Garden Classrooms

Orchard School

The Orchard School garden has been in existence for 15 years as an integral part of the school’s mission and identity. The Whole Kids Foundation grant would:
1. Expand our garden by adding four new raised planting beds to increase production of vegetables, herbs and flowers
2. Increase the quantity and quality of produce delivered to our school’s garden-based lunch program
3. Increase our 4-stage composting bin by 26% with new vermi-composting bin

Full Circle High School

The goal at Full Circle is to fully establish Somerville's first Hydroponic School Garden, nicknamed the Somerville Innovation Farm. Though the basic hydroponic systems have been acquired, our hope is to create a sustainable, interconnected system with aquaponic capacity to serve as an on-site lab for STEM-based education for high school students, and an educational destination for elementary students and afterschool programs throughout Somerville.

Da Vinci Waldorf School

Having the right person with a passion, plan and experience, the land to make it happen, and a community of support make the perfect mix for a successful garden curriculum. Now students in all of our grades can experience firsthand how food is grown, harvested, and prepared into meals. Their hard work and patience with the growing process will develop a respect for and understanding of nature and farmers. Funding for this program via this grant will sustain and expand the efforts that have already begun.

Odyssey School

If we are awarded this grant we will be able to bring our vision to life, literally. The Studio Arts
team, along with our community partners, have developed a plan to beautify our school grounds.
We have an above ground plot that needs attention so that we can grow vegetables. Next, we
want to create some containers near the kitchen where we can grow herbs. We
want to create smaller gardens in the front of school with drought tolerant
plants. We want to use what we grow to cook and create in the art and kitchen spaces at

W. D. Williams Elementary

The YMCA of Western North Carolina’s gardening goal is to increase self-efficacy, entrepreneurship skills, and nutrition knowledge in youth at WD Williams Elementary School, as well as impact the community through produce donation to the YMCA of Western North Carolina’s Healthy Living Pantry. The youth-led gardening program will incorporate numerous hands-on activities, such as cooking demonstrations, taste tests, nutrition education, and community service to ensure a fun, interactive learning environment.

Jordan Plus High School

My goal for this garden is to create a bio-diverse ecosystem filled with food, herbs, and butterfly or bird attracting plants, so my students and the neighborhood residents can experience nature and fresh food. The garden is located in an underserved neighborhood, so I would like to create an oasis where people can connect with nature. I am currently working on comprehensive signs to distribute throughout the garden, so it can be used as an educational space for myself and other teachers.

Cookson Hills Christian School

Each year, our garden gives 14 to 24 at-risk secondary students a chance to develop, grow, and market organic crops. It also lets them experience what it is like to raise a garden for home produce.

Our goals are to maintain these opportunities and expand the program to serve our elementary students, as well. Ideally, we could make the program available to 50 students. In addition, we would like to teach sustainability and environmental consciousness through composting.

Fonda-Fultonville Central school

The goal of our school garden club is to create a sustainable vegetable and herb garden. We are going to increase the size of our current very small garden. A grant to provide a greenhouse would enable us to start our own seeds and allow us to produce extra plants which we could plant and also sell as a fundraiser to help maintain the costs to sustain our garden.The food produced in the garden will be used by the cafeteria staff for the school lunch program. We would like to provide fresh salad vegetables 3 times weekly on a monthly basis throughout the growing season.

REACH school

• This grant will make it possible for all 50 students enrolled at REACH school, many of which have some form of developmental delay (i.e. autism, downs syndrome, fragile X, etc.), to build an awareness of where their food comes from. Many of our students consider the grocery store to be the main source for food and produce, and as educators we find this very problematic. The edible garden grant would enable us to provide hands on opportunity for our students to learn about the cycles of food production, and they would participate in every step along the way, from seed to soil.

Anderson Academy of Mathematics and Scien

The primary goal of the AAMS school garden is to allow the students an opportunity to study and grow plants.
Students will learn where food comes from and how to care for living organisms in their community. All subject areas will be addressed in this program.

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