Garden Classrooms

Christ Covenant School

Our garden's goal is to bring the life the lessons our students are learning in the classroom. Instead of memorizing the definitions of words, the garden is giving our students real-world examples of what the definitions for these words mean. This grant would equip our school with the capacity to take our garden to the next level and incorporate ways for our surrounding community to benefit from its presence.

John Winthrop Elementary School

Winthrop Elementary School's garden aims to provide students and families with healthy, locally grown produce and experiential learning opportunities. Our garden acts as an outdoor classroom, bridging concepts learned in science, math, english, and more with real-world experiences. The Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant will help our school develop our partnership with The Food Project, a non-profit organization focused on uniting youth, food, and community.

Cocopah Middle School

Our garden goal is to further students' independence and involvement in our school and community by allowing them to create tangible items that can be shared with others. Our ultimate goal would be to have typical peers working along side our students with disabilities to produce and maintain living things. With this grant, we will be able to impact our students' lives, not only to further our students' character but also to provide meaningful academic and social opportunities that will help them become contributors tat our school.

Kamali_i Elementary School

Our goal is to expand the Kamalii garden to provide nutrition education and curriculum support for all grade levels. Theme gardens, such as the Pizza Garden, Green Smoothie and Three Sisters Gardens match learning benchmarks for each grade and establish a positive relationship between fresh garden-grown fruits and vegetables and students

Browne Academy

Our vision for the Browne Sustainable Garden is to provide an interactive outdoor learning space for students to connect with the food they eat, experiment and explore a variety of natural process, develop an appreciation for nature, and thrive. Through this project we hope to provide a garden bed for every grade in the school, K-8, to enhance the curriculum and engage students in their learning.

Community Roots Academy

If awarded a grant we intend to use the funds to purchase the necessary tools and materials to construct and maintain an above ground garden on the school's campus. All of the work will be performed with the students and directed/managed by school staff and parental volunteers. We will incorporate lessons in math, environmental studies (including soil studies, environmental impacts, hydrology and biology), humanities and fostering teamwork.

Lincoln Elementary

We all know that healthy students learn better. Unfortunately, our students are missing the connection that good nutrition is essential for good health and good health is essential for performing your best. Our project is to create a garden where we will not only teach our students how to grow food, but also how to live a healthy life. Our garden will provide a concrete opportunity to reinforce pride of doing something on their own and the life long benefits that good nutrition has on their bodies.

John Hannigan School

In 2014, Hannigan was one of two schools in New Bedford that partnered with Grow Education (Grow), a program of the Marion Institute, to create a school-based garden. Grow offers teachers the opportunity to engage and collaborate through retreats and workshops, focused on enhancing community partnerships and incorporating garden-based learning into curriculum standards.  Through the creation of school-based gardens, Grow aims to increase accessibility to locally grown food and strengthen New Bedford community and public school collaboration.

Round Rock Opportunity Center

Our school the Round Rock Opportunity Center, has over the past four years built a garden spot from a vacant lot. The focus has been on wildflowers, native plants and other decorative plants. We have an unused greenhouse and this year would wish to expand our student's efforts to include starting, raising and cultivating vegetables, leafy greens, peppers and herbs. The products of this garden will be used to supplement school food program or, if sufficient, for distribution to local charities.

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