Garden Classrooms

Cony School

The Cony School garden serves as a “living laboratory” that provides healthy learning opportunities for students. Across the disciplines, the garden enables students to connect with nature, see the relevance of their education, and examine the origin of their food. Currently, the size of the garden limits the number of students that can access the gardens, both in terms of classes using the garden and produce in taste tests.

French Prairie Middle School

The garden at French Prairie Middle School is there to provide hands-on learning opportunities for elementary and middle school students. It is a place of inquiry, investigation and an opportunity for students to make the connection between the food they eat and how it is grown. The garden is also to be a place of reflection, art and writing.

Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School

Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS) is a middle school located in Brooklyn, NY dedicated to civic engagement and the interdisciplinary study of environmental sustainability. BUGS opened its doors to students in August of 2013 and will eventually serve grades 6 through 8. The school provides a rigorous and balanced curriculum in all core subjects—with a strong focus on math and science using experiential and hands on outdoor learning.

Lynn Middle School

Lynn Middle School garden goals are for students to take initiative in their garden.
1. Given the right tools, students will identify how to use the garden.
2. Secondly, using the garden students will be able to design a long term plan that is suitable for the desert environment.
3. Next, the garden will be used to introduce students to fruits, vegetables, native herbs they've never eaten or attempted to sample.
4. Then the garden will also be used as an outdoor classroom for learners to explore.

Rogers Park Middle School

Our main objective is to provide integrated experiential education in sustainable organic and native plant gardening as part of an ecological/environmental curriculum. For this goal students will: (1) design and create garden spaces and be responsible for planting, growing, and harvesting food crops, (2) design and create spaces for native plant growth and replacement of invasive species, (3) organize and lead events focused on involving school and other community members. We would like to expand the garden program to include more students from other grade levels within our middle school.

Horizon Middle School

The garden will provide students throughout the school community, including students with different abilities, access to a learning environment that is hands on and multi-sensory. It will provide an opportunity for many students to learn where food comes from and have an opportunity to be pat of the process of growing the food. Many of the students have not had prior experience with a garden or knowledge of how food is sourced and that it is possible to source food locally.

New Settlement PS 327

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.

Lincoln Elementary

The hydroponic garden would be implemented as part of project based learning plan that will begin in kindergarten and extend into the first grade year. Students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to the question: How can small things contribute to such a big world? and solving a problem: How can we grow fresh food in the winter months in North Dakota? The students would be involved in the implementation and care of the garden.

Berlin Elementary School

Our overarching goal is that all students will learn to appreciate and access the skills necessary to independently produce nutritious food for themselves and their families in the future while building understanding of where food comes from. Some of the many goals of our garden project are to provide students with hands-on experiences planting,harvesting, preparing,serving, and eating produce from our community garden.

The Pennfield School

The Pennfield school currently has eight 4' X 10' raised beds (made with cedar) that are in desperate need of replacement. We grow a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and almost everything by seed as part of our science/sustainability program. We would put this grant money to great use by replacing the existing beds, adding new soil, composted manure, and compost to the beds and if possible, a drip irrigation system. This year we experimented with straw bale gardening in three of the beds which was a terrific success. We would love to try this again.

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