Garden Classrooms

ACE Charter School

ACE Charter School believes that learning should take place wherever you are, and that being conscious of the world around you is vital to education. Our Garden Program has successfully given our students an opportunity to understand their relationship to food: where it comes from and how it benefits us. Now, we'd like to take this to the next level and bring our harvest from our established garden to the table. We would like the children to know the joy of growing, preparing, cooking and eating their own food.

PS 84, The Lillian Weber School for the Arts

Our Garden, Urban Roots was born in 2010, when we started a pilot program for 3-5th graders to plant vegetables on an unused rooftop courtyard space. Last year, Urban Roots expanded to the full 5 grades, and a basic curriculum was written to incorporate Science Core Curriculum for each grade. Our next goal, The Vertical Garden, will expand our existing 132 sq ft by adding 144 sq ft of vertical growing space, ideal for city agriculture.

Zamora Elementary

Our goal is to re-establish an abandoned garden at Zamora - a garden that connects students with classroom learning, healthy food, and an understanding of how good food is produced. We have a promising beginning with 20 existing raised beds, water access, and students who want to join the

Hartman Public School

What is unique about our initiative is that includes the creation of two gardens on two different school properties. Our main goals are to build positive connections with both community members and our environment. Our schools are situated in a fast growing suburban area and it is very multicultural. This year, our new community has also been separated by school boundaries. These gardens will be a vehicle to establish positive community ties. Our second goal stems from the fact that our neighborhood has farmer

Ridge Hill School

The Goal for the Discovery Garden at Ridge Hill School is to provide a learning environment where students, families, teachers and community members can learn about gardening concepts, nutrition and health, learn about healthy lifestyles and eat nutritious food right from the Discovery Garden. We envision all students from K-6 participating in the Discovery Garden. We also have set as a goal 40% family participation in this project for 2012-2013. A School can not do this project alone and we need the support in the community to make the Discovery Garden a sustainable reality.

Woolman School

Our garden feeds and educates the students and staff of the Woolman Semester School and promotes our core values of peace, justice, and sustainability via interactions with the wider community. Most of the garden's 7,000 annual pounds of produce are used in our school kitchen; with it, interns, students and staff members cook three meals a day for between twenty and forty people at a time. Administrative staff, teachers, interns, students, and volunteers all help in the garden, learning as they do so how to grow food while caring for the land.

Woodbridge High School

The goal of our garden is to provide our moderate to severe students an opportunity to learn some life skills. This includes the ability to understand the growing process and the necessary elements, how to plant the right plants during the right season, how to care for the plants including tending the soil, how to harvest the food and then lastly how to prepare the food to eat. We have the luxury of having a kitchen area and provide living skills lessons to our students that inlcudes how to care for produce and how to wash it and cook it.

William E. Russell

The Russell School students will advance their understanding of science, technology, mathematics and healthy choices through the creation and maintenance of a school vegetable garden. We believe that our students will have a better understanding of complex topics and how these topics relate to them directly through this project based learning opportunity. Students will be challenged to research, design and implement a school vegetable garden in an low income urban setting. Students will then use the produce to create healthy snacks and meals.

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White's Junior/ Senior High School

Our goal is to involve our "at-risk" youth in the establishment, maintenance, and harvest of a series of gardens. Through this, they will enjoy fresh air and sunshine while learning how to garden. It will provide emotional healing and self-esteem as they watch their garden grow. It will give them opportunity to work with teachers and staff, providing opportunities to talk while working in this informal setting. They will learn about plants and how they grow in relation to achieving healthy, sustainable gardens.

Lawrence W. Pingree Primary School

The goal of our garden is to improve the health of our students, their families, and the community. In 2011 a local study showed that 38 percent of Weymouth students were obese. In light of this, we are promoting exercise and healthy eating, before, during, and after school through 2 grants. We now want to provide children with the hands-on training to plan, start and maintain a garden to foster healthy eating throughout their day and ultimately throughout their lives.

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