Garden Classrooms

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 .

Odyssey Academy

Our goal is to establish a raised bed garden for each of our interested students, families and community members. We believe that by engaging our whole community in this project we can improve neighborhood health, relationships, and school-community connections. Funds from this grant will allow us to expand the community garden program we currently have and add more trellises to employ vertical growing techniques, thus allowing us to increase our growing space and our yield. Our goal is to increase our gardens

Riddle Elementary School

Our goals for this garden are the following: 1)Students will demonstrate that they have learned how to plant, grow, harvest, and prepare fruits and vegetables from their school garden. 2)Students will increase the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Lynwood Elementary School

Our garden goal is to create a garden that all the classes in the school could use. Currently we do not have a school garden. We have a space that in the past had been used as a school wide garden but years of neglect and unuse had turned it into a jungle of weeds and garbage. In August 65 parents and students spent a Saturday clearing out the space with the hope that we can make it something special for all students.

This program is supported by Lynwood Elementary School PTA.

N.S.U. Elementary Lab School

We want to maximize the great potential our garden has for learning and fostering full, healthy lives for our children. A chance to teach scientific, environmental studies, plant life cycles, appreciation of food production, and seasonal cycles are objectives made possible through gardening. Additional goals that naturally take place include enrichment of science, math, art, environmental studies, health, and language arts through various garden related units and activities. This garden will continue to provide ongoing exploration to enrich our students

Northwest Elementary School

Northwest Elementary School's "Learn to Grow ~ Grow to Learn" Project involves teaching students' about ecology, biology, responsibility and sustainability.

Our Principal has proposed a three year garden project that incorporates our students, teachers, cafeteria staff, custodial staff, parent association (PTA), dad's club, school district and community organizations and businesses.

High Pointe Elementary

The main garden goal is that students will gain the experience, education, and health benefits relating to planting, tending, and harvesting plants in raised beds and in ground plots at High Pointe Elementary. The grant will help provide topsoil, mulch, soil amendments, and other supplies needed to prepare four already-constructed raised garden beds, 8' x 3' each, for use in spring planting, 2013. In addition, the grant funding will purchase other supplies to use with the four already-existing in ground plant circles located in close proximity to the raised beds.

Southampton Elementary School

Goals: to provide gardens:

1. Where children learn the Virginia Standrds of Learning (SOLs) objectives in a variety of areas.

2. Which develop within children a passion for nature and gardening.

3. Which build ties within the school family (staff, students, and extended families).

4. Which build bonds with neighbors and community groups.

This grant will help us sustain garden operations and activities for one year. It will also enable us to purchase a much needed teaching table suitable for outdoors.

Hunt Elementary

We have been working on a garden project for two years. We currently have 5 garden beds and 2 small green houses for approximately 350 students K-5. Our goal is to maintain the garden area to support 350 students' projects, making sure we have adequate number of gardening supplies to meet the needs of each class. Supplies include but are not limited to: Amends soil, seeds/plants and gardening utensils. We would like to have garden/farming professionals visit and share their ideas and knowlege with the students.

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