Garden Classrooms

Fresno Sustainable Schools Permaculture Program

We are building a school garden based on Permaculture principles, a permaculture summer camp, and trying to create a farm to school network.

Environmental Charter School

The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park creates standards-based educational experiences for students through the thematic lens of environmental content.

Mission

The mission of The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park is to educate each student to high academic learning standards using a themed curriculum that will foster knowledge, love of and respect for the environment and the will to preserve it for future generations.

Description

Hinton Elementary School

The grant will provide an opportunity for parents and students in our community to plant and grow many fruits and vegetables they need to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Students will use their math and science skills to build and configure the size and shape of the garden bed , while enhancing their knowledge and gardening skills . They will learn how each garden tool is used. They will also learn about cell structure and parts a of plant.

Pittsburgh Langley K-8

Pittsburgh Langley K-8, located in the southwest section of the city (the West End neighborhood) is Pittsburgh Public Schools

West Somerville Neighborhood School

This garden will raise awareness that even small plots of land in a densely populated area such as Somerville can be used to create community and to make the world a bit brighter and more beautiful. A city can feel impersonal, but a garden makes people stop and look. It makes people more connected to where they live and ultimately more invested in it.

Dufrocq Elementary School/ Slow Food Baton Rouge

Greauxing Healthy Baton Rouge is Slow Food BR's farm-to-school program. It is a replication of the Sustainable Food Center's Sprouting Healthy Kids program in Austin, TX. In our first year, we are working with about 100 students and three teachers at Dufrocq Elementary. The students with whom we currently work form two in-school MicroSociety ventures and meet for 3 hours per week.

New Heights Elementary

New Heights Elementary is a school constructed atop a brownfield location capping a former hazardous waste site. In January 2013, with the help of the Edible Peace Patch Project, the school installed a state-of-the-art modified huegelkultur raised beds. In partnership with GE Volunteer Program, we will add additional beds and an outdoor classroom in 2014. A grant of $2,000 will help to pay for the costs of installing and operating new beds. Combined with existing donations we will have enough funding to begin construction in January 2014.

Fox Road Magnet Elementary

The Fox Road Magnet Elementary International Garden will provide an outdoor learning classroom for our students in all grade levels. The international focus of our garden will make possible authentic experiences of two key components to our schools new International Baccalaureate program,

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