Garden Classrooms

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.

Southern Delaware School of the Arts

School Nutrition Agri-Culture (SNAC) transforms the schoolyard into a vibrant outdoor classroom and thriving ecosystem where children and families can get a first-hand experience in growing wholesome food. We improve access to nutritious, affordable food and nutrition education. Our long-term goals are to further develop an integrated Delaware educationd garden-based curriculum for elementary school students. Using a collaborative team approach, the SNAC program director will compile and correlate key curriculum resources and report their usage according to Delaware State Standards.

Lillian C. Ruediger Elementary School

The goal of our garden is to introduce the students into the world of gardening. Since children are kinesthetic learners and love to play, introducing them to gardening will be a great way of increasing their physical activity, increase their knowledge of science, and allows them to be hands-on in nature. The students also get to work together in small groups, learn responsibility, and the garden allows for creativity and a sense of pride when producing fruits and vegetables that they will ultimately get to eat.

School Street School

We have eight raised garden beds. They were built with the help of a Home Depot grant and volunteers. Students have helped tend these gardens since 2008. Every May, we hold a Garden Club on Thursday afternoons from 3:00 - 4:00. Students learn about seeds, soil, worms and companion planting.

The River School

The River School offers an inclusive educational program and clinical services for children with hearing loss. These children experience a language gap and require multi-level exposure to concepts and language to catch up and close this gap with their hearing peers.

Richland Avenue Elementary

Our goal is to increase our number of planting boxes and to add additional seating and table-top working space. Richland has put outdoor gardening and garden-based learning as the focus of our educational and social mission statement. An increased planting area will help us educate each child in the life cycle of food: the planting, tending, harvesting, eating, sharing, and decomposition. An additional picnic table will provide needed seating and work space for outdoor lessons and garden-related work.

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John Muir Charter School

Students in our Leadership Garden program have decided to raise fresh vegetables organically to be distributed three ways.

1. Rancho Cielo

PS 172 Beacon School of Excellence

Our primary goal is to improve and expand the physical and psychological well-being of our community, using the School Garden Project to introduce students to environmental stewardship, community gardening, and sustainability. By creating and taking care of their green space our students will gain confidence, learn about leadership and sustainable living, and practice collaborative skills. The proposed Garden location is a sunroof that is currently vacant and virtually unused by the school population. The location is south facing with 6+ hours of full sunlight daily.

PS 133 William A. Butler School

Our school is under construction, when our school opens in 2013 we will need to move our garden from our current temporary location. All of our plants are in portable planters, which will be easy to transport and also addresses the problem of the soil in our vicinity being contaminated.

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