Garden Classrooms

Cleveland Elementary

Obesity rates are currently on the rise in America, especially for African American and Latino individuals. With the demographics of our school being predominantly African American and Latino, our goal is to make a conscious effort to reduce this rate. One of the efforts is providing our students the access to a garden space that exposes and educates them about fresh healthy whole foods. Our goal is to increase participation in the garden program and connect our kids to food while simultaneously reinforcing and engaging participants in healthy living strategies.

Coyote Valley Elementary

The Coyote Valley Elementary School Garden is an outside life science learning lab where we grow organic food and promote our school's Wellness Policy. Children in our K-6 school learn about plants, soil, animals, and water conservation in a natural environment. Students learn how to plant, tend, and harvest crops and seeds. They have opportunities to eat the fruits of their garden endeavors in the school salad bar, the garden, and in their classrooms.

Baraboo High School

Many of my students don’t take the time to think about what is in the food they choose to eat or where their food comes from. As we’ve been studying the industrial and local food systems, students have been comparing processed foods to fresh ingredient recipes. A few of the “fresh” ingredients have been purchased at the farmer’s market, while most of them have been purchased at the local grocery store. It would be amazing if students could go out to the garden and pick their produce of choice for lab--to know exactly where the food came from.

Sidney Lanier High School

The Lanier Garden motto is “Putting the Culture back in Agriculture.” This is a multifaceted project that brings together a cross-section of the 65 countries represented at the school and community around the production of healthy food close to home. Participants save money and connect with neighbors. Students led the initial funding drive and garden development and continue to learn in and support the garden through their FFA classes, including welding, construction, soil studies, and vegetable growing in 5 garden plots.

Messalonskee High School

The goal of the Messalonskee High School (MHS) Garden Greenhouse Project is to provide our students with year-round access to fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs. MHS will create a multi-disciplinary agriculture learning experience for students in the garden and greenhouse which is currently under construction on campus.

Edward R. Roybal Learning Center

AAAJ-LA strongly believes that community education combined with civic engagement is the most effective way to create empowered citizens and make lasting change in communities. If we are awarded this grant we will be able to purchase additional supplies to build more boxes and hence expand our garden thus increasing student and parent involvement. Also, garden expansion will bring us closer to our goal of creating a small project selling the herbs and vegetables at a local farmers market thus providing our Special Education students with job skills and training.

Marinette Middle School

The goal of Marinette Middle School is to incorporate a raised bed vegetable garden on the property that is available to all students (grades 5-8) and staff as well as community members who would like to volunteer. The garden would be available for educational lessons and integration of multiple disciplines during the school year, formation of a gardening club, k-8 summer learning programs held at the middle school, CCS program (Comprehensive Community Services) located on site for students and families year round and a variety of extra curricular clubs.

Treadwell Middle School

Our mission at Treadwell Middle School is to teach, every day. Period. Over the past year, we have successfully forged a community alliance that has allowed us to renovate neglected outdoor areas of our campus, instilling pride in our students and neighborhood while teaching kids about horticulture, teamwork and pride in doing a job well. Receiving the Whole Kids/Food Corps grant would allow us to reach our goal of continuing our momentum, by taking the teaching and learning experience to a whole new level.

Kingston Middle School

Kingston middle school will use this grant to provide a quality learning environment for all middle school students. With this grant students will learn how to grow and maintain a garden, During the growth process students will learn how to test soil, plant seeds properly and how to maintain proper irrigation. Students will use the scientific method to determine the growth span to learn the proper planting methods of the southeast Oklahoma region where the Kingston middle school is located. Students will also learn how the plants effect our ecosystems.

Hart Middle School

The goal of this garden is simple: to provide sustenance and healthy choices for families who need options for food at no cost. Hart serves about 10% of its population free and reduced lunch. Those same families are frequently in need of assistance with groceries throughout the year. The idea was to plant a garden that was sustainable, but that would also represent out own students helping other students an dour own families helping other families at Hart.

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