Garden Classrooms

High School of Commerce

We see this garden as having the potential to transform our school culture and add a myriad of learning experiences to our courses. A goal for all of the teachers involved is to use the garden to teach about nutrition and healthy eating. Our students often haven

Blessed Sacrament Catholic School

The goal is to integrate gardening into all classrooms across the curriculum including teaching about organic & heirloom vegetables. Another goal of the coordinator is to make the garden self-sustaining. During this 2nd year, we would like to see a mulching program begin, use of 3-bin compost system to use cafeteria waste, worm bins added, and most importantly to expand the garden from its current 40'x10' section to almost double in size, 80' x 15'. Eventually, we would like to add a mini greenhouse to the campus.

Open Classroom

The goal of the garden at the Open Classroom is to involve children in an experience of growing and harvesting food, to teach and enrich the students, provide interest to the surrounding community and support the school's mission of whole child enrichment.

Sugarland Elementary School

This garden has many goals; community building, environmental awareness, healthy eating, as well as outdoor activity and education. The garden offers the students of Sugarland Elementary a safe environment where they can be excited about learning in new and different ways about so much more than is contained in a regular curriculum. The garden will also offer students in this Title 1 school, a window into health, that they may not have access to otherwise, the kind of opportunity that will change the course of a students life.

Almond-Bancroft School

The goal of Almond-Bancroft's school garden is to combine education of sustainable practices with a service learning environment for bettering the education of our rural community. Many families in our district are impacted by the agriculture industry, but don't have the knowledge and tools to make good choices when it comes to their production or consumption of agriculture. We are hoping to help families make nutritional choices while helping the school teach a new generation of farmers.

Margaret Mead Jr. High

Our overall gardening goal is to provide fresh vegetables and herbs for families in need that visit our school's food pantry. Families that have difficulties making ends meet or cannot afford to put a meal on their tables, from our district, are referred to our food pantry. Our pantry is stocked with healthy choices that have been donated locally within our community, other schools within our districts (a total of 27 schools) and/or donations from local grocery stores.

Frostwood Elementary

The Goal of the Frostwood Elementary Vegetable Garden/Outdoor Learning Classroom is to provide staff and students (Kindergarten to 5th Grade) with the opportunity for hands-on learning in the garden that complements learning in subject areas such as Math, Science, Health and Nutrition, Art, Social Studies, etc. through enhanced curriculum experiences. Experiential learning in a garden and outdoor classroom will enhance student academic performance, while teaching life-long lessons about the importance of nutrition and health.

Rosedale Middle School

Although Rosedale Middle School is located in a rich agricultural area, many of our students have no idea of the importance our geographical area has as a food supplier for our region and the world. Many students have no idea how food is grown or gets to their local market. We want to change this! We feel a garden is a way to teach students good stewardship of our earth, and give them a sense of ownership and responsibility. Additionally, we feel our school garden will help our students learn more about healthy lifestyles, as they discover

Cumming Elementary

Our goal this year is to enhance our gardens to provide food for community food banks and to feed students in our school cafeteria. We plant and harvest vegetables year round; however, we want to increase our offerings by planting a strawberry bed, blueberry, thornless blackberry, and raspberry bushes; and several fruit trees. The Whole Foods grant will be used to fund this portion of our gardens.

Stetson School

We have established three primary goals: - Teach students about sustainable practices and the importance of sustainability and our food system. - Provide staff the opportunity to purchase fresh, organic produce, and to provide our cafeteria and classrooms with the same for free as supplies allow. - To show students that great things can be accomplished through hard work.

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