Garden Classrooms

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Autism is not a disability, it is a different ability.The ability to teach our students about healthy eating, and teaching them to maintain a better environment for them to live in. If our students were to be granted the opportunity to become gardeners their confidence levels, social skills and environmental awareness would grow tremendously. Additionally, being able to embrace a higher level of responsibility and for the students to build a stronger self esteem which in turn coincides with better relaxation techniques and important sensory skills.

Sunrise Middle School

In an effort to meet the students' interests, Ms.Vazquez began the Gardening Club in the last months of the last school year. This year, there has been record attendance and a desire by the students to beautify the campus. This is a student-driven club that depends on donations from the community, but seeing as how most students qualify for a free or reduced lunch, it is a challenge.

New Kent High School

It is our goal to add aquaponics to our existing horticulture program. This will add a new level of learning for our students as well as add a new production facility to our greenhouses by allowing us to add more vegetable and herb production as well as fish production.

Santiam Christian Schools

Santiam Christian's school garden is housed inside a large greenhouse and consists of eight four foot by eight foot raised garden beds. The garden's goal is to provide the JH/HS cafeteria and the elementary cafeteria with locally grown vegetables for the salad bar including lettuce, kale, carrots, peas and cucumbers. This will provide the school with a high quality product as well as provide education for the horticulture class in the raising and processing of food products.

Amelia Earnhart Elementary - Middle Scho

Amelia Earhart school believes in providing a wealth of activities that can reinforce and bring to life the concepts learned in the classroom. What better way to engage students in meaningful, relevant lessons, while still integrating manipulative, cooperative learning, and exploration and discovery, than a garden. The goals of the school garden are 3-fold. First, to teach the children concepts in science, and math while strengthening their character through teamwork, and helping shape their future through nutrition and health eating habits.

Pinedale Elementary School

Let’s Go is six week program where 20 students per term from Pinedale Elementary School participate in 2 hour bi-weekly sessions. The goals of this program are to 1) have fun with gardening, 2) learn about healthy food choices, 3) enjoy the feeling of success and ownership, 4) share harvested food with classmates and parents and 5) increase physical activity.

Belmont Elementary School

Belmont Elementary School will create an sire school garden for the purpose of providing participating students with a co-curricular activity focusing on wellness, cooking, gardening and "going green". This grant will it make it possible for us to construct a 16' X 16' raised bed garden on site for students to build, maintain and utilize produce in their newly created cooking class (90 grade 2 and grade 3 students). The students who work on this project may also be a part of our "green club" (grades 3 and 4)..

The Knowing Garden

This grant will enable our school to invest in planter boxes, tools and supplies in order to grow vegetables and herbs as part of our outdoor classroom. We see the creation of this school garden as a way to provide our students with a "living context" in which to explore, learn and grow. Founded in 2011, The Knowing Garden is an independent elementary school where students learn to learn, love and see the world through the eyes of innovators and catalysts.

Monterey High School

1. The students of Monterey High School who participate in Garden Club strive to produce organic and sustainable foods. Our goal is to raise awareness and consciousness about where food comes from amongst our peers, families, and teachers. We also hope to create unity and foster a more nurturing community in our high school by providing opportunity through weekly meetings and weekly Garden Days. Students who participate in Garden Club are also very passionate about the plummeting bee populations and wish to plant native plant species that attract local bees.

Gibsonburg High School

Our goal is to grow enough produce so that we have fruits and vegetables available to share with the student body. We currently only have two above ground beds, which is not enough. If we had appropriate funds, we could build more beds and in turn have more produce so that vegetables were available for students at no cost to them. Currently, we only produce enough for those students involved in the garden to take home and share with their family. We would like to extend this to ALL students!

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