Garden Classrooms

Shepherd Valley Waldorf School

Since moving to a 38-acre campus in 2001, Shepherd Valley Waldorf School has consistently incorporated gardening and exploration of nature in the curriculum of every grade, pre-K - 8th. However, two years ago the school's gardening efforts got a big boost from a new collaboration with Everybody Eats!, a local non-profit committed to expanding Boulder County's supply of organically, locally and sustainably grown produce.

Sherburne Elementary School

Our gardening project hopes to add a greenhouse, bear resistant composter, tools, hoses and additional raised garden beds to the present garden consisting of four raised beds. Our physical mission is to eventually provide our school lunch program and school community with fresh produce year around and share surplus with our students

Suwa'lkh Learning Center

Our goal for our garden is to provide an interactive outdoor green space that our students, teachers and community partners can learn and develop gardening skills. We would like to develop an outdoor classroom into our green space as well. Teachers will be able to incorporate curriculum based learning that they can teach in the outdoor classroom space. Students will be given a plot each that they can use with their families to grow their own produce. There will also be a general gardening space that will be managed in a communal way.

Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center

For over 75 years, Schreiber Pediatric has provided family centered education and therapy program for infants, children and adolescents with developmental delays and disabilities in the Lancaster County area. Our goal-oriented approach maximizes each child's ability to function as independently as possible within the community. Our gardens serve as an innovative therapy tool for the thousands of clients that we see each year.

This grant will allow Schreiber to get more tools, plants and features to expand our garden and allow for further client involvement

Cranbrook Schools

The goal of the garden is to keep HUB and Cranbrook students communally engaged. The process of tending the garden is a metaphor for HUB's overall goal: to provide a comprehensive summer and academic year program that prepares low-income, first-generation college students in skills that will allow them to succeed in secondary and post-secondary education. The care and nourishment the students put into the garden is the same type of dedication that the program gives to them.

This program is supported by .

Malcolm X

Project Outline:

Under the supervision and direction of Rivka Mason, the Malcolm X garden instructor and teacher, we propose to engage in a program to encourage children to eat nutritious vegetables that they grow themselves. In her interaction with the children at Malcolm X, Rivka has noted that children loved to eat dino kale and also sour sorrel. She found that they especially liked these vegetables insofar as they had helped to grow it in the school garden.

Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary

Our immediate goal is to enhance our currently-functional youth garden. Our garden currently has one vegetable bed available for each teacher who has requested one (8), and one community bed, which is tended to and harvested by volunteers. These beds are thriving and well-maintained, and we are ready to expand!

Sandia Prep School

This grant will provide funding for a new summer garden program, which will help to raise awareness in the community about the benefits of growing and eating locally. The class,

Spreckels Elementary

Our garden program's goal is to expand our existing growing space by utilizing a green house in conjunction with our existing garden. We currently have a small area utilized by raised planter beds and we recently planted an orchard of seven young fruit trees. If we are awarded this grant we would purchase a greenhouse and place it near the existing garden spaces. Our garden is in a mild climate zone which limits certain crops' growing seasons. Using the greenhouse will allow us to start seeds indoors and extend our growing season.

Language Academy

Led by unpaid parent volunteers, Language Academy’s garden program started with a mission to engage students and teachers by inspiring students to respect nature and learn where food comes from. Each class, K-5th, visits the garden for grade-specific lessons. Classes spend an hour, rotating through a Science/gardening lesson, nature play and hands-on nutrition ecology. We create our own curriculum using California FOSS standards as often as possible. This year our garden program will teach 30 classes of more than 775 students. Our school is Title One school with 1,000+ students, K-8th.

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