Garden Classrooms

Y.O.U., Inc. Educational Day Academy

The YEDA garden currently includes tomatoes, several types of peppers, and a large planting of basil. In addition to these raised beds Peter and the students have created an herb garden containing three different types of basil, rosemary, garlic and onion chives, thyme, tarragon, chocolate and spearmint mint and oregano. This project would allow the team to expand their vegetable offerings, since there is ample room to expand the number of raised beds on the school property.

Johnson College Prep

This garden has two goals: first, to serve as a teaching garden for the students of our school. Second, to serve as a community service and outreach opportunity for the students of our school. Our students are required to do 40 hours of community service in order to graduate from our school. This garden provides steady, accessible, and meaningful hours of service for our students. While they serve they are also learning gardening skills and interacting with members of the school community.

Thomas Benton Elementary

The goal of our garden is to provide urban students with hands-on learning in the garden to build background knowledge and experiences. In this project, students will use greenhouses, raised beds, and other "green science" equipment to build nutrition knowledge and urban gardening skills and tie these to strategies that will allow them to begin to make sound decisions regarding their own fitness and nutrition. In turn, the informed decisions our students make will positively impact and influence the families and community around them.

Lockwood Elementary School

The goal of our garden is for it to be an educational and welcoming space that students and teachers feel comfortable using. We are so proud of our current garden, but in such a big space we have plenty of room for expansion. We are excited to create an "outdoor classroom" space and build a few more beds. We are also excited to put up the hoop house that was recently donated to us. We hope that with these changes, every grade can be involved in planting a garden bed and that teachers will feel better about using the garden as a teaching space.

Elizabeth Baldwin

The goal is to help local low-income urban children learn how to grow vegetables, develop a taste for them, and ultimately be able to help steer their families toward them in order to combat childhood obesity in the community. Additionally, the garden will be used as a site where science and math lessons can be taught. Ultimately, we hope it will be a community gathering place- where parent/community volunteers come to spend time outdoors with their children.

Valley View Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to help educate our children and their families in understanding how their food is grown and how they can use it to learn healthy ways to use it. We want to expose them to new varieties of foods and to appreciate the need for eating healthy and making good choices.

Deroche Elementary School

The medicine wheel garden will be for reflection and healing in our community. It symbolizes the inter-connectectedness of all living things. The pillars of harmony, respect and balance make it an invaluable teaching tool in our predominant aboriginal community. We also encourage families to come and sit and reflect at the garden, to help be a part of creating something significant and long-lasting that will benefit all the community and teach our children about their culture. We anticipate school and community activities and ceremonies around the Medicine Wheel.

The Active Learning Elementary School PS244Q

The goal of our garden is to grow vegetables that our students can taste as part of their nutrition education. We provide our students with a comprehensive nutrition education that involves them tasting healthy foods every third week. The opportunity to grow our own vegetables adds a unique dimension to our program as it would give ownership to our students over the food they eat. We would also use the garden in science classes, helping to teach students about how plants grow.

Carlos Gilbert Elementary School

The Whole Kids Foundation garden grant will help fund ongoing garden activities.

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