Garden Classrooms

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.

Taos Waldorf School

TWS seeks funding to transform our education through the ongoing development of our 11 beautiful acres of agricultural land at the foot of Taos Mountain. This involves the expansion of our edible garden, the refinement of a curriculum weaving the garden into our student's daily education, and the promotion of healthy dietary choices. Young children may sing songs about the garden, or plant seeds, while from the same garden the upper grades learn botany, biology, commerce, and so on.

Richard Green Central Park School

Our school is a pre-K to 8th grade public school with a many bilingual students and a high poverty rate. We are located in the heart of Minneapolis, with a wonderful lawn and park space surrounding us. We would love to put this space to use for our students! The goal for our school garden would be to help educate our students (through science, social studies, and other content areas) as well as introduce our students to nutritious, fresh food.

Imperial Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to offer our special education students the opportunity to experience the gardening process from beginning (soil preparation, fertilization, seed starting) to end (plant recycling, composting, consumption). The garden will also allow for extension of other curricular focuses, such as selling garden produce to learn about commerce/ money management for Math, etc. This grant will make it possible for us to continue to build our existing garden into a functioning and sustainable food source.

Benjamin Harrison Elementary

Our garden will increase students’ knowledge about food and nutrition and provide leadership opportunities as they plan, plant, and care for the garden. This grant will allow us to build on the success of the previous year’s garden by expanding our garden space to provide more gardening opportunities to a larger number of students. Our current garden has two raised beds where three families planted and maintained summer vegetable and herb gardens. Rearranging the space and adding 10 additional beds will provide more gardening space.

Hilliard Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to provide the opportunity for our students and staff to celebrate learn how nature works and the countless ways our systems interact with each other through the structures and practices of food, health and community. Our goal is to plant and cultivate healthy foods that would supplement our school cafeteria as well as our community food kitchen. Our students will learn better ways to eat "real" and choose a healthier, safer diet.

Dr. John Winslow

The goal of our school garden in to involve the school staff, students, their families and our community by providing an opportunity for all to participate in the care of this garden over school brakes and the summer months. We plan on incorporating a school garden into an existing free area in which a butterfly garden is already located.
Our school has a varied population. Some students come from a downtown town area with very little free space to plant a garden, and some come from a less dense area with families who do have gardens and farms.

Orlando Day School

Orlando Day School and Orlando Day Nursery Association, Inc. (ODN) are located in Parramore, a local food desert with three homeless shelters and a number of weekly rental hotels used by homeless families. Most of our school age children are homeless. Their main sources for food are the 7-11 and Burger King within walking distance of our school. ODN seeks to help these children develop a love for vegetables and fresh fruit while showing them and their families that these items can be grown to supplement their diets. Our school garden is planted each fall and spring by the children.

Las Vegas Academy of the Arts

Sustainability is one of the important themes at the heart of the Advanced Placement Environmental Science curriculum. When asked how our campus could be more sustainable, my advanced placement students immediately turned to an unused courtyard located next to the science buildings on the historic Las Vegas Academy of the Arts campus. Since August, students have been diligently transforming this space into a garden. They started by planting gourds and are now inspired to do so much more.

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