Garden Classrooms

Lac qui Parle Valley

Our first priority is to educate and inspire our students with the use of our passive solar greenhouse. This student-led project has directly involved over 100 students in the planning and building phases. Once we begin to produce greens our students will be able to enjoy healthy, fresh, organic salads grown in their own backyard. The greenhouse will be used as an ecducation tool to extend the classroom as the students learn real-world applications of the growing process.

St. Leo the Great Catholic School

The garden program seeks to enhance the nutrition and sustainability education components at St. Leo's school. CNGF trained college interns will teach the FOSS method using hands on science techniques and garden props.

Merritt Secondary School

This grant will make it possible for us to construct and fill raised beds, store our tools and materials (currently taking up space in the greenhouse) and provide space for us to work. Our goals are to set up our greenhouse and raised bed gardens for sowing in the spring of 2014; next winter, we plan to have the greenhouse producing cold resistant crops all winter for us. We will use our produce to supply our school cafeteria and one of our local sponsors has told us they will buy all of our excess produce. (Brambles is a bakery and restaurant)

Irondale Middle School

Our goal is to introduce kids to good nutrition and growing a garden for food and beauty. Secondary to that but equal in importance is to help kids learn hands-on science, food science/cooking from your garden, writing about a step-by-step process, and we will also use math skills with our garden. My personal goal for the garden is to give kids an experience of being connected to the earth. Many of our students have never planted a seed and I would like for them to have the opportunity of germaninating a seed.

CHARLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL

At Charlestown High School, we have an established gardening program that supports healthy living, environmental science, outdoors physical activity, and the culinary arts. Gardening brings together numerous areas of content knowledge and unites different classrooms throughout our school. It

Two Rivers School

The goal of Two Rivers Sustainable Farm (TRSF) is to improve the long-term well being of our students, families, school community and the greater Snoqualmie Valley. The four measurable outcomes intended are:
1. Increase 4-year cohort graduation rate.
2. Increase teen parent 5-year cohort graduation rate.
3. Increase passage on Mathematics end of course exam.
4. Increase passage on Biology end of course exam.
5. Increased attendance.

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