Garden Classrooms

Greenwood Friends School

The Food Forest Classroom (FFC) project was started as a way to create a sustainable outdoor environment that engages students and the wider school community in creating beautiful outdoor spaces that respect the local environment, model stewardship, and sustain the community by providing food for the body and simple work with the earth that nurtures the spirit. Fostering a Food Forest Classroom on our school grounds will establish a permanent and sustainable model for how people can work with nature and design productive garden spaces using nature as a model, also known as permaculture.

Lois Craig

We are interested in establishing a garden for many reasons: improving student test scores in math, science and other subjects; teaching nutrition and improving student health, community development and also creating a garden that many of our disabled students can use. The garden will also be an excellent venue for hands-on learning.

Claude & Stella Parson Elementary

The goal of the garden is to make learning fun for our students. We are just teaching science now at our school and we want to get our students interested and engaged and we believe the garden will be a good way to do that. We also have a low-income community and many of our students do not have access to gardens at home so we would like to offer that opportunity

Beaver Dam Elementary

To give students the opportunity to grow, harvest and eat vegetables. Many of our students were surprised that they liked some of the vegetables grown in our garden. Students were excited to try new foods because they played a key role in the process.

River Valley Elementary School

Our goal for our school garden is to have a resource that will serve as a hands on learning tool for all students at our school. Our students in grades kindergarten through second grade study the life cycle of plants while third grade students go into the study of parts of plants as well as processes such as photosynthesis. We would love to incorporate a variety of plants and flowers to help our students have true hands on experience with these cycles. Students in 4th grade study Idaho State History.

Barnes County North

Our goal is to integrate our garden into all facets of the school curriculum, and across all grades PK-12. We plan for each classroom and discipline to be actively involved in this project.

Round Lake Elementary

Our goal is to provide a school wide project that will educate the students on the cultivation of nutrient dense fruits and vegetables necessary to maintain a healthy diet. The focus will be on the nutritional values of the food ,as well as teaching them how to grow their own.We will incorperate math,science,health and nutrition,physical education, as well as social studies

Bolsa Grande High School

Our garden's goal is to teach our organization's members the true value of working hard and self-reliance. To accomplish this, we seek to plant our own vegetables and since vegetables take time to mature, the members will have to be diligent in taking care of the plants, teaching the members the idea of hard work. At the same time, the fully-grown vegetables are edible and provide our bodies with nutrition. Thus, growing vegetables displays self-reliance since the members will understand that they are able to grow their own produce rather than always relying on the stores.

Longfellow Elementary School

1. Further expand production of the Salida School Garden- Holman
- Obtain equipment for garden expansion (January-March 2014)
- Work with committee to develop production plan and prepare the site (Feb-March 2014)
- Work with NCCC crew to plant starts in the poly-house, prepare garden beds, and expand orchard (April 2014)
- Install irrigation and begin planting (May 2014)
- Planting/ Cultivation / Harvest/ Succession Planting (June-October 2014)

Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School

Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School (PS 705), a dual language school in the neighborhood of Crown Heights (Brooklyn, New York) is requesting a $2000 grant from the Whole Foods Kids Foundation School Garden Grant Program to develop a school garden where students, teachers, parents and the community at large can engage in the pedagogical and health benefits of school gardening.

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