Garden Classrooms

Oglesby Elementary

Oglesby Elementary is located in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood on the South side of Chicago. Montessori-style education has been integrated into the school and currently serves as an option for students up to the 6th grade. In early 2014 Montessori teachers initiated our school garden, as hands-on and experiential learning is integral to the Montessori style. However, we recognize that the garden has the potential to benefit the entire school and the surrounding community.

Live Oak Waldorf School

The LOWS Food Production Program was initiated in 2012 to integrate food production with education & community building, incorporating row crops, greenhouse, orchard, composting & animal husbandry.

Grandview Elementary

We love gardening at Grandview school! Currently, we have 15 , 4X12 garden beds that are on the school grounds and assigned to all the classrooms from Kindergarten to grade 7. The goal of our garden is to continually engage kids through hands-on learning so they develop the valuable skills needed to plant, tend, harvest and then share. This program runs completely by donation and grants. In the past,funding from Adopt-a-School and Farm to School have made it possible for us to run this wildly successful program year round.

Robin Hood

The purpose of the Robin Hood School Edible Garden project is to provide an outdoor opportunity to the students to learns about food origins and biology (such as plant development and butterfly development), and to provide a calm, natural place for reading and art.

Memorial Spaulding

Memorial Spaulding does not currently have a vegetable or herb garden on the school property. Our community is very enthusiastic about developing and maintaining such a garden. Our initial project will be to work with our community partner, Newton Community Farm, to build the garden and introduce the concept to our students. Our long term goal is to work with teachers across the grade levels, as well as our district science coordinator, to identify and extend curricular connections.

Red Oak Elementary

Red Oak Elementary would like to implement the "Garbage to Garden" project to establish a sustainable vegetable garden that uses environmentally sound practices. In the first project, we would like to establish an interactive worm composting bin using food scraps from the school cafeteria. In the second project, we would like to establish a hands-on vegetable garden. The students and teachers will be actively involved in this process because they will set-up the initial composting bin and vegetable garden.

Maximo Elementary School

The Edible Peace Patch Project seeks to address the impacts of racism and poverty in the Tampa Bay area by undertaking food system interventions. Through working with children and youth in the schoolyard educational gardens, we hope to make the community healthier, cultivate sustainable values, and encourage academic and social achievement. With this grant, we will be able to expand our use of our new seed table by adding an irrigation system. Once irrigation is added, it can become a more meaningful part of the seed germination lesson.

Evelyn Thurman Gratts Elementary

Our goal is to give our students an opportunity to develop their own fruits and vegetable garden. Our hope is that by giving our students and their families the opportunity to participate in this journey, we will inspire in them a new appreciation of the many gifts that nature has to offer, introduce them to the joy and satisfaction of growing fresh fruits and vegetables, and nurture an awareness about protecting the environment we live in. Our goal is also to integrate science and writing together as students engage in inquiry around what happens in a garden.

Tenino High School

Three specific goals for our garden are:
Goal 1-Improve nutritional awareness and promote healthy eating habits by engaging and educating students. Students will play a vital role in all stages of the garden including designing, planting, maintaining, and harvesting duties.

Portland High School

In an effort to promote lifelong, healthy habits for our students & a sense of community service, the idea of “Get Healthy: A Panther Community Garden” was conceived. The garden will be operated by students on school grounds, with future plans for a Farmer’s Market open to the community. The goal of this garden is sustainable supplementation of fresh fruits & vegetables to the Panther Pantry (food pantry for underprivileged PHS students currently serving 50 students).

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