Garden Classrooms

Leupp Public School

Leupp Public School and Terra BIRDS intends to achieve the following goals: 1) Engage all students in garden related activities including soil building, planting, tending and harvesting; 2) Teach students about the importance of making healthy food choices and help them to figure out how they can incorporate this into their daily lives; 3) Engage students in culturally relevant activities related to food and gardening; 4) Coordinate with the Science teach and the Navajo Culture teacher to include relevant topics in gardening activities to enhance classroom curriculum.

Island Montessori Charter School

Gardening is an essential piece of the Montessori method, where interacting with the natural world and the community is integrated throughout the curriculum. Students learn by exploring hands-on materials and real-life experiences. The garden will show students self discipline and social responsibility by allowing them to be responsible for its care, teaching farm-to-table concepts and sustainability, and by giving back to the community through donations and education.

ARISE Academy

The goal of the garden is to teach students about gardening and nutrition through various school science and liberal arts subjects. This project serves as a resource for students to take on leadership roles in their community. The garden is located in the Ninth Ward area of New Orleans, a designated food desert area with very few retail outlets that sell fresh food. The garden program curriculum includes lessons on the cultural, environmental, and community impact of gardening.

John Gill Elementary School

The John Gill School garden is part of the Gardening with Purpose program being lead by the Green Youth Alliance (GYA) at several schools in San Mateo County. The goals of the John Gill School garden are:
1. to increase access to fresh produce for low-income children and their families who are involved with the garden by optimizing the garden's yield;
2. to improve the environment at the site by planting edible native plants, which will also attract pollinators;
3. to increase opportunities for outdoor physical activity for the children involved;

Smith Elementary

The Smith Elementary Garden's purpose is to offer a hands-on activity that supplements the school day curriculum by providing real world experiences to students. In addition, the garden provides fruits, vegetables and herbs for the Smith community. Our goal for this year is to expand the garden.

Montrose Junior Public School

We have had a 20' by 12' school vegetable garden for 5 years. We would like to develop it by building raised beds. We have a group of volunteer parents who are willing to put the beds together and one of our parents has a contact who will mill the wood locally.

Dr. William Arnone Elementary School

The goal of the Arnone Elementary School Garden is to enhance student classroom learning through an after school enrichment program in the garden sponsored by 21st Century Schools. The after school program strives to utilize the garden beds as a means to bring mathematical and scientific theories to light using hands on experience. This grant will allow the garden to buy supplies to extend the growing season into the cooler months and supply a load of compost to dress the beds in the spring to ensure a fruitful summer harvest.

Academy of Arts and Sciences

The garden at The Academy of Arts and Sciences will be used as a classroom for CUESA’s model Schoolyard to Market program, which is now in its pilot semester at The Academy. This grant will allow us to continue the program there through 2015.

The students grow produce organically in the garden and sell it at our Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. They take field trips to working farms and participate in lessons about food, gardening, and sustainability.

Bridges Community Academy

With a large population of our students on Free and reduced lunches we will use the grant funds to start a garden in which we will grow fruits and vegetables to share with our families and provide our students with Healthy snacks.
We will invite our families to share a favorite recipe that we will reproduce and share with the families on how to prepare some of the food we grow.

Carbondale Community School

The Carbondale Community School (CCS) Learning Garden and club began in spring, 2014. Carbondale Community School is a K-8 public charter school with 135 students.

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