Garden Classrooms

Aquinas High School

Our teachers, students and community leaders wish to build a Learning Community Garden near Aquinas High School's main entrance. On the east side there will be fruit trees including four varieties of citrus, apple trees, peaches, apricots, nectarines and avocados. We plan to include a produce garden. We will have a tool shed, shade structures, and a solar unit for power.

Greene Intermediate Center

In 2013 Greene Intermediate Center became the only school in our district with an environmental focus. A new environmental science class was developed and we began creating a cross-curricular environmental program. Distinct environmental courses for each grade level (5th-8th) are being developed, including an entire course for agriculture and gardening. In addition to studying plants, students will plan, sow and maintain the garden. They will practice language arts and math skills by recording, observing and measuring the garden's progress.

St. George School

The goal of our garden grant to have the growth and development of our garden be a learning tool for all our students. We want St. George students to know what it means to be sustainable and healthy. Growing a garden can teach a kid (and adults) the value of nature to our world.

Dr. Lewis F. Soule School

For our student to be involved in the process of growing and sustaining garden's full cycle
teaching about healthy eating habits
importance of understanding food orgins
Donating to support community programs in need of healthy food options
Maintaining a garden from planting to harvesting

John Muir

Welcome to “The Garden of Delectable Edibles” This will be a place where children can get their hands dirty, snack on tasty plants, and learn how to grow food for themselves, for their friends, and for their families.

Our goal is to directly involve the children in the practice of growing and harvesting edible plants and to show them how fun and how easy it is to grow the food that makes us healthy, smart, and strong.

Downtown College Prep Alum Rock MS

Our goal is to create a school garden to promote healthy living and eating. School lunches are inadequate at best for giving our students daily intake of fruits and vegetables. Being in a low-income area, fresh produce are hard to come by and they are too expensive for our families to afford daily. We would be able to offset the cost through this garden.

Wilchester Elementary School

The primary goal of The Wilchester Garden is to create opportunities that foster students’ ownership of healthy choices and lifestyles. Additionally, we recognize as an extension of our classroom, the garden offers a hands-on multi-sensory tactile experience that connects to a wider range of learning styles that enhance all curriculum. Further through the garden we plan to expand the student body's understanding of farm to table and the stages of food production, environmental stewardship as well as a more in depth understanding of nutrition.

McIntosh High School

McIntosh High School is involved in several initiatives to improve student performance in math, science and language arts. McIntosh is also involved in a history project to preserve the heritage of our community through the creation of a cookbook which will include a historical account of food, cooking and recipes from McIntosh. The goal of the McIntosh High School garden program will be to combine these two initiatives and take science, math and history one step further with a garden featuring heirloom and other edible vegetables and fruits.

PS 145 West Prep 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.

Delaware Elementary

SUAC aims to build the relationship between our community and the food we eat. The DIRT (Dig In R-Twelve) gardens provide K-12 school children with educational opportunities that promote healthy lifestyles and environments through hands-on learning about production and consumption of locally grown food. The DIRT project addresses multiple needs within the community through education and outreach by creating and sustaining school-yard gardens in the R-12 district.

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