Garden Classrooms

Wyandanch Memorial High School

The goal of Wyandanch High School Community Garden is to unite the community, by educating both students and adults about the health and wellness benefits of gardening. My ultimate goal is to expand the gardening project over the years to the middle and elementary schools in Wyandanch. In conjunction with the Wyandanch PTO and the Wyandanch School Lunch Program, I plan to hold gardening workshops. A pair of our experienced gardeners will share information about our community garden, give gardening tips, and educate the community on the benefits of gardening.

Olmsted Early Childhood Center

Our goal is to bring generations together through the creation and development of our garden space while enhancing our curriculum with hands on learning. 300 Pre-K - K students in the Early Childhood Center and Olmsted Community Outreach'

Rocky Mountain High School

The goal for the Gardens at Rocky Mountain High School is to provide students with a hands on work opportunity in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster.

Peggy Carnahan

PreK-2nd children will make regular use of cross curricular garden investigations including observations and recorded environmental measurements using their five senses and scientific tools in the project. The first crops of leafy greens could be grown prior to the start of truly hot weather this spring, followed by climbing warm weather crops of beans and cucumbers. Reseeding flowers bloom in the summer available for End Of Year Camp, summer science camp or summer gardening club.

Pioneer Elementary School

Our goal is to build a raised-bed vegetable garden so Pioneer students can have consistent access to hands-on outdoor environmental education experiences over the course of their elementary school career. Over the last ten years, environmental education (in the form of Outdoor School and field trips) has been eliminated from our district curriculum. We want to create a school garden to provide teachers with an accessible, engaging way to integrate environmental education into their curriculum.

OJ Neighbours Elementary

Though our community is a rural one, the students at this school are within the city limits and many are not exposed to gardening or farming. Though we have successfully launched a garden already, this grant will allow us to expand the project and increase access to fresh vegetables for students in our programs. We will increase opportunities to convene partners to deliver nutrition education, while still preserving one component of the existing program (selling the produce from our garden at the local Farmer's Market).

Westside High School

The Westside High School Urban Agriculture Program, located in Houston, Texas, is a multi-disciplinary environmental vocation program that develops teens' abilities to grow, cook, eat, and sell real food as well as conduct practical scientific research in urban agriculture topics. With the assistance of the Whole Kids Foundation, we will redesign and expand the size of our vegetable, herb, and fruit gardens in an effort to create more space for students to develop horticulture projects, install a rainwater harvesting system as well as grow more food to eat and sell.

Milton Avenue School

Our goal is to to broaden the children's eating habits by planting, maintaining and harvesting a garden thus, teaching them through a hands on approach.

Crieve Hall Elementary School

Our vision for the Crieve Hall Elementary School Learning Garden is to provide a dynamic, interactive, hands-on learning experience that supports the sciences and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) (e.g., questioning, critical thinking) at every grade level. This garden will allow for class time outside while conducting science experiments, planting and tasting, and discussing, writing or drawing observations.

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