Garden Classrooms

Washington Elementary School

Our gardens goal is to raise edible vegetables and herbs. In the process we are educating our students on the process of how food begins as a seed, grows, and ends up in the grocery store. We want our students to know that food can be grown locally and not just boxed or canned and in the grocery store. We are teaching them about the work that goes into raising a garden such as weeding, planting, watering. We want to teach them healthy habits such as eating fresh organic vegetables and herbs.

Gledhill Junior Public School

The Gledhill school vegetable garden is maintained by parents and school staff. Last year the garden, located in the common area at the rear of the school, was used by about forty students in two classrooms. Gledhill staff, with support from the Gledhill School Council, are looking to grow student involvement annually.

Pacific High School

I work in a high school that is divided by grades. On Lower Campus, we have grades 9 & 10. On Upper Campus, we have grades 11 & 12. I teach the 9th & 10th graders. We also have First Steps & Jump Start on Lower Campus. These day care programs support our teen parents as well as the community.

Belmont High School

The garden was created by the Belmont High School Garden and Food Justice Club with the support of the Belmont Food Collaborative. Students built, planted and tended the garden during the spring. Over the summer students harvested and delivered the vegetables to the Belmont Food Pantry. The grant will allow them to add blueberry bushes to the garden area and to construct improved fencing. When the blueberries start bearing, the fruit will be donated to the Belmont Food Pantry along with the vegetables the students currently grow .

Mendocino County Community School

The MCOE Youth Garden's learning objective is to provide students ranging from Preschool to 12th grade and their families: access to healthy fruits and vegetables, provide nutrition instruction, create and instill healthy lifestyle practices. The garden serves as an "outdoor classroom" and provides an ideal setting for students to learn agriculture, science, math, nutrition and a variety of communication skills while appreciating nature and positive community interactions.

Guardian Angels School

The goal of our school garden is to teach our children, from an early age, what foods will help them grow and maintain a healthy body.
We will achieve this by:
1. Stressing the more plant-based foods they eat the stronger and healthier they will be.
2. With a strong and healthy body their minds will be able to learn and comprehend more.
3. Teaching the children where the plants they eat come from, how they start from seeds and when cared for in a natural and responsible way, grow to be harvested and eaten to nourish their bodies.
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HATCH Family School

The school garden at Cooper B. Hatch Family School will be a learning landscape for teachers and students. As a brand new project, our goal is for the students to have a budding and healthy relationship with food and the environment. We believe that the school garden will provide just that.

The Calhoun School

Last year we purchased a Tower Garden for use indoors. This year we purchased two more. The vertical tower allows for 28 plants to be grown aeroponically in a 2.5 square foot space. Our goal is to purchase two more towers with this grant. One for us and one for our partner school in the Bronx, The Family Life Academy Charter School. We plan to place the towers in classrooms so that the process of growing plants is part of the life of the school day rather than an added program.

Bhaktivedanta Academy of North America

Our school has had small square foot gardens for the past 2 years. With new classroom buildings now in place, we are planning to expand the garden area, incorporating permaculture systems, fruit trees and other perrennial plants, in addition to constructing new, more permanent square foot gardens for vegetables. This grant would allow us to set up the proper foundation for the area, purchase trees and plants, and purchase necessary materials for constructing the square foot beds and soil mixture.

Jewish School of the Arts

The goal of our garden would be three fold.
1. Research has shown that children who experience hands on learning, learn better than children who are taught to memorize or hear about facts. This garden will give the children a hands on experience where they can actually see how plants grow.
2.Our garden will excite the children to try new fruits and vegetables. After plowing, planting and watching their little seeds grow, we have no doubt the children will be thrilled to try their creation.

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