Garden Classrooms

College Hill Elementary School

The College Hill Community Garden currently has four raised beds. All of the food cultivated from the garden is given to students in need at College Hill and the Kansas Food Bank. This garden provides all students an opportunity to learn about cultivating produce and gives opportunities for teachers to present lessons to their students about healthy eating.

Paularino Elementary

We have developed and sustained a delightful and thriving little school farm for the past 8 years. Currently, we care for 10 healthy fruit trees, 8 raised beds, and 3 tubs of berries. Students maintain the garden by digging, preparing the soil, planting, and harvesting. Science and nutrition lessons, aligned to our science standards and health and wellness curricula, are conducted in the garden with K-6 grade students at least 3 times a month.

Academic Leadership Community

With the Whole Kids Foundation Grant we will be able to provide the Academic Leadership Community with our Garden Ranger Program in which students will take a step out of their classrooms and learn about the scientific, nutritional, and environmental impact of gardening in their own garden we help them build. We will also be able to assist them in yielding more glorious harvests for students to incorporate into their daily meals. The Academic Leadership Community emphasizes leadership, community, and intellectual curiosity among its students.

Wakanda Elementary

We have just started a school garden at Wakanda and our pleased to already have excellent buy-in from our principal, groundskeeper, teachers, and PTO. At this point, we have built and filled raised beds, but have several outstanding needs: repair of an existing greenhouse, construction of a deer fence, pavement of the area around a wheelchair-accessible bed, and purchase of garden tools and grow lights.

Gault Street Elementary School

This grant will provide the opportunity for children to build healthy eating habits by connecting in meaningful ways with their food. Many of the children that will be involved are low-income and lack experience gardening or growing food, and have limited access to high quality produce. With an edible garden, our school will be able to create an environment that promotes well-being and provides nutrition education through hands-on learning. Students will learn how to grow their own food, as well as the environmental and economic benefits of sustainable community agriculture.

Bronx Design and Construction Academy

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.

Great River School

We currently have a garden that we want to expand to include more fruit and vegetables. We want to add a natural berry "fence" to give protection from the street. This would include blueberries and raspberries. We would also add raised garden beds for a strawberry patch. We would plan three columnar apple trees along the east side of the garden as a cover from the back/walking path. We plan to add several more raised garden beds that would house lettuce, spinach and kale. There would also be a root vegetable area with beets, carrots, potatoes and turnips.

Laytonsville Elementary School

Our garden's goal is to grow salad mix, fresh herbs, and spring and fall veggies on an annual basis. We hope to provide every classroom with a salad party over the spring and fall growing seasons. We are excited to include all grades in our project, including our School Community Based Classrooms: School Community-based Program (SCB) services are designed for students with severe or profound intellectual disabilities and/or multiple disabilities.

John A. Bishop PTO

The goal of the Bishop School Garden project is to create an outdoor garden for student learning that will enhance the curriculum and strengthen the school community's capacity to connect to the natural world. We look to create opportunities for the children to discover fresh food and make healthier food choices, while offering a dynamic environment for students to engage with subject matters such as earth science, garden math, reading, nutrition and health, local and colonial history, social studies, and outdoor art.

Monroe School

We have a beautiful and well used vegetable garden at the school.

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