Garden Classrooms

Rio Grande High School

The Rio Grande Garden seeks to build community and educate our students about real food and healthy living. Our school community struggles with obesity and poverty, so the garden engages students with the rich agricultural and food traditions of the area. Special Education uses it to help students feel pride and ownership while learning hands on skills. The culinary arts classroom uses fresh produce in their recipes and curriculum now explores what sustainable, local and real food looks like.

Midland Park Junior/Senior High School

The goal of the garden is to have students learn about soil, growing plants from seed, producing edible vegetables and fruits, plant care, propagation, sustainability, and composting as a form of recycling. Agriculture and farming to feed the world will be discussed. The garden will teach students how to garden and produce food to feed themselves and their families. Pollination by bees will be taught and the importance of bees in producing fruits and vegetables. The students will visually see the bees working in the garden to help understand how reproduction occurs.

Universal School of Life

Our garden goal is to keep developing our pilot program in order to reach more children in the neighborhood. The program also have an outreach goal where families are invited to participate to learn and grow their own organic food with their children. (and support the school to farm program) The project has a multi-discipline component to make it more attractive and more sustainable. An example of this is a play ground and/or obstcacle course just attached to the children garden area so children can share their time between garden activity and sport or play time.

Lincoln Elementary

Our long-term goal is to have our students help plant, maintain and harvest vegetables throughout the school year. Depending on the amount of vegetables we harvest, we hope to serve them in our school cafeteria for student lunches. In addition, we plan to sell the harvested vegetables to our school community when we have other events in the school, i.e. evening band concerts or open houses.

Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

(THE BELOW STATEMENT WAS WRITTEN BY THE SOTA FARM CLUB STUDENTS)

The Farm Club is dedicated to educating, encouraging, and empowering students to become active on the school farm while practicing and promoting ecological awareness and sustainability. On the farm, students engage in activities such as digging soil, planting crops, harvesting crops, and building additional farm facilities.

In addition to this, The Farm club holds many community outreach events and workshops.

Samuel Smith Elementary

We are committed to providing our students with a dynamic, varied learning environment while emphasizing lifelong healthy habits. Our school garden will help us reach this goal. Every seed planted sprouts a new opportunity for kids to develop healthy eating habits. Learning about the process of growing food helps children develop a deep understanding of the connection between healthy eating, a healthy planet, and a healthy body. The Smith School garden will offer an opportunity to integrate math, science and health curriculum into a dynamic, interactive setting.

Warner Ave Elementary

Our goal is to expand our K garden to reach all grade levels in our school and provide children with enjoyable education about food, horticulture and their natural environment. We wish to positively influence their food choices, provide life sciences education outside a classroom and begin composting food waste. Our garden will provide edible resources for food preparation. We can encourage children to choose healthy food by engaging them in fun, hands-on experiences growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing food from a young age.

Park Side School

This garden grant will make it possible for our school to improve and repair our existing area and provide educational resources for students and teachers. This grant will enable us to provide the resources to replace or repair garden beds, reinforce shade over the work area, secure fencing, and obtain needed supplies for gardening and educational garden-based activities.

Princeton Friends School

Our garden's goal is primarily to create access for young students (beginning with 3rd grade) to make myriad connections between what happens within the classroom to what happens outside. Our school's Quaker foundation means that we begin this project with awareness of the importance of direct experience and observation as we encourage students to reach a deeper understanding of the value of stewardship and their connection to their inner selves as well as others.

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