Garden Classrooms

Sam Houston Elementary

Our school works very hard promoting healthy eating and healthy habits. The Physical Education department runs a very successful program, teaching about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Our entire school community is involved from our students to our teachers, staff, and parents are always learning and spreading the news about making the right choice. That is why this project is important to our school specifically because students will continue learning about healthy eating and gardening also teaches focus and patience, cooperation, teamwork and social skills.

New Horizons School of Higher Achievement

Our goal is to get kids engaged in new learning and have new experiences. Part of these new experiences will be; introducing healthier eating habits, food choices and food sources. We would like this to be a food source for the school and the community and be a point of connection between these two. Lastly we want to incorporate this whole heartedly into our mindfulness curriculum. We incorporate meditation and yoga into our school day and the garden would fit in with both of those exceptionally well.

Riverside Youth Correctional Facility

Riverside Youth Correctional Facility (RYCF) is a female youth detention facility located in the small community of Boulder MT, housing up to 15 girls, ranging ages 8-17. In addition to being a detention facility, RYCF is an accredited school, offering a traditional curriculum, as well as specialized classes tailored to meet the needs of their unique population. Classes are designed to give students the skills necessary to face rehabilitation and re-entry to the community including financial planning, job success and the ability to be self-sustaining.

Palm Harbor Montessori Academy

The Whole Kids grant will provide funds to add an irrigation system and some additional Earthboxes and seedlings for our current garden project. We have teamed up with Home Depot and People Educating People Inc. to expand our garden program which includes hydroponic and plantar box gardens. With the addition of these materials, each class will have garden access right outside of their classrooms with the aide of an irrigation system to help keep gardens watered at the optimal times (in the morning and evening hours).

Bullock Children's Garden

In our Bullock Children's Garden/Outdoor Classroom lessons will come alive as students actively investigate while interacting within the garden. We will connect the concepts we teach in the classroom to real world experiences, while integrating literacy, writing, math, science, social studies, art, music, nutrition, and even concepts of engineering and technology (utilizing STEM concepts/units). This will all be accomplished while immersing the children in the beauty of nature, creating an interactive, organic, EDIBLE garden and integrating the Common Core Standards.

The Garden at AT&T Park

Located behind centerfield wall, just under the scoreboard, there’s a 4,320-square-foot edible garden that offers a bounty of fruits, vegetables, greens, and flowers. All year long, chefs harvest whatever’s ripe: blueberries, strawberries, avocados, tomatoes, peppers, squash, lettuces, lemons, kale and more are picked fresh and served in the healthy menu offerings of the two Bon Appétit bistros located inside the garden, Hearth Table and Garden Table.

Caldwell Elementary Garden's from the Heart

The Caldwell Elementary garden program is in its infancy and has grand plans!

Edible Olympic

Olympic Elementary serves one of the most socioeconomically challenged populations of Cowlitz County which itself ranks at or near the the bottom of almost every demographic measure of health, education, drug use and income in the state of Washington. Healthy eating is difficult for Olympic students and their families due to lack of ingredients, money, skill and time.

Kennedy Middle School Courtyard Garden

This program is a semester-long gardening class for sixth-graders.  Students start with soil and seeds and end the semester with recipes and appreciation for new foods.  We use sustainable, low-impact practices including composting and rain barrel irrigation.  We have created partnerships with many community agencies including local government, Master Gardeners, Lowe's, and others.  The garden program is 100% funded through grants and donations. 

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