Garden Classrooms

Live Oak Learning Center

Plant It, Grow It, Eat It! this is the goal of our school gardening project. Odyssey After School has been blessed with a new campus where there are existing raised beds and several acres that are available to us to develop our garden.The only missing component is money! Odyssey is located in South Texas and we deal with the huge problem of childhood obesity and diabetes that is prevalent in our area. It is Odyssey's goal to introduce our students to healthy food choices, the joy of growing ones own food and the results of planning and consistency needed to accomplish a good result.

Moanalua Elementary School

Moanalua Elementary School is requesting $2,000 to support the school’s vermicomposting bins and vegetable garden that is part of the third grade student’s science curriculum.

Butler Elementary

The Butler Garden space has laid dormant and over grown for 3-4 years. Our initial goals are:
1. To provide 120 Fifth grade students, in the middle of a metroplex, a space to cultivate soil through composting, and to plant edible vegetables and herbs they can water, weed, grow and harvest each Winter and Spring.
2. To provide a place for community members to share their gardening expertise with a student groups of scouts or future garden club participants.

Donnelly Elementary School

The goal primary goal is to improve healthy eating habits in our 120 students by engaging them in growing their own food, trying new fruits and vegetables learning about nutrition and how to grow food at home. Additionally, the garden already has provided tremendous opportunities for cross curriculum learning and community involvement. This grant will allow us to install an irrigation system that makes summer maintenance easier and also purchase grow lights to enable classes to start seeds in the spring.

Linscott-Rumford

Our basic goal is that students will acquire some basic gardening and horticultural knowledge, learn about and appreciated where food comes from, work together in groups to help with leadership and teamwork skills, and ultimately they make smarter, healthier food choices outside of school and in their daily lives.

Belleair Elementary

The goal of Belleair Elementary’s garden is to make it a usable learning space for school classrooms. Our current garden contains 6 above-ground beds previously installed by The American Heart Association. Beds are assigned to classrooms and teachers help students maintain the gardens. Recently, the water line connecting water access to the garden area was accidentally cut. This grant will help us re-establish this water line as well as provide funds to purchase seating and other resources to begin establishing an outdoor classroom gathering area.

Verde Valley School

The VVS Global Garden was established in spring 2013 using almost all found and recycled materials. Students made the exterior fence using recycled pallets, rock cairns, scrap metal, and an old school bus for the tool shed. Our motivation for building the garden was threefold: to provide a sustainably-grown, local source of produce for our dining hall, to involve students in all aspects of garden management for educational and practical purposes, and to use the garden as an outreach tool for the local community to learn more about sustainability.

Merrimack Valley High School

My class truly believes in "from farm to table." My life skills, food choices class has been learning about where and how we get our food. Most students want to eat healthy but are restricted at school due to our school lunch program. Our class goal is to build a garden at our school and be able to learn and create food for our class and for the entire school. Eventually it would be great to supply the school kitchen with our vegetables daily.

Woodstock Union Middle High School

This project represents the synergy between Farm to School and the Horticulture department at Woodstock Union Middle and High School. The goals of our groups are 1.) To increase local food options being served in the cafeteria 2.) To facilitate a working school garden and greenhouse 3) To build relationships between the school and the greater community 4) To integrate food education through the discipline. We currently have an operating garden and greenhouse that serve as classroom extensions for many disciplines and student groups.

Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores

The goal of our garden is to involve our students in the creation and ongoing maintenance of an edible garden. Our garden is used as an educational resource for our classrooms and lessons and curriculum are tied to the growing of vegetables, trees and plants by both the middle school and high school programs. The students will also be introduced to healthier eating options as they will be picking the produce and taking it home to prepare for their families. The grant will afford the funds to allow the purchase of additional tools and a larger safe storage place for them to be kept.

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