school garden to the next level by creating a vegetable business called the School to Farm Initiative. From production and planting seeds to tracking sales and expenses, each class plays its part in a system which brings fresh, healthy food to the immediate community. Students gain not only agriculture experience, but also entrepreneurial and managerial experience as well.

Brooke Charter School East Boston

Our garden would be located on school grounds and be accessible to students as well as community members. We envision our garden as being a part of daily life at our school. Students would compost materials from lunch, weed the garden as a volunteer or leadership activity, visit the garden with their classmates during lessons and tend to the garden as part of an after school program. In addition to providing educational opportunities for our students we will use the garden to actively engage parents and community members in healthy living discussions.

Virginia Ave Charlotte DeHart Elem School

The receipt of a Whole Kids Garden Grant will make it possible to construct and maintain a new urban school garden in a high-poverty district, and provide the infrastructure for Shenandoah University students to partner in facilitating an after-school garden club focused on nutrition, agriculture and environmental stewardship. Children residing in this high-poverty district often have little opportunities for after-school enrichment and this garden club will add to the options available at this school.

Grandview Elementary School

Our first goal is to increase the garden's productivity. The food produced in the garden is eaten by the students, used in the cafeteria and sent home especially for our neediest students. With timely watering the garden would grow even more prolific harvests and provide more food for our children and their families, We also need replacement tools, replacements for worn out children's gloves and small garden carts so the students can move wood chips and mulch more independently.

Ocean Avenue Elementary School

Ocean Avenue Elementary School's Global Garden is used as an outdoor classroom integrated with the school's International Baccalaureate curriculum, teaching the students about stewardship of the environment, lifecycles, habitats, ecosystems, nutrition, movement of plant species around the world, and the origins of the food we eat.

KIPP DC Connect Academy

This grant will make it possible for the KIPP DC Webb Campus to build a garden that will enhance the school community by increasing fresh food engagement, education, and access. By growing healthy food, we not only will improve the eating habits of students, faculty, and community alike, but we will also utilize the garden as a critical tool for experiential learning.

Robert Semple Elementary School

A grant from Whole Kids will help build a school culture that embraces the joy of growing food on the grounds, and creates an easy way for teachers to meet Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The garden embodies CCSS requirements with meaningful real-world connections with teaching objectives in English, science, math, art, history in a living classroom environment.

Solana Vista Elementary

Our primary goal is to continue to provide a school-wide program to help students experience the full food cycle: compost to nutritious vegetables.  We share our harvest with the School Cafeteria, and students are all eager to eat what they have grown. As our garden becomes more self- sustaining (using permaculture principles) our goal is to teach more scientific principles through discovery and basic cooking.

Barbara Morgan Stem Academy

This garden will enhance our school's STEM program so that we can develop and support our children's endeavors in the area of science and curriculum integration. This is our second year as a STEM school and our community and students are very supportive about our continued growth. All year we weave in bits and pieces of life science into our curriculum. With a school garden we would have a place to grow our plants and each grade level would have an area to maintain.

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