Garden Classrooms

John F. Kennedy Elementary School

The John F Kennedy School garden is an outdoor garden classroom. The goal of the garden is to provide a hands-on learning space for children in grades K-8. Teachers can use the space for any and all subject matter from science to English and mathematics to social studies. This garden is a part of our larger Farm to School Project. Through this project, we work to Empower Mindful Eaters through a variety of programming including the school gardens.

St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Our hope is to implement a new, sustainable garden at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, as well as revitalize pre-existing garden areas. These gardens will serve as outdoor gardening classrooms and safe, green spaces for the children to spend time outdoors at school. The garden program seeks to enhance the nutrition and sustainability education components at St. Andrew's. CNGF trained college interns will teach the FOSS method using hands on science techniques and garden props.

Henry Perrine Baldwin High School

Students in the Work Force Readiness Program (WFRP) plant, tend, manage and harvest from the garden on a daily basis and harvest available produce to include in teacher lunches prepared by students on Thursdays in the WFRP commercial kitchen, which is located directly next to the garden. In addition, WFRP students prepare added value items for sale, including jellies and salsas, pot pies, banana breads various pickled produce items, teas and dried herbs.

Miami Jackson Senior High School

The goal of our garden is to show students that gardens don't necessarily have to be on land to be viable and produce food. Vacant lots, concrete and asphalt can be turned into productive gardens that help to feed families and communities. Food security and healthy alternatives to the foods that most of our students eat is a great reason to have such a garden.

Creative City Public Charter School

Creative City Public Charter School is a new, progressive, parent-founded elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland. Creative City opened in 2013, and uses Baltimore City’s natural and built environments and communities as a foundation for learning. Our school builds on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based, arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed critical thinkers. An Outdoor Classroom has been an important part of our school’s vision since before we opened. The Outdoor Classroom serves as our school and community garden as well as a natural play space.

Short Elementary School

The goal of the Short School Garden project is to create a unifying center for our school community that brings together families and creates an outdoor classroom where teachers can incorporate hands-on learning. Our garden will transform an existing school parking area into a vegetable garden that produces food for our needy families and opportunities for parent involvement.

Waukon High School

The goal for the garden is to use it as a year-round educational space to introduce students to alternative forms of agriculture as part of a larger study of the food system. Students design and care for the space as part of 7th grade life science and high school horticulture classes. Student-harvested produce is used in a variety of means to promote local food in the district. Students deliver produce to food service staff, where it is advertised and incorporated into school meals. Some is given to students and their families, and the rest featured in after school cooking classes.

KIPP Academy Middle School

The garden at KIPP Academy Middle School has grown organically over the past 4 years based on the needs of the school. The ultimate goal of the garden is to be sustainable over the long-term. This grant will provide seed money for our 3-year plan. This plan addresses the 3 pillars of sustainability (see below) to ensure that the garden continues to thrive at this school.

Rumney Memorial School

Our vision is to create a vibrant, accessible outdoor classroom that: provides opportunities for hands-on and experiential learning across curriculum; promotes good nutrition by providing students with a variety of fresh, healthy food; and serves as a living laboratory to study food systems/food security in our community.

Nathan B. Young Elementary

We have garden beds since 2009. We have been growing fruits and vegetables to share with the students and community since we started. Our main goal is to teach students how to make healthy choices for their meals. Our goal for this grant is to fix the garden beds because they are beginning to fall apart. If we don't reinforce them I' m afraid they will not support the growth anymore and we will have to close the gardens all together. We want to build concrete boxes around the existing beds and refill them with dirt and new plants. We want to make the gardens beautiful again.

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