Garden Classrooms

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.

P.S 007 Samuel Stern

The garden at P.S 7 is managed and funded by Edible Schoolyard NYC. The goal of the garden at P.S. 7is to provide an organic, four-season growing space and outdoor classroom on school grounds where ESYNYC staff can teach an interdisciplinary curriculum; provide programming for students, families and community members; and train teachers and principals throughout New York City.

Wilshire Crest Elementary School

Wilshire Crest Elementary garden goal is to support an interdisciplinary experience of education through garden based learning in the outdoor living classroom. The garden provides economically disadvantage kids a chance to excell with hands on learning as an extension of classroom curricuplum in an outdoor classroom setting. Our student body are local students, with over 80% participating in the free and reduced lunch program. The project reinforces good eating habits from seed to table program as well as environmental stewardship.

windermere elementary school

The goal of the garden is to provide our school and community with an outdoor classroom / organic garden as an avenue to endless learning opportunities for children and adults alike. To learn about sustainable living and the importance of preserving the environment. Teaching everyone to take ownership of their health by understanding and promoting healthy eating habits thru the use of the garden crops in cooking classes and allowing them to participate in making their own food and tasting the results of their hard work.

Eisenhower Elementary

Eisenhower Elementary currently has no outdoor learning space. To bring the classroom outside, we plan to create a series of raised beds and a pollinator garden in a 300-square-foot vacant location between the school's main entrance and the playground.

Horseshoe Trails Elementary

The goal for the Horseshoe Trails garden is for all students to have an opportunity to experience gardening. For many of our students, this will be their first gardening experience and we hope to ignite a passion for future gardeners. We'd also like to encourage teachers to utilize the garden as a tool for scientific and multi-disciplinary learning. John Muir said, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he find it attached to the rest of the world." We believe the garden can be used to teach virtually any subject in a hands-on, meaningful way.

Andrew Jackson School

We are engaged in a multi-staged project to develop an innovative "green" curriculum that will not only be a vehicle for academic excellence for our school, but a low-cost model for other under-resourced public schools in Philadelphia. This garden will be a resource for hands-on learning that will engage and inspire our students to master testable skills in order to engage with deeper learning. Our garden will be a special place, where our students will grow plants they can eat.

John F. Kennedy Magnet School

The $2,000 will help us run the expansion of our JFK Garden after school project, as we started our program last year with 24 3rd graders. This year they are 4th graders. We have created a new curriculum for this cohort and will begin fall planting next week, along with recitation. In the Spring we will bring in a whole new cohort of 24 3rd graders, thus doubling the size of this project. The $2,000 will support our expansion.

PS 150 Tribeca Learning Center

Since PS 150 began in 1987, students, staff, and families have been brainstorming ways to grow their own food. The location of the school is on a concrete plaza, two stories up from the ground. The school shares the plaza with area residents and does not own a plot of land to use for growing food for students. Furthermore, it is possible that the school will be forced to relocate in several years. Thus, an indoor hydroponic system could move with us if this transition occurs. We hope to install two small hydroponic gardens in the Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms.

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