Garden Classrooms

Noah Webster MicroSociety Magnet School

Every student in this urban, Pre-K - 8 school will discover that healthy, delicious food comes from the earth, not from the cans & boxes found on supermarket shelves. Our FoodCorps member will guide students through hands-on experiences in growing and caring for plants, introducing the principles of ecology, sustainability, stewardship and healthy nutrition. Mentoring chefs will demonstrate new and interesting ways to prepare a wide variety of foods to students who will be exposed to the names & flavors of delicious new vegetables, fruits & herbs.

The City School Waldorf Initiative

The garden grant will bring a deeper understanding of community and how many hands make light work. The process of creating a space for hands on learning and growing crop from seed to the bloom is invaluable in a child's foundation and gives a community a place to thrive. The children will experience an arc of hard work, dedication, failure, loss, and success ; an array of lifetime lessons. This garden will be a tangible dream for everyone involved.

Hermosa Montessori School

The goal of the school garden project is to fully incorporate the school gardens into the lessons for all grade level communities at the school. The Montessori teaching philosophy encourages integration of the student with the natural world, and use of the raised bed gardens encourage and enhance this learning process.

Our Lady of Fatima

Our goal is to provide nutritious local food for our school and neighbouring community. The plan is to build 8 raised garden beds, 4 for school planting use and 4 for local community use. We feel a learning garden will help students to understand where their food comes from and therefore increase their awareness of healthy eating habits. Many families in our area live in subsidized housing. Through the community garden beds we will facilitate families through the growing process teaching them to grow and access a sustainable source of fresh nutritious produce.

Manchester Elementary School

The goal and the purpose of this garden program is to provide a sustainable source of fresh produce to the student body, staff, and community. In addition to consumption purposes, the garden will be used for the students to gain hands-on gardening experiences, develop nutritional knowledge, and increase produce intake that will pave the way for them to make healthier lifestyle choices.

Jackson County High School

To expand on our small raised bed project to a full in-ground garden at our school. Our goal is to provide our students with the full experience from ground preparation to planting and maintaining the garden to harvesting and processing. Our goal is to develop a school market that replicates a farmer̢

Colonial Hills Elementary

Colonial Hills needs an outdoor classroom. Collaboration with the community will help our students learn about gardening. Gardening offers hands-on learning experimental learning opportunities in many discipline areas including science, math, language arts, visual arts and nutrition. A garden will also focus on

Cleveland Montessori

Cleveland Montessori, located in the heart of Little Italy, would like to have more interaction with the surrounding community. Also, while visitors come to the neighborhood for good food, there are few signs available about the history of the area. One goal of this project is for students to involve the community in a Settlers

Donlon Elementary School

Our goal is to start an afterschool garden club to create an outdoor learning space for all Donlon kids.

It is our goal to grow flowers and vegetables, and maybe some fruit. Some will be purchased or donated seedlings or bulbs, some will be grown from seed, some transplanted from home. We will teach life cycles, composting, insects, food choices, farm-to-table, ecology -- all the things you would want to integrate into a comprehensive program.

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