Garden Classrooms

Milton L. Olive Middle School

The middle school in our community has never had a food producing garden. There is a lot of food insecurity in our community and limited access to fresh produce. Having a garden will add fresh produce to the cafeteria menu and enable students to learn not only how to grow food themselves, but how to appreciate, prepare, cook and eat healthy fresh foods. The focus will not just be on having the garden, but also on how we can use the garden and its produce as a focal point for nutrition education at the middle school and for the community.

J. Albert Adams Academy

The goal of our garden will be to engage students in activities that promote healthy food choices, increase the awareness of environmentally friendly gardening, and enrich instruction in all content areas.

Oak Grove Middle School

Our goal is to turn a 50 x 50 foot area between two wings of our buildings into a thriving and verdant garden center for our school community. We would like to use this garden as a cross curricular launching point for projects including: Life science lessons on plant growth and biology, Mathematics lessons including area, volume and growth rates, and social emotional development by providing a natural and calming environment for students to work and grow. The food will ultimately be given to our students to expand and encourage a healthy lifestyle.

Crescent Montessori School

Our goal for the garden and the development that the grant will make possible is to construct and develop a small greenhouse to add to the current school garden. The cycle of growth from seed to seedling to plant and finally harvest is a cycle we wish to practice and one that the greenhouse will make possible.

As an extension of the school

Watson Elementary School

The goal of the community school garden is to educate students about sustainability practices. We focus on tying in the garden with school day academics and after school enrichment classes including healthy eating ad focus fitness. These activities are offered to students free of charge as part of a federal grant. The Whole Kids Foundation grant will allow us to continue funding our sustainability instructor over the next year and a half as well as purchase materials for the garden.

Spiritwood Manor

The gardens at Spiritwood Manor will make it possible for the students to utilize this communal space as a place to learn and socialize in a positive way with fellow peers and community members. The garden will be available to all children and their families who attend the Spiritwood Manor Site. As the site is on the grounds of Section 8 apartments there are plenty of families that could benefit from learning about the importance of health, nutrition, and community through a hands on Garden Project focusing on art, science, math, and health.

Everett High School

A primary goal of the Everett Gardens is to increase scores in Math, Science in ELA tests through hands on experiential learning. By encouraging purposeful learning through active participation, students will engage in instruction that is more relevant and expecting of personal responsibility and accountability for learning. A second goal is to have students understand the importance of food access and to create a needs assessment for our own community.

Spring Creek Elementary

The Todd County School District in Mission, SD is largely encompassed by the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. The reservation is mostly very rural and typically has the dubious distinction of having its major county, Todd, being included in most listings of the "top" 10 poorest counties in the US. Unemployment is epidemic throughout the reservation and the ensuing poverty brings a whole host of social problems along with it. Not the least of these is the affliction of being a food desert.

The Quaker School at Horsham

With this grant, we hope to expand our garden by at least 2 raised beds. Our garden has several goals: a hands-on science learning program; integrated cooperative learning experience; interdisciplinary curriculum. These goals all contribute to our philosophy that our students learn best by doing hands-on work in cooperative teams. These projects involve math, planning, critical thinking, collaboration, construction, as well as environmental science.

Connecticut River Academy

At the Connecticut River Academy, we believe in "connecting learning to the real world." We are an environmentally themed magnet high school that aims to incorporate acknowledgement and understanding of our natural world. Having a garden on our property further promotes this theme by exposing our students to the resources that sustain them. The goal for our garden is to promote healthy lifestyles and stewardship of our environment. We will be moving to a new building in January which will also allow us an opportunity to relocate and expand our garden.

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