Garden Classrooms

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.

Primrose Hill School

The overall goal of the Primrose Hill garden is to teach children how to plant, nurture, grow and harvest vegetables, fruits and herbs.

The children at Primrose Hill Elementary (K-3) have a hands on experience planting the beds, harvesting the produce and tasting different vegetables.

Teachers have the opportunity to hold classes in the garden to expand and enhance their cirriculum.

Beverly Cleary School

The goal of the gardens at Beverly Cleary School is to connect students to nature, support the learning environment of the garden, and build community. As a community we have worked hard to establish our school gardens and involve students throughout many years. As we are having success with this we need to create more spaces in the garden to accommodate all of those who are interested.

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