Garden Classrooms

Charleston Collegiate School

To educate students on the rigors and joys of growing organic vegetables and herbs. School curriculum is implemented for K-12, all students work in the garden. Vegetables are used in the school cafeteria.

Trinity Academy of Raleigh

Trinity Academy has two small raised beds on our campus that are designated to various grade levels. The students plant seeds, nurture the gardens, and harvest the produce year round. We utilize our crops for some personal use but also in donation form to organizations that will accept our produce. Our gardens parallel with our science curriculum as well as service learning. We would love the opportunity to have a garden dedicated to the entire lower school in order for all students to participate.

South Shore Educational Collaborative

Our goal for the school garden is to engage students by providing a dynamic environment to observe, discover, experiment, nurture and learn through hands on experience and direct connection to classroom curriculum. Our hope is to turn our courtyard into a garden to be a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from real life experiences and encouraging students to become active participants in the learning process. South Shore Educational Collaborative is made of up 4 programs and this garden will be a great opportunity to collaborate with other programs.

Mountain Valley School

The Mountain Valley School’s greenhouse has two main goals: to provide fresh, nutritious produce to the school cafeteria and serve as living laboratory space for k-12 science classes. This grant will fund resilient vegetable beds built of cedar and rich soil to fill them. The expected lifetime of these boards is around a decade: cedar resists rot. This will serve our first goal by providing a robust growing space for our vegetables.

École des Grands-Vents

The ultimate goal for our garden project is to create an environment where students of the École des Grands-Vents can actively participate in a school garden on a weekly basis, bringing them into greater contact with nature in order to better understand nutrition and the foods that they eat, which will enable them to have a more personal and intimate connection with food that will stay with the students throughout their lives and assist them in making healthy lifestyle choices.

San Luis Elementary

Through this grant, our school would like to offset the obesity cycle among our youth and create an environment that teaches the importance of nutrition through gardening, enhances the school educational curriculum by making it engaging for students, teach healthy behaviors as a family unit and offer fresh produce in a community otherwise considered a food desert. This is especially important because 75% of the adult population within Maverick County (Eagle Pass is the county seat) is considered overweight or obese and 13% have been diagnosed with diabetes (Texas DSHS BRFSS, 2010).

Environmental Charter School

The ECS Edible Schoolyard's (ESY) mission is to build connections with students, families, and the larger community through garden and kitchen experiences that foster compassionate citizens who feel empowered to make healthy food choices for themselves and increase access to healthy food for others. ECS values the whole child and honors students’ mind, body, and spirit through its holistic approach to education.

We envision the ECS ESY to:

Polson Middle School

We finished our first successful growing season in our school garden & saw so much excitement, wonder & curiosity from the students/staff involved! Our current goal is based on the joys, trials & tribulations we faced during the year experiences. To keep our garden successful & growing in interest, we would like to:
-expand our growing capacity by building more raised beds in our current garden area.

George Keverian School

The Keverian School Garden is a resource to help students learn about healthy eating habits. The after-school Garden Club and the elementary health classes maintain the garden. Through a hands on approach, students learn about the different parts of the plants and the growing process. They learn about nutrition and healthy eating. By growing their own herbs, fruits, and vegetables students get excited about trying new healthy foods. This grant will allow the school to purchase supplies and plants needed to maintain the garden.

Northeast Elementary

A+ attitude brings about change
In creating a viable learning environment for our students, we at Northeast Elementary are creating a nine month pilot program in which we are teaching our students to become productive members of society through learning, application and service. We will accomplish this by creating a three tier approach
The first tier is education:

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