Garden Classrooms

Kahuku High and Intermediate School

Our goal is to expand our Hawaiian Medicinal Garden that will:
Help create awareness of traditional Hawaiian herbs used for medicinal purposes
Encourage students interested in becoming pharmacists to try Windward Community College and University of Hilo's 6-year pharmacist fast-track program (which saves 2 years of time and requires students to take some AP classes during high school and working in a medicinal garden).
Be a place to grow taro (Hawaiian staple food)
Preserve endangered Hawaiian plants

Abingdon High School

The goal of the Round Garden Project is to build a series of round gardens that can bring students of different abilities, interests, and ages together, uniting them around an interest in growing food. The Round Garden is a 16̢

Prospect Hill Academy Lower

We envision the garden bringing our diverse community outdoors to share the space together. Teachers will be able to use the space for learning and the children will be able to interact with nature. Many of our students do not have the opportunity to grow food and to witness natural environments. It will also create at dialog between cultures.

Washington Village School

Currently we have 4 raised beds on school grounds, three of which have been in use in recent years. Our primary hurdles have been not having easy access to water and not having a nearby safe place to store gardening tools. With this grant, we intend to pay for a garden shed near the existing raised beds and run an underground water line from the school to the shed for easy, reliable access to water. Ultimately, though not with this grant award, we would ilke to purchase and use rain barrels to collect water for the garden to promote sustainability, as well as compost bins.

Gillis Day Treatment School

Whether bussed here every day from far off school districts, living here in intensive residential treatment or coming to our children

Helping Hand Home for Children

Helping Hand Home is a residential treatment center in central Austin that serves children in foster care ages 4 to 12 who have suffered severe abuse and neglect and are experiencing emotional and behavioral problems. The children receive therapeutic treatment, education and enrichment, and foster and adoptions services. The Home serves 210 children and family members each year, 70 of these in our residential treatment program.

Eagle Bluff Elementary

This grant would allow us to expand the use of our garden as an effective teaching tool, benefiting students, families & teachers. The goal of our garden is to teach students where their food comes from, encourage positive attitudes & behaviors regarding eating vegetables, to educate families about growing food, & to use it to enrich the science curriculum. Our garden reinforces efforts to improve the nutrition program by having students see how food grows & letting them be involved in the process.

Temple Hill Academy

Our goal is to be able to rotate all 255 of our students through the garden to learn the basics of gardening. This is a skill that very few of our students, all living in heavily populated urban areas, have but one that would not only bring them much enjoyment but a great skill to share with their families and to help contribute to their meals and overall health. We would like to increase the size of our garden to not only fill the entire green house but to a size that will supply enough vegetables to supplement the daily snack we provide for our students.

Northern Hills

This grant would allow us to expand the use of our garden as an effective teaching tool, benefiting students, families & teachers. The goal of our garden is to teach students where their food comes from, encourage positive attitudes & behaviors regarding eating vegetables, to educate families about growing food, & to use it to enrich the science curriculum. Our garden reinforces efforts to improve the nutrition program by having students see how food grows & letting them be involved in the process.

Ocean Springs Upper Elementary

Our goal is to expand our current gardens to accomodate the larger school population and especially provide easier access to garden spaces and add tall planters for our special needs students. The gardens provide a collaborative effort between the community and school body to enable the success of the gardens. The gardening process lends itself to planning, organization, and leadership skills bringing a relevancy to our curriculum. The creation of our gardens has been a perfect segue to immerse ourselves into the nine Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.

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