Garden Classrooms

Kokhanok School

The goal of the Kokhanok school garden is to create a teaching tool that is both relevant to the kids of an isolated village and that has the power to dramatically increase the quality of life by introducing and supplying fresh vegetables to the community. Village schools struggle to keep kids engaged with a learning system that bases its portrait of society on events, places, and things that have never been experienced by the people of the community.

Litchfield Minnesota Middle School

Our first goal is to get an existing greenhouse at the school up and running. Since being built, the green house area has been too hot to successfully grow plants. Master gardeners, a local CSA farmer, and the owner of the area garden nursery have all made suggestions of ways to correct our greenhouse problems and we are confident with this grant we can purchase the equipment to correct our problems.

L'Ecole Bilingue

Our vision is that the garden be used as a platform to educate children about food literacy. Students can grow food using organic pest control methods, harvest produce, and save seeds. Composting teaches about nutrient cycles. With a cooking program, the children learn proper food prep and use all their senses to discover the goodness of whole foods.

Kahakai Elementary

The Kahakai School Garden program is looking to become an inspiration and a platform for student entrepreneurs. We have begun a program that has students leading weekly harvests that provide real foods for a weekly "Market Day." The students are responsible for growing, picking, washing and selling produce for "Market Day." All proceeds go back into the garden to pay for materials, and our hope is that one day our Garden will be completely self sustainable.

West Jasper Elementary School

The two raised bed boxes at the West Jasper Elementary School were built by several college students at the University of Alabama in hopes of one day growing into a larger garden project. As of right now, the boxes are small and not able to support a sufficient variety of vegetable growth for the number of students participating. It is our hopes, that with this grant we will be able to build larger boxes and provide more of a variety for the children to grow, taste, and learn from.

Jane Edwards Elementary

In the rural and tightly-knit community of Edisto Island, creating and maintaining a school garden is an ideal way to achieve a number of our goals: to increase community involvement; provide hands-on learning experiences; and, produce food that will be shared and enjoyed.

To increase community involvement we will use the garden for collaboration with our partners. Community members see our garden as an important part of enhancing education and can bring their skills and interests to bear on making this a successful.

J. W. Sexsmith Elementary

The long term goal of our garden program is to grow the students understanding that their choices will impact their future and the future of their planet. This understanding will be fostered by the short term goals of how healthy food choices impact their bodies; the joy and art of gardening; growing and preparing healthy food; purchasing locally grown foods support local economies and produce jobs for themselves and their communities; recycling and composting reduce waste and pollution - basically - how to integrate healthy living and sustainability practices into their lifestyles.

Holy Rosary - Wea Catholic School

We have long recognized the many benefits of incorporating a garden into our curriculum at school.

First, we hope to utilize our garden as the centerpoint for our Wellness Plan. It will provide so many hands on opportunities to continue our teaching about healthy eating and physical activity. It will help reinforce our Power Panther program, "Eat Smart, Play Hard" , by involving all of our students in planning, creating, maintaining, and harvesting our garden.

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