Garden Classrooms

Pomaika'i Elementary School

Our goal is to create a sustainable outdoor classroom where the children can explore, witness and participate in endless oppertunities to learn about ecology, Hawaiian culture, nutrition and mutuial respect for each other, oneself and the natural world, among many other diciplines. We aspire to create a space that lends itself to all grade levels and all teaching styles. We aim to foster the enthusiasm the children demostrate by asking to participate in the school garden club and not have to limit their desires to participate due to space.

Nashville International Academy

Plant the Seed (PTS) creates outdoor classrooms in school gardens to educate and empower under-resourced young people

North Pitt High School

At North Pitt we have re-launched our Agriculture Program which will use this garden as an interactive, hands-on, and outdoor active classroom.

Using this garden our students will be introduced to various levels of the agricultural sciences curriculum as well as learn a healthy skill that will serve them for years ahead.

A Philip Randolph Career & Technical High School

A.P. Randolph is a public vocational school that strives to educate a generation of young Philadelphians with skills vital to our cities development. We are located in the heart of North-Central Philadelphia, a food-desert with some of the nations highest rates of diabetes, obesity, and malnutrition. These conditions are omnipresent in our student population, which is why we are dedicated to providing them with hands-on experiences with local, organic food production as a means of sustainable development.

Pearl Ridge Elementary

Our garden goals are:

(1) to educate and empower students and staff to take action on issues of hunger in their community while working with other students and organizations

(2) to apply problem solving skills in the planning, cultivation, harvest and distribution of crops

(3) to create a collective sharing of learning experiences about the garden (students teaching and learning from students and as well as community organization, staff, and family)

Melrose Elementary School

Melrose Elementary School contains the highest rate of free and reduced lunch students in Pinellas County Schools. It is also constructed atop a brownfield location capping a former hazardous waste site. Our goal is to construct a state-of-the-art modified huegelkultur raised beds with a surplus water retention, recycling, or off-site disposal system. A grant of $2,000 will help to pay for two-fifths of the materials costs of the beds and water management system. Combined with existing donations we will have enough funding to begin construction this year.

Campbell Park Elementary

In January 2103 we will be constructing a medium-sized modified garden in the Campbell Park Elementary Schoolyard. A generous grant from the Rays Baseball Foundation allows us to create the basic infrastructure. A grant from the WholeKids Foundation would allow us to fulfill our goal of completing the garden amenities including the installation of a water-conserving drip irrigation system, install a formal seating and education area, and establish an edible native plant garden associated with the vegetable garden.

Patriot Learning Center

Our garden's goal is to increase yearly produce that provides for our Culinary Arts program and provides for the yearly Thanksgiving Feast. The yearly Thanksgiving Feast is part of our community service curriculum that provides lunch for our senior citizens within the community. This teaches our students social responsibility, maintenance, and duties when caring for the garden. This grant provides agricultural opportunities, graduation credit, and career/technical education.

This program is supported by .

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