Garden Classrooms

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.

Allamanda Elementary School

If our school is granted these funds, we can be self sustaining by purchasing tools and equipment to build simple structures needed in the garden/nature area such as garden beds, an observatory for a fruit tree area, in ground tool box, a garden fence and a greenhouse/ plant nursery. We will be purchasing child size garden gloves for the entire student body. We can also offer garden nursery materials for students to use, books and gardening guides for use by all classes during the health and wellness wheel to address student Q and A

Oak Hill Elementary School

Oak Hill Elementary's garden goals are to introduce gardening into the student culture to employ better health and a sense of community and pride for our gardening program. We hope that by expanding the students' knowledgeable it will encourage them to make healthier choices for the future. We would like to provide all students with the opportunity to garden and learn about ecology, botany, and how gardening can be used in other areas of their education like math and social studies.

Marshall Early Learning Center

The goal of the garden/outdoor classroom is for students to learn how to design, plant, care for, and harvest an organic fruit and vegetable garden. The space will have a weekly classroom rotation schedule, curriculum integration support, food service goals, and endless learning opportunities. This grant will make a regular harvest possible that will be used in our school lunch program to promote healthy choices and foster a connection to the food students eat.

Barlow Mountain Elementary School

Barlow Mountain Elementary School's garden serves as an organic Outdoor Classroom that supplements and enhances the curriculum, as well as producing fruits, vegetables and herbs to the BMES community promoting a relationship with nature and healthy living. The Outdoor Classroom encompasses the goals and support of the teachers, staff, administration, students, parents and greater community to ensure that it also serves to build the community. We have plans to extend the garden beyond our current operations, by installing a nature path around our school.

Henry C Sanborn Elementary

The Sanborn School garden is a new addition to a community that excels at providing enrichment to the lives of its children. Started 2012 with just a few parents and some very excited 4th and 5th graders, the garden seeks to be a place where children can be an active part of learning process outside the classroom. A garden is a welcoming place for children of all ages and abilities offering every student the opportunity to be a part of it's growth during some point of their elementary school career if they so wish.

KIPP Central City Academy

KIPP Central City Academy is located at the heart of Central City, a neighborhood of New Orleans that has been historically plagued by violence and poor health across a number of factors. Our garden program was devised as a means to enliven and unite the local community to take their health in to their own hands. The mission of the garden is twofold: Firstly, to provide a therapeutic outlet and recreation for Central City youth to channel after school time in to productive and character building ventures.

J.A. Coles Elementary

Our goal is to continue growing the garden we currently have. We would like to expand the greenhouse we built last year by doubling the amount of seedlings we grow there. The vegetable garden, as it stands now, is only being taken care of by the first grade classes. We would like to expand this to at least another grade, perhaps the second and/or third grade classes. This would require creating additional vegetable beds and using the added greenhouse space to start the vegetable plants.

Northeast School

This grant will assist with the educational center within the four-acre market garden being developed. Funds will be used to purchase seeds, hoes, shovels, etc. The goals for the educational center would be to educate students on healthy lifestyles and ways to prepare fresh items. We also will provide training to individuals interested in pursuing community employment or entrepreneurial businesses that would include marketing skills so they will understand the connection between growing local health food and the financial benefits.

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