Garden Classrooms

Lincoln Elementary School

*To provide highly engaging hands-on science education.

*To develop good nutritional habits and understanding of the importance of healthy eating.

*To involve students in service learning by donating a portion of our produce to our local food pantry.

*To teach students the importance of being good stewards of land and natural resources.

*To connect students with their own and each others' cultural backgrounds through food.

Micheltorena Street Elementary School

Our organic garden was built in November 2010, and is equal parts interdisciplinary school environment and community project. The goal of the garden is to teach students and the community about environmental sustainability, urban cooperative living, food justice and healthy lifestyles by simultaneously serving as an experiential, cooperative outdoor classroom during schooltime, and a gathering place for the neighborhood on evenings and weekends.

St. Bedes Catholic School

The Littles Road Community Garden has already completed one successful growing season. Our dedicated team of volunteers helped to plan and implement the garden from the ground up and has been integral in the daily operation of the site. Next year we hope to develop the Malvern Community Greenhouse and Learning Centre which will offer community members and students from surrounding schools the space and opportunity to learn about the growing cycle from seed to harvest.

Galileo

The 765 currently enrolled school children at Galileo STEM School will have an opportunity to participate in the school garden project. Parents, teachers and other family members will also have the opportunity to volunteer and participate with the school vegetable garden.

Medway Middle School

The goal of the Middle School Garden Project is to educate kids about healthy food, how it is grown and community support for the less privileged. The Middle School has allotted a 38

Monterey Peninsula Unified School District - Extended Learning Opportunities

The one-acre organic garden/orchard on the grounds of the Hilton Bialek Habitat (at Carmel Middle School) has long serviced students from the Carmel Unified School District and the underserved communities in our broader community. Our garden goal is to bring the organic garden's bounty to high school students of the Extended Learning Opportunities Program of the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) to teach them to understand sustainable food choices, harvest from the garden, learn about food safety and preparation, and prepare snacks and a family meal.

Ford Road Elementary

The goal of the gardening project has educational value and practical aims focused on community engagement. The primary educational goal of the garden will be to educate the students about agriculture and making healthy lifestyle choices. Equally important is the practical aim to develop a common interest within the community that increases opportunities of family engagement.

This program is supported by .

Paxson Elementary

The goal of the Paxson Outdoor Learning Center is to set public school curriculum in a beautiful, natural space where children can associate learning with real life outcomes.

This grant will make possible the expansion of key pieces of our education component, by providing needed funding for equipment to model plant growth and outfit our existing shed for vermiculture (worm composting).

Mother Caroline Academy

We will use our school garden as a classroom tool which will not only enrich our curriculum, but extend the borders of our lessons and advance our school mission and commitment to lifelong learning. This grant would expand our garden's reach to begin and implement a garden-to-table curriculum and program where we can plant, harvest and prepare vegetables from our own backyard in our school cafeteria.

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