Garden Classrooms

Newport Mill Middle

Our goal is to develop an interactive outdoor garden that will provide: a meaningful nutritional education for our students with the outcome of encouraging more healthful food choices and healthful habits, a space for students to develop a connection to nature, a focus on building an environmental stewardship ethic , as well as an increased appreciation of certain academic disciplines.

The Leake & Watts Biondi School

The Leake & Watts and Food Bank for Westchester Youth Gardening Program maintains two gardens at Leake & Watts

Texas School for the Deaf

Our goal is to involve our students in learning the lifetime love of gardening, the environmental impact and the

Jeffrey Trail Middle School

1. Goal: To establish student and community interest about the benefits of growing their own fruits and vegetables (i.e. environmental stewardship, improved nutrition, teamwork, and community cohesiveness).
a. Objective: Develop a garden space for students and community members to gain exposure to growing fruits and vegetables.
b. Objective: Cultivate partnerships with businesses and area residents to build community cohesiveness and a joint vision of health and well-being through gardening.

Polaris K-12

Our goal for the garden is to make it an aesthetically exciting and interactive extension to the classroom. We want to add apple trees and honey bees to provide a more interactive garden. Over the years, our students, teachers, and parents have slowly added to the garden. We want to ultimately expand our greenhouse and grow food year-round which would be served in the lunchroom. Our greenhouse would be heated and large enough for a class to be inside working comfortably.

MUSE School

Our garden has two main goals. The first is to educate and inspire our students to grow food and embrace a healthy lifestyle through proper nutrition. The second is to act as a resource for our community by providing access to free vegetables and knowledge to grow gardens. Our resident expert will teach and inspire our students to grow their own food. This will all be done with education intentionally built in to each step of the project. Building and supporting community is key to the success of our program.

Village Charter School

Our goal is to provide a fun and engaging outdoor space for students to learn about gardening, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and cooking, through hands-on activities. The garden is used as a learning laboratory, where we use every opportunity we have to help students understand where their food comes from and why it is so important for us to protect our environment and our bodies by choosing healthy foods. This grant will allow us to expand upon our current curriculum of garden education by creating a formal nutrition and cooking component.

Chattahoochee Elementary School

CES's goal is to develop a vegetable garden that can be utilized by students, faculty and staff; along with lunchroom presentation. We currently have an aesthetically pleasing garden, but our desire is to make it a true teaching garden where the community can benefit from its bounty and the children learn the importance of sustainability, health & nutrition, along with their standards for science, math, reading, and other curriculum introduced through the program.

Howard Drive Elementary

I am trying desperately to make a difference in as many children and community members as possible and share about a healthy lifestyle and how important it is for our minds and body. With other teachers at my school we are trying to teach the community how to eat healthier. By growing our own fruits and vegetables, excites the children. If we excite the children, they excite their parents. Recently, I had a discussion with one of our classes about growing a garden and they were already asking if we could have different salad dressings when we finally make our salad.

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