Garden Classrooms

Community Transition Program

Our school garden goal is to change our students

Sayre High School

The goal of the Sayre Garden project is to promote access to healthy foods in low-income West Philadelphia neighborhoods surrounding the school. We believe that healthy, nourishing food is a basic building block of healthy communities and that schools can play a leading role in community health promotion. A grant from the Whole Kids Foundation will allow Sayre High School to develop a new and innovative food distribution program to supplement our existing weekly schoolyard youth farm stand.

Peck Elementary

Peck Elementary Garden Goal

Coral Way K-8 Center

Our proposed garden project is a partnership between the United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education (the Center) and Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center. This represents a partnership between a nonprofit early education center and a public K-8 school. School gardens will be used to connect these neighboring organizations in our community.

The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers

This grant will make cooking with veggies possible during our Spring & Summer Gardening Internship Program.

In order for students to learn how to cook fresh and nutritional meals, UAGC needs funding to purchase ingredients (fruits, vegetables, seasonings, etc.) that can't be harvested from the garden (this will be the case until late June). Seeds, plants, & dirt will also be purchased & planted in the spring so students can harvest and cook during the Summer Gardening Internship Program using food they grow.

Forbes School

Currently our district is creating a new health and wellness policy, with a heavy focus on fitness and nutrition education in the classrooms. The goal of this garden would be to produce

Timothy Murphy School

We have several goals for our garden this year and in the years to come. The first goal is to provide an opportunity for our students to learn about gardening, the cycles of plant life, how to grow healthy, organic food and develop a sense of accomplishment that so many of our students have never experienced. Students will learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the food they grow. The garden will also provide fruit and vegetables for the students to take home and share with their families.

TH Rogers Elementary

TH Rogers has integrated the habitats and gardens into the schools curricula. The accessible gardens are used by our culturally diverse, gifted and talented, profoundly deaf, and multiply impaired students. Our goal is to increase our students access by providing adaptive tools to our multiply impaired students, build a greenhouse to allow year-round gardening activities accessible to all, introduce healthy, ethnically diverse, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables to our students.

The Rice School

The habitat is envisioned as a place for students to interact with nature and learn in the process. In a busy urban city the opportunity for students to learn naturally is limited. This is intensified by the fact that as a magnet school, all of the students spend a portion of the day being transported to and from the school. Many come from neighborhoods that prevent them from getting outside and playing after school.

THE GREEN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE

Since moving into our new school building three years ago, we have been in the process of developing our schoolyard to support the school's mission of improving student achievement and increasing stewardship for the environment through experiential environmental education. This work has resulted in the creation of two garden areas - our Organic Teaching Garden and our Pollinator Garden, both of which serve as outdoor classrooms and support our Investigations curriculum.

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