Garden Classrooms

Colonial Acres Elementary School

The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Leandro (BGCSL) is approaching the issue of increased obesity among San Leandro and San Lorenzo children through the lens of developing healthy choices that will lead to healthy habits. Our school families often do not have time to make healthy meals or know what constitutes a healthy meal. The Healthy Choices Program Goal is to increase student and parent awareness of and experience with healthy eating, nutrition, gardening and cooking and understanding the role of food in fighting obesity.

Ramsey High School

My goals for introducing this garden into the school courtyard are:
*I want to offer a farm-to-table opportunity for my Culinary Arts classes. The newly renovated, state-of-the-art kitchen/classroom has access to the courtyard where the garden would be planted. My Culinary Arts students, as well as students from the Environmental Club, would design and maintain the garden with the goal of offering home-grown meals to staff and students throughout the school year.

Newton North High School

Our garden is a multi-phased plan that offers opportunities for students to design sustainable gardens, care for and harvest crops, and gain an appreciation for agricultural time, which is unique in our fast-paced world. The garden spans several school programs, including Drafting, Art, Biology, English Language Learning (ELL), and the Culinary Arts. Funding allows us to add a greenhouse seed starter program, trellis, frame boxes for year-round gardens, and dwarf orchard to the existing cold frame herb boxes and tire planters for potatoes.

Pine River-Backus Area Learning Center

We hope to add season extension and growing capacity to the Pine River-Backus (PRB) Community Garden in order to offer greater hands-on learning for students participating in the Food-Youth-Business (FYB) course while generating food that they may choose how to utilize (prepare and eat, sell, give to school kitchen, etc).

Terra Linda High School

The MarinSEL LEAD project group this year plans to double the garden size and add chickens. In essence they want to turn the school garden into a school farm and by doing so change the mentality from "look we can grow food" to "we can feed our community". This is a significant shift in the minds of the freshmen who have worked in the garden over the past 3 years, and with your help they can actualize these dreams.

Ben Davis University High School

Over the past several years, dedicated staff and students at Ben Davis University (BDU) have created a beautiful garden. We are proud of our work, yet we seek to break the current limitations of the garden, expanding its reach around Indianapolis by providing organic ingredients for up-and-coming food spots. In particular, Rocket 88 Doughnuts, a new all organic, gluten-free bakery in downtown Indianapolis whose proprietor helped create the garden, has requested access to our student-grown plants.

Crenshaw High School

The goal of the Mother Of Many (M.O.M.) Crenshaw high school garden project is to enhance our seed to table healthy eating curriculum. This grant will make it possible for us to buy a mobile food science lab and support our growing farmers market. Located in South Los Angeles, a notorious food desert, M.O.M.'s mission is to provide fresh food choices to student, parents, teachers and community residents.

Friends Meeting School

The Great Garden Heroes (GGH) is a student driven group in charge of Friends Meeting School edible gardens. Made up of 1st through 4th graders it created a mission statement that states “to use our school garden to promote community by working together…..

Roosevelt Middle School

Our short term goal is to use all of the vegetables that we grow in our cafeteria. Our medium term goal, as we expand, is to use some of the vegetables in the cafeteria and give some to the food bank (on Fridays) to the food pantry that operates out of our school. Our long term goal is to expand enough to provide for the previous two entities and harvest enough to sell at a local farmer's market to pay for the next year's expenses thus becoming self sustaining.

Country Side

The main goal of the garden project is to raise student awareness of the benefits of growing healthy, organic food. We also introduce students to basic gardening skills and provide them an opportunity to sample a wide array of vegetables that they may have never tried before.

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