Garden Classrooms

South View Middle School Courtyard Garden

Our overall project goal is to develop an under-utilized courtyard area into a vegetable and herb garden starting in the 2013-14 school year, and to use the garden as a living laboratory to enrich middle school student learning.

Escuela Del Sol Montessori

February, 2015. At last! It is here. Thanks to WKF, we now have a 360-gallon rain "barrel" to supply 4 of our raised garden boxes and the nearby trees. We were promptly blessed with a half an inch of rain, which filled our container completely!!! Since we are predicted to have our fifth year of drought, we are super grateful to get our spring seedlings off to a good start with clean and nutritious rain water!

Gulfstream Middle School

There are a few gardens on premise right now but we need to expand the program.

Our goal is Gardening Program to educate students and their families on how to grow and care for their favorite fruits and vegetables. We plan to teach them students how to plant what they eat and to eat healthy. Teaching them about different vegetables and how to prepare it in different ways and that is can be healthy and delicious at the same time.

Shorewood High School

The mission of the garden is to inspire and teach the students about growing food in the garden and to mentor them to become good stewards of their environment. We want them to understand the basics of gardening so it becomes something common and within their reach. We give hands on presentations/lectures on soil, water, insects, composting, winter and summer maintenance and planting for winter weather, which is our reality.

Nativity BVM Catholic Elementary School

The goal of this gardening program is to go "From the Trash to the Table." This will involve using biodegradable trash from our school cafeteria to help create our own compost. This compost will then be used to enrich the soil in each grade's raised garden. Each grade will then plant, raise, & harvest vegetables/fruits that will then be served in our school cafeteria Through this program students will grow to understand the chemical process of composting, the food cycle, and a respect for gardeners and farmers.

Western Middle School

The goal of the garden is to teach middle school children the importance of healthy eating by showing them how to grow, harvest and prepare food. Our hope is that they will take these concepts home and share them with their family. While we are only in the first few months of the program, we have seen considerable excitement and interest from the kids. We would like to expand on this momentum by planting 40 native blueberry, raspberry and blackberry fruit bushes around the school property.

Palms Middle School

Our vision for the garden at Palms Middle School is that we will rehabilitate the current garden into a burgeoning and thriving hub for multiple education, recreation, and nutritional uses. The garden has lied fallow for several years and is overrun and is in need of attention. We will restart the garden program by immediately rehabilitating the current state of the garden with tilling the ground, importing nutrient dense soils and by increasing staff involvement and classroom integration for students. There are 14 garden boxes already in place.

Abraham Lincoln High School

The mission of Lincoln's Edible Garden Project is for students to experience hands-on, participatory learning in the science, health, and English classes to learn about food, nutrition and their environment. Our goal for this year is to solidify and expand the existing garden program so that a greater number of students will have the opportunity to experience garden learning in their classes and after school programs.

RN Harris Integrated Arts Core Knowledge Magnet School

Since our school has 83% free or reduced lunch eligible students the goal is to be able to help feed students healthy meals over the weekends. We also want to be a resource to community families living at or below the median income level in the Durham, NC area.

Carthage Elementary

Our goal is to utilize the garden to provide education and hands-on experience to the kindergarten through 4th grade students who attend this elementary school. This school is located in a village and of the 90 students attending the school, over half currently qualify for free or reduced lunches. We want to involve the students and the community together for the children to learn about raising healthy foods and how the concept of "Healthy Bodies=Healthy Minds".

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