Garden Classrooms

Carolina Voyager Charter School

Here at Carolina Voyager Charter School we focus on preparing young explorers for their 21st century journey-and what better place to explore than a school garden! Our goal for this exploration garden is to stimulate curiosity and inquiry based thinking on the part of our students through their physical interaction with all parts of the natural life cycle of plants. This goal will be achieved through student, faculty, and community participation year-round in creating a sustainable garden, which will produce foods that can be utilized across all courses, and in our school’s cafeteria.

Nisaika Kumtuks

Nesaika Kumtuks is a new (BC School District #84) K-3 one classroom public school that opened in September 2014 in partnership with, Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre, Boys and Girls Club of Vancouver Island and Mid-Island Metis Nation. This unique partnership is desgined to offer a wrap around service to families and strives to embed aboriginal content and culture into daily teaching and learning. We believe that the outdoors is an essential place for children to explore, investigate and extend their understanding of all areas of the curriculum.

Coahoma Agricultural High School

Coahoma Ag High (Aggie) began a turnaround in 2014-15. With oversight from the Miss Dep of Edu (MDE), all students at CAHS are now part of new Ag programs. Ag pathways are part of a college prep diploma. The goal is to provide a relevant experience that prepares students for college and careers.

Reddix Center

The goal of the Friendship Garden is to change the learning landscape of a student with special needs by creating an engaging and meaningful edible garden experience. This grant will help our school expand a working garden for the use as a living laboratory for our special needs student population. Students will develop gardening and leadership skills. The garden will provide an opportunity for our culinary students to develop leadership and life skills when learning to problem solve and work as teams in their kitchen gardens.

Menlo Park Academy

The East Side Youth Garden is an experiential learning garden for low-income youth located in the “backyard” of East Side Neighborhood Services (ESNS). Created in 2001 as part of the ESNS Youth Department’s Upper Elementary program, the garden is also used by Menlo Park Academy, an alternative high school.

James F. Doughty School

We plan to plant a raised bed garden on the school grounds at the James F. Doughty Middle School in Bangor, Maine. The goal of the garden is to supplement student learning as well as contribute to students' health and wellness. The James F. Doughty School serves Grades Middle School in Bangor, an urban service area within a largely rural part of the state of Maine. Sixty-five percent of the students at the James. F. Doughty School are eligible for free and reduced lunch, and many of these students do not exhibit healthy eating habits.

Alexander Youth Network

The goal of this project is to better utilize the garden as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of 72 children we serve as part of our residential and outpatient behavioral health programs. Gardening was chosen as one of our enrichment activities because it aligns with our view that healing happens when we treat the whole child – emotionally, physically, cognitively and socially. Gardening is a purposeful, constructive activity that targets each of these areas simultaneously. The ancillary goal of improving our garden is to expand supply to our community partner, Friendship Gardens.

Hinsdale Public School

Our school is developing a farm to school program so the students can learn to grow their own food. Our goal is to increase food literacy and change the food culture of the community. Over 90% of the food consumed in the community is imported from other regions. Very little local food is produced in the area. The community is located between two Native American Indian Reservations in eastern Montana, the area is one of the largest food deserts in the USA. The Agriculture department in the school is trying to grow the grower to help correct the lack of a healthy food network in the region.

Western Institute for Leadership Developm

Our garden venture is an integral part of our mission and identity. We believe in preparing our students to take leadership roles in building a sustainable and just world. WILD is located in an economically disadvantaged community, and our vision is that our indoor and outdoor gardens become learning centers for the entire neighborhood and community, with our young people actively engaged in promoting health, access to fresh and organic food, home gardening, and environmental justice.

The Peak School

The Peak School's mission: we seek to ignite passion for academic exploration and to cultivate learners who think critically, act with integrity, and inspire others. Students of diverse talents and backgrounds build a sense of identity and embrace their roles as local and global citizens. The Peak School Greenhouse classroom, at our high altitude of 9,100ft in Frisco, Colorado, will provide unique opportunities for students to engage in meaningful studies on resources and sustainability and gain understanding about the impact and importance of locally grown food.

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