Garden Classrooms

Crossway Community Montessori School

The goal of the garden grant would be to invest in three Cold Frame Greenhouses, seeds and potting soil for them. These greenhouses would enable the school to grow vegetables such as lettuce and spinach during the winter months. The garden part of the curriculum would then be active all four seasons and would complement the three existing outside gardens. The produce from the greenhouses would be utilized in all cooking for the classes, and the 100 students in the school could observe, maintain, and cook with the produce from the greenhouses.

Palmer Elementary

Our goal is to incorporate gardening and fresh produce year-round for our school community. Currently, we participate in the Garden to Cafeteria program with Denver Public Schools. We have been able to harvest fresh vegetables for our cafeteria over a two to three month period, but would love to continue involving the students in healthy, school-grown produce through the entirety of the school year. We recently had a green house donated by a community partner and are very excited to use this resource to meet our goals.

White Plains Academy

The mission of Putnam County Schools is to produce individuals who serve and participate productively in society. The WPA garden works whole-heartedly toward that mission.

Teachers incorporate activities into daily lesson plans enabling them to reach students on another level, volunteers receive satisfaction from a successful service endeavor, and the community will ultimately become the benefactor from a project that has the potential to create gardens designed to provide abundant and healthy food choices for residents.

East Somerville Community School

We are starting our garden from scratch after a devastating fire severely damaged our school in December 2007. The old garden was destroyed along with much of the building. After nearly six long years of rebuilding, the school finally reopened this September.

Calvert Elementary

The goals of our community youth garden will be to impact 150 + youth, many of which have limited resources to healthy produce, with gardening skills, nutritional education and a general sense for the importance of supporting your local farmer. We will measure this success by utilizing the "Organ Wise Guys" curriculum, along with health and fitness testing. Students will be able to plan and organize local community night to showcase the produce they have grown, along with the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

William M. McGarrah

We recently had to reformat our garden area due to flooding issues. The goal of our garden is to incorporate math, science, health, social studies and art to engage students in learning the importance how food. Students will be able to see and cultivate life and gain an understanding of the life-cycle.

Hall Fletcher Elementary

This grant will enable us to comprehensively re-enforce the standards of nutrition learned in our 4th grade Nutrition Unit within the Common Core Science Standards. This grant will make it possible for 44 students, of a lower income status, to participate in a ̃

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School

Our Garden of Eat-Um has evolved from a vision to reality, providing food for our school cafeteria, local food pantry, and a school fundraiser, in addition to countless learning opportunities. The Garden has bloomed via donations, volunteerism, community support, and sweat equity. We began with 15 raised beds, and have more than doubled those. We also have a 35-by-35-foot St. Peter's Plot for potatoes, carrots, onions, and rutabagas for a school fundraiser and use in our school cafeteria, a large community herb garden, and a new community bed for asparagus and rhubarb.

Washington Elementary

We would like to continue operating our current school garden. This garden is rented from the community garden plots and used to produce vegetables for our students to sample. This grant will enable us to continue renting the garden, as well as, purchase seeds in the future. New gardening tools will also need to be purchased, due to a new school garden coordinator being in place.

Edward Devotion School

Our garden is primarily used as a way to enrich a variety of curricula, as well as a vehicle for opening up students' awareness of local food/plant growth and cycles. We built the beds three years ago with PTO funding and Brookline Parks Department support, and this year we have a local Brookline Education Foundation grant for teacher collaboration in using the garden and creating curriculum tools.

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