Garden Classrooms

Oak Grove Montessori School

The Oak Grove Montessori School Greenhouse and Community Service Project has been born our of a desire to connect the amazing community service work that the students do here with our greenhouse. The goals of our garden is to teach and learn the science of gardening and growing. Our garden and our greenhouse are referred to as the "outside classroom." We then are connecting our community service efforts to the harvest. The grant will allow us to keep up with the equipment and materials we need to continue to grow this amazing garden and community service program.

Newark Christian School

Newark Christian School (NCS) has been operating K-8 since 1984, in a poverty stricken area of Newark, New Jersey. For years our teachers have wished for a school garden, some years using a vacant lot on the street. Having our own school garden will enable practical lessons in science, history, and health, getting their hands dirty and tasting the fruit of their labors in a concrete ridden city where few families attempt to grow food or incorporate many vegetables into their diets. Our goals are:
1) to ignite a passion in kids to pay attention to what food goes in their body

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The goal of WITS Green for Kids program, utilizing hydroponic Tower Gardens, is to increase environmental awareness and develop sustainable practices in public schools. Because the Tower Gardens are mobile and able to grow almost any fruit or vegetable, students can connect to nature anywhere in their school. The Tower Gardens will featured in the WITS Green Labs, hands-on educational classes on sustainability topics, used as aides in WITS cooking/nutrition classes, and also made available to teachers for use in their curricula.

Kotlik School

Our school garden's goal is to provide cost effective fresh produce to our students' families. We live on the edge of the tundra, and though fresh meat and seafood is abundant, fresh vegetables come at a premium at the local store.

Lincoln School

The positive engagement of staff (working with students) and the learning opportunities that will help our students achieve their learning expectation in their Unique Science program to include lessons in math and reading relative to their experience in gardening.

Ridgedale Elementary School

Our goal is to implement at least 8 different gardening projects (e.g., companion planting, edible roots, composting, vermicomposting) with students that utilize raised beds and associated indoor gardening components.

Galiano Island Community School

The Galiano School Garden is coordinated by the Community Food Program, part of the Galiano Club. The Food Program builds community by growing, preparing, preserving and sharing food. Strengthening island food security, we value collaboration, inclusiveness, healthy growing practices, sustainability and equal food access for all. The garden is the outdoor classroom where we involve community members and integrate learning. With this grant application, we request funds for the continuation of our School Garden program, started by a teacher in 1992.

Dr. Norman Crisp

The goal for our school garden is to create a functioning vegetable garden which will allow the students the chance to have a variety of experiential learning opportunities. Some of these learning opportunities would include hands-on learning of nature, teamwork, as well as learning about nutrition. These learning opportunities are extremely important to our community of inner-city learners, most of which have never seen a garden up close. The ability to produce their own healthy food is enormously powerful.

San Miguel School

The San Miguel Garden Project started in 2013 with the help of volunteer, Sue O’Malley. Sue is a volunteer from St. Sebastian’s, a private school in MA that has adopted San Miguel as part of their community outreach. Sue has donated time and treasure to create a garden with annuals, perennials, fruits and vegetables. She has worked closely with the students to create a garden that will support the students’ academic learning as well as provide some nutrition for growing boys. In 2013, the students planted cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, lettuce, blueberries, strawberries, and sunflowers.

Montessori Hale O Keiki

Montessori Hale O Keiki (MHOK) School Garden program aims to:

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