Garden Classrooms

A.D. Rundle

A.D. Rundle's garden will grow healthy vegetables, community, curriculum, outdoor experiences, working together, social skills, non-verbal communication, education around nature, and experiences in play not isolated to metal, rubber, and plastic structures. Children have little time for free play anymore, and when children do have free time, it's often spent inside in front of television or computers. School facility playgrounds are often the only outdoor activities that many young children experience, and we hope to improve that by adding more natural space to our school.

Canon Exploratory

Our garden will serve as both a community garden for a nearby low income housing unit, a residential home for adults with special needs and an outdoor classroom for our K-7th grade students. Our students will learn through real world application as they design, plan, cultivate, plant, and tend the garden. We plan to build raised beds that will be filled with vegetables, fruits and edible flowers. Although, the garden will serve as an outdoor learning space for the entire school, the installation of the garden will be a 7th grade project.

Holly Lane Elementary

The goal of our garden at Holly Lane is to facilitate community relationships, student learning of nature, food, and nutrition.
The Holly Lane Garden started when a staff member applied for a grant from Annie’s Homegrown Food Company in May of 2013 to start our garden. We were awarded the grant in the amount of $500. That money was used to buy lumber in order to build raised garden beds, fencing materials various seeds and seedlings to plant in our garden.

Carl Cozier Elementary

We anticipate that our garden will •CREATE AND SUSTAIN RICH REAL-WORLD LEARNING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, serving as an extension of our classrooms – a place to “dig in” to math, life and earth science, language arts, history, geography, economics, nutrition and more. •CULTIVATE POSITIVE LIFE-LONG EATING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS, helping students fall in love with good food, with all of their senses. The carrot that a child pulls out of the ground or the spinach that a child plants and tends is more likely to be joyfully eaten than the spinach or carrot that a child first meets on a plate.

Culverdale Elementary

OneOC is committed to engaging our youth to be our next generation of volunteers and ncorporates STEM-based service learning opportunities for K-12 students to increase student comprehension of how science impacts social challenges like hunger and nutrition.

Rosemead High School

The goal of the “The Best of Thymes” garden is to create smarter, healthier, more inspired students.

Hightower Elementary School

This grant will engage students in realizing the various stages of food production, harvesting, preparation, and food consumption. Ideally, the goal is to utilize a hands-on approach by providing, small garden plots for each designated garden. It will promote direct ownership, by students and staff, of their plots.

Valley Forge Educational Services

Our vegetable garden goals include enabling our students with special needs to reap the benefits from a hands-on outdoor curriculum that teaches them how to connect with the outdoor environment, complete a food garden from seed to harvest, connect with the benefits of healthier lifestyle choices and participate in a positive activity that can help others. Since its installation in the spring of 2014, the garden has been woven into many academic subject areas as well as our enrichment programs.

Dolores Gonzales Elementary School

The goal of our Dolores Gonzales Elementary Jardin de la Familia (Our Family Garden) is to increase students', families, and the community's awareness and appreciation of the importance of gardening and agriculture in our New Mexican communities. We also are striving to meaningfully integrate the garden into the school curriculum by continuing weekly lessons in various K-2 grade classes. The garden has been used to integrate many subjects into the garden lessons such as math, science, health, and literacy.

Clinton School

Our garden's goal is to introduce all of our students to the experience of planting seeds, watching them grow, enjoying the harvest, and learning to love fresh food. We would use the grant to expand from serving 260 students in 13 classrooms (kindergarten through second grade) to 600 students in 26 classrooms by adding our third- through fifth-grade classes to the program. This would require us to build 12 more beds. We would also like to install a sustainable watering system, to help us grow crops year-round.

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