Garden Classrooms

Perryville High School

In this small, rural community, nutritious fruits and vegetables are not included in the diets of many children and families due to the excessive poverty in this area along with the lack of education about healthy lifestyles.

John B. Monlux Elementary

The Monlux community, consisting of parents and teachers together, believes that a garden is an outdoor classroom where we can share valuable life lessons with our future. It is a tool that will help us build a stronger community. We live in a densely urban area where it is easy to lose our inherent connection to the earth. We will be growing and preparing our own food utilizing sustainable methods, with the hopes of sharing some of it with our cafeteria and those in need.

Maya Lin Elementary School

Maya Lin is an arts integrated, inquiry-based public magnet school that allows students the freedom to explore beyond the standards-based curriculum. In a safe, nurturing environment we foster smart, critical thinking kids who love art and know they can do anything. Our Mission is to embrace 21st century learning and the involvement of our community in building a dynamic school environment. We are a title one school serving students from a diverse range of backgrounds. 

Mittineague School

Working in our garden helps to build an awareness and appreciation for our community and environment as well as helps to develop a sense of self and accomplishment.

Bayview Elementary School

The goal of the Bayview Community Garden is to first and foremost, to enhance student learning through a hands-on experience. The garden provides the opportunity to move the focus from simply consuming produce, to planning, creating and cultivating it in a collaborative method. It allows students to interact fully in and with their physical environment outside the classroom integrating curriculum. Students will be able to explore and incorporated more vegetables in their diet through tasting and trying.

Washington Elementary

School gardens are a wonderful way to use gardening time as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agricultural concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects such as math, science, art, health and physical education while encouraging an understanding of personal and social responsibility. This project will promote healthy lifestyle skills while relating educational goals to the common core and relevant elementary school curriculum.

Mexico Middle School

Our main goal is to provide fresh vegetables for our school, both to supplement our lunch program as well as classroom tastings. The second goal is to provide education about healthy eating, sustainable farming, and the value of home-grown food. A third goal is that students will benefit in personal/social ways: to reap the rewards of seeing a product from their own work, to learn to work together, and to give back to the community. Since we have not had a garden before now, we are in need of tools and materials to start our program from scratch.

McKinley Elementary School

The goals of the garden consist of creating an environment where students and communities can leaned and work together. The focus of the garden will be (a) educating children of how plants grow (b) knowing the importance of growing foods and vegetables, (c) having an environment where the children can have actual hands -on experience of creating and developing a successful school garden.

This grant will allow us to purchase the materials needed to create a garden, provide an educational opportunity for children while fostering an atmosphere of positive socialization.

Mary Ford Elementary School

We know that healthy students learn better. Unfortunately, our students are missing the connection that good nutrition is essential for good health and good health is essential for performing your best. Our garden will provide a concrete way to reinforce this message with the students. We will cook with the produce we harvest. Our produce will be used in the after-school class cooking class that is sponsored by the Low-country Food Bank. We will also supplement the food that families receive from the Food Bank.

Lynn English High School

1) To convert an unused courtyard space which is currently a dumping ground for soccer goals, windblown trash, leaves, etc into a vibrant, green space highlighting the visual attractiveness of urban gardens.

2) To model for our school's learning community the importance and simplicity of growing tasty, nutritious vegetables.

3) To grow a variety of relatively low-maintenance, high yield vegetables which will be harvested and served in our school's cafeteria to augment our "Healthy Lifestyles" campaign.

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