Garden Classrooms

Oakland International High School

By increasing access to urban garden space and physical activities for historically underserved, low-income families, the proposed project will address a variety of issues affecting communities -- not the least of which are a lack of opportunities for physical activity that is incorporated into families̢

Green Chimneys School

We plan to continue to enhance our two organic gardens and greenhouse to ensure an innovative learning environment for more than 250 special needs students and a pioneering training site for the thousands of visitors whom visit each year interested in replicating our therapeutic gardening program. New York State educational standards are met through our individualized year-round curriculum which includes certified horticultural therapy, seed propagation, harvesting, plant anatomy and maintenance, food storage, canning, farm machinery, tool usage, naturopathy, aromatherapy and composting.

Ferguson-Easley Elementary

Our goal is to raise school pride. We are located in a district with a few a challenges. Many of our students have never had experience raising something from a seed and feeling good about watching a product grow...about nurturing a product. In fact, nurturing is what they get here at our school. In many cases it was our Title I school personnel that introduced the concept of nurturing to our elementary students. Our goal is to show how a person can work hard and feed themselves as a result of their work efforts and with any luck can feed others too.

Benjamin G.Brown School

Built in 2007, the Benjamin Brown garden is in an actively used part of the school yard beneath a tree, once a sapling, that has now grown to shade much of the area. The donated materials included untreated cedar boards, which have decomposed gradually and are now falling apart. This grant will allow us to redesign the layout of the garden to accommodate the new shade areas and the active walkways, as well as replace the broken beds with long-term, sustainable alternatives.

St. Martin's Episcopal School

The goal of the St. Martin's Community Garden is to involve students in an outdoor classroom setting in order to teach them the hands-on process of sustainable agriculture. The Community Garden Program is designed to teach students about and involve them in the practice of sustainable agriculture in order for them to gain a deeper appreciation for and understanding of the vital role these processes play in our daily lives. The purpose of the GardenSoxx is to make the garden relatively maintenance free, so that the students may spend more time learning about and nurturing their plants.

Hope Leadership Academy Charter School

Our garden's goal is to give our students the opportunity and responsibility to grow, maintain, harvest and enjoy their very own foods! Our students will be able to see the growth cycle, learn about garden care, cook and enjoy the produce from our school's garden. This grant will make it possible for our students to have first-time, hands-on experience with gardening. All of our students come from socioeconomically challenged households, many of whom only have the opportunity to eat breakfast at lunch because they are at school.

North Valley Academy Charter

North Valley Academy (NVA) Charter School has a focus on health and wellness. The goals for NVA that are connected to the school gardens are to revitalize the campus gardens, use them as outdoor classrooms, sell harvested produce and flowers, and establish ourselves in the community as leaders in health and wellness. The gardens encourage and support the mission and vision of the school. Kindergarten through eight grade teachers will use the gardens to teach about plant life and the plant cycle based on the NextGen Science and New Mexico Science Standards.

Ronald E. McNair Elementary

We would like to build on the application of the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) in the garden. This grant would give our students hands-on experiences to reinforce learning in the classroom. We would use this grant as an after-school opportunity for enrichment and instruction. There would be a garden club for grades 3-5 which would meet twice a week. There would also be a garden club for parents and PreK-2nd grade students which would meet once a week.

Talahi Community School

As part of new STEM curriculum for our school we see as our garden goal on the following:
To create a school garden that will become learning laboratory for students as they pursue a number of plant projects. This is especially true in the second and fourth grades where students have major units on growing a number of different plants
This garden project is a further extension of the reading garden that Talahi is undertaking this year. Through a grant from Lowe

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