Garden Classrooms

Lynn Food and Fitness Alliance

The goal of this garden is to provide a safe space for the children to have an opportunity for experiential

hands on learning. They will also be able to learn from this garden where their food comes from and the

benefits of growing their own food. The opportunities go much beyond just the food from the garden.

It will be used in curriculum projects and for after school clubs to participate in. If they grow it, they will

eat it and this garden will promote the students to try new foods. This grant will give this school

Hazard Middle School

The Hazard Middle School 7 and 8th grades will utilize cross curriculum studies involving science, health, social studies, and Language arts.

Franklin Elementary

This grant will enable us to repair our existing irrigation system, expand our irrigation to our small orchard, and add a solar-powered timer. There is no electrical access in our garden and we are currently operating a manual system. These repairs will allow us to maximize our water use and provide consistent irrigation to our entire garden. Our vision is to have a community garden in which students, their families, and community members work collaboratively to create a sustainable garden and provide experiences to promote good health and nutrition, and social responsibility.

Prospect Hill Academy Upper Elementary

Our goal with this garden is to provide students with hands on opportunities to learn about plants and the growing of healthy foods. Additionally, by taking care of the garden they will learn lessons about responsibility and will see that even though they are young they can impact the world around them and make it more beautiful!

O'Connell College Preparatory School

A place to Read and Feed. The garden will consist of log planter box benches backed by trellis and placed in a circle to create an outdoor classroom. Students will to grow vegetables and herbs to feed themselves and the community. The Spanish teacher will be able to teach not vocabulary but practical language skills through gardening during his class..

Magnolia Montessori Academy

Magnolia Montessori’s FARM (Fostering Authentic, Relevant Montessori ) learning program provides a real-world, entrepreneurial education to its students in grades Pre-K through 6th. Through the creation and management of an agricultural business, Magnolia students will explore mathematics, language, science, and social learning through an experiential, standards-based approach. The FARM Learning program comprises a mix of agriculturally based learning opportunities including areas for raising fowl, growing produce using hydroponics and raised bed systems, and aquaponics.

The Children's Hour Academy

CHA makes learning a natural and fun process that involves the mental, physical and behavioral processes of every student. We believe that creating agricultural education in the form of a school garden would be an amazing fit to our pedagogical philosophy. It is critical for children to be empowered to grow their own food and in turn, possibly change the way our food will be produced in the future, and most definitely shape their personal food choices. Considering the nation’s problem with childhood obesity; we look forward to changing this trend at our school.

MTS Elementary

At MTS elementary we are focused on community. Our school as a community, but also extending that sense of community out word. We have two ultimate goals for our garden. Serving an urban population, our first goal is to immerse the students into the process that food goes through to get from the garden to the table. Keeping community in mind, every person within our school would participate in this process. This process would include making decisions about what goes into the garden, preparation for new additions, maintenance, as well as the harvesting and enjoyment of the products.

Wildflower School

Our garden goal is, essentially, to take what we already have and make it better. Seven years ago we started a garden in our school, turning an asphalt school yard into a diverse garden and play space with raised garden beds, a stage, and a story circle. We are now at a place where we need some additional support to push it further. This grant will help us further our garden goals by:
• improving and extending our irrigation system
• fixing up and optimizing the effectiveness of the wooden 3-bin composter we built

Suncoast Waldorf School

The Suncoast Waldorf School has approximately 50,000 Square Feet of potential garden space. It is comprised of existing gardens, play areas, and meeting areas. The school intentionally exists within a natural environment that plays significant role in how, when, and where the children learn. Melissa Manning has been trying to create a Food Forest. The effort has been incremental as monetary resources are limited and the food forest has not been incorporated into the school budget.

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