Garden Classrooms

Saint Paul School

The goal of this garden is serve as a practical and hands-on learning environment. Kids will maintain fruit and vegetable plants, caring for plants from seed to harvest. The process of growing will provide opportunities for teachers to incorporate subjects such as math, science, art, and health education in the classroom. Students will also complete gardening activities in the after school 4-H club. This grant will provide funds for equipment, soil and plants in order to start the garden off with a variety of crops. The community has donated some equipment to build a raised bed garden.

Shadyside Academy Middle School

Our goal ultimately is to educate both our students and community about a lost art. During the 1930s, schools around the country cultivated small garden plots and gardening was seen as a civic duty. It would be fair to say that this has become a lost art. We want to preserve this practice and knowledge and make sure it gets passed down to the younger generation. We want a complete sensory experience for our students. Watch Broccoli, Carrots, Kale, Potatoes, and Amaranth (i.e. food) grow from from seed, smell fresh crisp basil, and touch dark, rich, and complex soil.

Hollingers Island Elementary School

According to the Center for Disease Control, gardening with kids is one of the best ways to encourage kids to make healthier food choices. The concrete experience of digging in the dirt and watching a vegetable grow, will remove any fear a child has regarding that vegetable, and when the child sees that vegetable in the grocery store he or she will ask mom or dad to buy it. In addition to making better food choices, gardening will also teach students confidence, motor skills, and math and science skills.

Windsor Secondary

The goal for our garden is to engage and educate all 940 students at Windsor Secondary about where their foods comes from and most importantly, creating a sustainable food system.
Much of the Growing and Harvesting will be done by students in Foods&Nutrition Classes and used to create healthy meals.

Damar Charter Academy

Our garden is one of the most popular activities on campus because it combines fun with academics, physical activity and learning in an outdoor setting. Many children with developmental disabilities learn best when engaged in hands-on activities. Our teachers report the garden program increases learning retention, builds relationships and develops positive socialization. Wellness, good nutrition, recycling, physical work and community service are taught and modeled by staff.

Bordewich Bray Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to educate students about growing and eating healthy foods and enriching their lives through gardening. It provides hands-on lessons that are aligned with state and national science standards. For example, students put their knowledge of life cycles into action when they plant in the garden. This grant will allow us to expand our current garden and sustain it in a more eco-friendly manner with a better irrigation system. Through garden improvements, more teachers, students and families will be able to utilize all the garden has to offer.

All Souls School

The goal of the All Souls School Garden is to enrich the school curriculum with hands-on learning experiences and to promote healthy eating habits, sustainability, and environmental stewardship.

This grant will make it possible for our students to create and enjoy a beautiful and educationally rich outdoor space.

Maurice Sendak Community School, PS 118

Principal Garraway is excited to incorporate it into the curriculum year-round in areas of healthy living, science and community service.This Greenhouse & Learning Garden will not only be a learning center for the students but will also be an anchor of 4th Avenue as it grows into being the Park Avenue of Brooklyn. The artistic value of the Greenhouse & Learning Garden will certainly be an asset to the community.

Briarcliff Elementary

This garden is a grand adventure for us. We are looking forward to using this garden to teach our children responsibility, community, and healthy choices. While we are not planning at this time to take the garden to salad bar route, this opportunity will allow children to experience creating a garden and growing food that will help them learn to make better choices for a healthy lifestyle. Because of our intention to use the food as part of a food bank, the children will experience the joy of helping others. We have a very close knit community next door to the school.

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