Garden Classrooms

Farming For The Future Academy, Inc

The goal I have with this grant is to build a 18x24 ft 3 season greenhouse. The "Onions for Autism...Veggies for Vets" program is a collaborative program between our students and the veterans residing at the Montana Veterans' Home. The greenhouse will allow both parties, community members, employees and the local elementary school to start seeds early, regardless of adverse weather conditions, to use in the 1/4 acre community garden. Many of our students and the elderly residents need to be outdoor, but have sensory issues to extreme weather.

Schmid

Our garden goal is for the school and community. We want to make people and students aware of healthy living. There is so much violence in our city. We want to instill the best choices of ways to spend time in our children. Healthy living starts with the thoughts, the air we breathe and taking care of the earth. This can be done with planting your own foods and eventually composting. Also taking care of the garden is taking care of the community. It is a form of empowerment and beautification simultaneously.

Christ Lutheran School

The goal of our garden's project is to take an unused space and make it a vibrant part of the school curriculum. We have planned a bed for each grade level, and one for the Girl Scouts who have committed to care for one planter bed. We also have room to add on for community groups once we get our school program rolling. We plan to donate extra produce to the hungry via the Church and the Utah Food Bank depending on how much we have to spare.

Seymour Heights Elementary

Seymour Heights Elementary School is striving to be an innovative leader and role model for outdoor learning in North Vancouver. We live and learn in an amazing natural environment. Seymour Heights Elementary also wants to redefine the classroom. Learning can happen anywhere; a classroom does not have to be inside, in a room, in a school, it can be in the forest, by the stream, in the playground, in a vegetable garden.

Dr. Barbara Jordon Elementary

Our goal is to take learning outside the walls of the classroom to achieve maximum student engagement. Kids who are fully engaged in learning will be better students and will retain knowledge longer. This will lead to many positives, including improved classroom behavior and better grades.

Morgantown Learning Academy

Our goal is to connect our garden with in-class curriculum for all grades from Pre-K through Eighth Grade. This will include hands-on reinforcement of our Curriculum Standards and Objectives. Our Lead Teacher is directly integrating garden activities into the curriculum while working with Project Learning Tree.
We currently have an afterschool cooking club which will incorporate harvested produce into its dishes. One of our other staff members is a chef and plans to use vegetables from the garden in cooking demonstrations.

Lake Seneca Elementary School

The goal of Lake Seneca Elementary School Garden Club is to continue to build on the two in-ground edible gardens already inside it's courtyard and in the coming year to become not only a popular after-school club but an integral part of the school community, integrating the garden into the students' daily school curriculum. In the last two years this garden has brought together a diverse group of students and helpers.

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Our goals are:
1. Maintain environmental awareness at St Kateri
2. Remain a Platinum Eco School through these type of initiatives
3. Be seen as a model for other schools to follow in their green space or school property
4. Teaching tool by having the students learn through garden clubs and incorporating it into all aspects of curriculum
5. continuing with our belief in giving to others
6. Mentoringship where the older students help the younger students plant and learn how to create sustainable gardens

North Middle School

North Middle School's Community Garden was first established as a partnership between Aurora Public Schools and the BRANCH. BRANCH is a University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus multidisciplinary student organization dedicated to becoming a sustained partner with Aurora communities by promoting, supporting, and implementing programs that encourage Aurora community members to take an active role in their own health and the health of their community.

D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy

Our goals are to obtain the necessary resources to enhance and sustain our existing school garden that was built on the campus of D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy last year by expanding community participation in the garden during the school year and summer months and increasing the hands on educational opportunities that we can provide for our students. When our school was opened last year, we began with 120 6th grade students who were all involved in the school garden.

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