Garden Classrooms

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.

Streiber Elementary

Our garden goals are to utilize the Common Core Science and Math curriculum while encouraging children to be more involved in the growing of their food. Our school has an almost 50% low-income population. Our garden will not just educate our students but provide fresh organic vegetables that they can enjoy with their families at home. Hopefully, by bringing fresh produce home it will help encourage healthy eating and relieve some of the hardships of providing food for their family.

A J Briesemeister Middle School

The program goals include:Improving overall community wellness by instilling healthy lifestyles in students, providing opportunities for physical activity and the necessary skills and resources to increase their consumption of nutritious foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. Increasing physical activity, fresh fruit and vegetable consumption, and social interaction for community members including seniors. Developing healthier eating habits for all participants by learning to create healthy snacks and meals that include harvested items from their own garden project.

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