Garden Classrooms

Crestwood Elementary

The goal of our garden is to unite our community while feeding needy children in our school. We have approximately 75 students who are given food over the weekend. This food is pre-packaged and donated by a local church. It is the hope and desire of our staff to provide fresh fruit and vegetable along with donated food to keep our children not just fed, but fed healthy foods. This grant will make it possible for all of our children to experience the joy of gardening and the benefits of growing your own food across the lifetime.

Roseland Creek Elementary

The goal of our garden is to provide nutrition, science, and community education for 450 kindergarten through sixth grade low-income and English Language learning students.Teachers may find that the garden can provide space for other disciplines as well, such as math, history, or art. The main goals are listed here:
1. The garden will demonstrate to children how a project is first established, and then how it grows into a working entity that takes dedication and care from them in order to reap its benefits.

Yavneh Day School

We now have 3 garden beds assigned to the younger grade classrooms. Each classroom maintains independent gardens. Our vision is to have a school-wide JK - 8th grade garden that the students, teachers and families feels shared ownership and provides instructional value across grades, art classes and cooking club. This grant makes our garden expansion possible, both in physical space and curriculum design, creating a safer and user-friendlier space to accomplish this goal. (new tools and storage spaces, watering systems and protective fencing.)

Vancouver Waldorf School

As part of our Grade 3 curriculum, all students at this grade level plant, care for and harvest a small existing garden plot ("the Grade 3 Garden") as well as various apple trees on the school property. If we received this grant, part would go to enhancing our Grade 3 garden. Our school purchases organic produce from various farms and natural food stores, but we would like to have enough garden space for the children to harvest and contribute some produce to our classroom snacks, and community harvest soup event, and more.

White Oaks Elementary School

The purpose and goal of the garden is to bring the joy of gardening and food production to the children of White Oaks through an educational curriculum that meets key FOSS standards (our current science program). Currently our garden program curriculum is only utilized in the third grade. This grant would allow us to expand the program to additional grades. Eventually, we would like to have our garden program available for all grades at White Oaks (K-4). Our district is moving towards a Project Based Learning platform and gardening ties closely to this method.

Live Oak Charter School

Live Oak Charter School is a vibrant Waldorf-inspired school in Petaluma, Ca. As the school has slowly grown and matured, so have our grounds and programs. Last year, our community came together to plant a vegetable garden and pollinator garden for the nourishment and education of our students. In the coming year, we intend to expand the green space of our campus and convert a currently weedy, barren space into a small orchard of fruit trees.

Bolinas-Stinson School

The goal for our school garden this year is to fund a Garden Coordinator to support all K-8 teachers in creating a pilot garden program for the year 2014/2015. We have already applied for a County grant, two local grants (Bolinas-Stinson Community Fund and Bolinas-Stinson School Foundation), and our School Board has offered to fund between $3,000-$5,000 annually to support a school garden program to enhance science and outdoor learning in all grades.

Martin Luther King Elementary

We all know that healthy students learn better. Unfortunately, our students are missing the connection that good nutrition is essential for good health and good health is essential for performing your best. Our project is to create a garden where we will not only teach our students how to grow food, but also how to live a healthy life. Our garden will provide a concrete opportunity to reinforce pride of doing something on their own and the life long benefits that good nutrition has on their bodies.

academy of world languages

Our school population consists of many refugee families from at least 40 countries. There are over 40 different dialects spoken. It is our goal to develop an international garden showcasing the many different cultures of our school community by sharing different plants and vegetables. At the same time, showing the students where food comes from. Many don't know things grow in the ground. They think it comes from the corner grocery store. We would like to share the produce with the school students and families and possibly selling our wares to the teachers (if successful harvest).

John Philip Sousa Middle School

Kid Power plans to implement its successful "VeggieTime" Program at Sousa. First, students will complete a comprehensive environmental science and health curriculum. Second, students will apply these lessons to school gardens which will serve as an outdoor classroom. Kid Power has just constructed one garden bed at the school and now plans to install two fruit trees, five edible garden beds and, one native species pollinator garden.

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