Garden Classrooms

Nottoway Middle School

The goals include beautifying a blank landscape with garden boxes, providing fresh produce for the students to taste, the enrichment of the educational experience by supplying a hands-on, project-based learning environment, to include the surrounding community by scheduling speakers and input from area businesses, involving our cafeteria/food staff for additional nutritional data, and planting perennials that will provide years of sustainable garden plants.

Nut Swamp Elementary School

The goal of the Nut Swamp Elementary School Garden is help students learn about the relationship between healthy food, healthy bodies and a healthy Earth and to provide a place for the students to learn where real, whole food comes from. The grant will enable us to build a larger garden to accommodate our nearly 600 hundred students. The additional space will allow each grade level an area to create their own garden and grow their own vegetables and herbs.

Meeting Street Academy

As part of a non profit dedicated to creating a thriving local food system, education and demonstration about how food gets from 'seed to table' is an extremely important lesson. The garden at GrowFood Carolina gives students the opportunity to learn about soil, seeds, plants, and foods. When the student then learns about the activities at the warehouse, they start understand the full cycle of our food system, so they not only appreciate how to grow fresh fruit and veg, but also what to look for in their grocery store.

Bachman Academy

The goal of the Bachman Academy Horticulture/Garden program is to first teach students about sustainability and environmental stewardship. Secondly, the program increases the student's access to fresh produce and knowledge of native plants. Planning what to grow, seed propagation, soil testing, harvesting and more serve as a format to reinforce the traditional subjects of biology, physical science, chemistry and math. Lastly, students get the opportunity to enjoy the intrinsic benefits of gardening.

Thomas Stone High School

Two courtyard gardens and a fruit tree orchard are currently used and maintained within Thomas Stone High School campus. The Senior Courtyard supports five raised garden beds that grow a variety of flowers, vegetables, herbs, and medicinal plants. It contains two themed garden beds: a Korean vegetable garden, and Three Sisters vegetable garden. The courtyard is handicapped accessible, and is used for experimentation and demonstration.

Seneca High

Our goals last year were to build and maintain a garden that would provide opportunities for my students to be active participants in a hands-on, across-the-curriculum project which embraced science, health, nutrition, home economics, agriculture and independent living skills to name a few. Also, included in our goals was the plan to use the garden as an avenue for demonstrating good citizenship and service to others by providing food for local soup kitchens.

LifeWorks NW Adolescent Day Treatment Program

The Adolescent Day Treatment Program advocates for and serves adolescents and their families throughout the Portland metro area and rural areas as well. Each day we provide schooling and mental health treatment for 25-32 children and their families in Tigard, Oregon. Our garden goals include curriculum integration, horticultural therapy, nutrition focused lunch program, and community outreach to teach nutrition and sustainability. Our garden and lunch groups are supported by a hands-on learning process focusing on food and our relationship to it.

Renaissance Middle Charter School

We would like to enhance the knowledge and understanding of herbs, vegetables and pollinating plants so our students could learn how to maintain their gardens, utilize their nutrient values and begin a healthier lifestyle. Using the vegetation of our gardens our students will be involved in food preparation challenges. They will make recipe books including the top 15 recipes and distributing the recipe book to all our students and staff to enjoy with their families.

Jesse Sherwood Elementary

The goal of the garden at Sherwood School would be to engage the students in learning opportunities utilizing the garden. The garden will also be used to engage the parents, students and the community in order to create a strong bond as they plant and grow vegetables and flowers. Our primary goal is to increase students' understanding of and respect for nature. We would also like our students and the community to have a place where they can investigate, plan and nurture a garden. We envision a place that is designed, used and maintained by the children and the community.

Village Leadership Academy

Our edible garden allows students to grow their own food and learn about healthy and sustainable eating. Our after school cooking and gardening program and our hands on science program utilize the garden for both educational and practical purposes. The students cook with the food in the 10 garden boxes every week. Students are also encouraged to take some of the fresh vegetables and herbs home to share with their families. Our school

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