Garden Classrooms

Ventura High School

The goal for this project at Ventura High School is to provide an outdoor learning space for all students. The space will be separated into four distinct areas. The first one will be an open space with picnic tables for an entire class to use during a class period. Next to this classroom space, there will be a demonstration area where students will be able to create structures out of sand.

Van Buren Elementary

The goal for our garden is to use it as a learning experience for students in our elementary school and high school as well as an opportunity for community members to work side-by-side with our students and staff. Students will directly observe the life cycle of plants from seed to vegetable. Planting would take place in late fall and early spring, when school is in session. Raised beds provide a healthier environment for beneficial microorganisms and earthworms because there's no foot traffic to compact the soil.

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.

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