Garden Classrooms

Charles Ellis Montessori Academy

Our goal is to increase knowledge of whole foods for as many people as possible through our school gardens. We believe that providing this knowledge could lead to life-altering changes throughout the separate communities that make up Savannah. A vibrant school garden would allow us to introduce children to fresh produce that they may not have seen before, as well as teach them how to grow that produce in the urban setting in which they live. It would open the door to conversations about health.

Parish Episcopal School

The garden will become a community focal point, uniting parent volunteers, teachers, and students in tending to a living space together. At Parish, the Beasley STEM Center and Fleeger Family Learning Kitchen already set Parish apart nationally as a school with designated space to promote hands-on learning which equips students with the enduring skills as thinkers, collaborators, creators and communicators which they will need in order to be life-ready in a rapidly changing world. We know the addition of our outdoor garden will further enrich the learning experiences afforded our students.

Elbridge Gale Elementary School

After a hugely successful Gators Going Green Phase 1 Garden Event on Green Apple Day, we are planning our phase 2 projects. With the Whole Kids Foundation funding, we will add 5 floating hydroponic gardens, 10 Verti-Gro hydroponic units, create/enhance native butterfly gardens, and plant native fruit/shade trees. These gardens, trees and plants will be enjoyed by all students, teachers and community members. We want to ensure that our courtyard garden areas are utilized to their maximum potential.

Fellowship Christian Academy

We are a 100 percent minority school in an urban area. We have a small patch of land near our school that is suitable for a garden. We want to raise crops to contribute to the local food pantry and also to introduce our students and their parents to whole and fresh foods and whole and fresh food preparation. We will utilize part of our harvest for education and part of our harvest to contribute to the food pantry.

Combs Elementary

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A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary integrates the philosophies of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People into a model replicated at 1400+ schools worldwide. The model will be leveraged as students design, plant and teach other students in the garden.

Great Oaks Charter School

The overall mission of the garden is for Great Oaks middle school students to gain an understanding of and exposure to how food grows. Through visibility and use of the garden across several classes and topics, we hope to increase the students' willingness to eat fruits and vegetables grown in the garden by 25% over the growing season.

Michigan Islamic Academy

The goal of our school garden is to help our students become excited about growing and eating locally grown food from organic sources. We are very committed to encouraging our students to adopt healthy eating habits, which we hope the grant will enable us to do by making it possible for us to grow our own vegetables. We also hope to foster the notion of responsibility in our younger students, as we intend to have each elementary classroom be responsible for their own section of the garden. Our plan is to integrate our gardens into the classroom.

Laurens District 55 High School

We have two ultimate goals with our gardening program. First we would like to be able to produce enough fresh and healthy vegetables to sale to our school cafeteria. Secondly we would to use the garden as an educational garden to teach those at our school, other schools, and in our community about raised bed gardening. We will work with our feeder schools to teach students and teachers about raising vegetables in raised bed so that they can start beds at their school.

Monroe-Woodbury Middle School

We have several goals for the Crusader Garden spring 2014. (1) The Sensory Garden. A stone planting area converted into a place that stimulates all the senses. Whole Foods monies will provide the plants needed to create a calming yet stimulating space for students to utilize.

(2)Handicap planting bed: Planting bed on stilts for wheelchair/ walker bound students to develop as planting space. Materials needed for construction will be obtained from this grant.

Tavares Middle School

My goal for our garden is to increase my students with autism spectrum disorders and/or intellectual disabilities as independence as possible. While increasing the students' independence, the students will also learn agricultural skills for future employment, life skills,social skills, and science about plants. The students will harvest the fruits and vegetables they grow and use them for cooking lessons. Another goal for the garden is to provide fruits and vegetables for our school's cafeteria.

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