Garden Classrooms

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Elementary School

Our goal is to create a garden on school grounds for all students, staff, parents and neighbours to enjoy. As well as, providing an opportunity for all the students to learn more about food sources, develop life skills that can be used now and in the future and increase their awareness of how different foods taste. Throughout this, we would like to develop a sense of community and a life long enjoyment of gardening. With the grant, we would be able to build more garden boxes allowing more children "hands on" space in the garden. This program is supported by .

Los Angeles Leadership Academy

In addition to being an outdoor teaching space, a primary garden goal is to be able to grow enough vegetables to have a weekly salad bar at our school. Students at our school largely come from disadvantaged and low income families and many lack access to fresh healthy food. Yet in the work we have done so far in the garden we have found that our students love to chop vegetables, to make salads and stir fries and are very willing to eat their veggies.

New England Kurn Hattin Homes

The educational aspects are unlimited and included in virtually all aspects of the educational curricula.

KNIGHT ELEMENTARY

Knight Elementary is seeking funding to implement a healthy eating program for our students. We want to involve students, teachers, parents and our chef in hands-on learning experiences which will enhance the overall education of our students, especially in nutrition and healthy eating habits. This program would include an outdoor learning garden where students can grow vegetables and learn healthy eating habits using nutritional food from the garden. As part of our program, a local farmer will teach students how to plant and grow vegetables.

Katherine Anne Porter School

Katherine Anne Porter School's garden is a place for our students to learn not just the science associated with gardening but also a place to learn respect for our environment. We hope to engage our students with a desire to learn how to encourage our soil to return it's nutritional wealth to us through the use of organic principals of gardening. With the assistance of the Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant we will be able to build better fences to protect the garden from deer foraging, build up the soil in the beds, have a larger garden space, and a healthier return at harvest time.

James Robinson Public School

One of our main goals is to introduce our students to food gardening in order for them to learn first-hand about their role in sustainability. We also intend to promote healthy food choices by providing the opportunity for students to select, grow and harvest thier own food. This hands-on approach to the curriculum is also an authentic venue for 'inquiry based learning, which will engage and motivate "at risk" students.

Irving Elementary School

We have just wrapped up our first year of gardening at Irving Elementary and are excited to keep growing! We were able to receive funding to purchase a complete Woolly School Garden last year which included 10 hanging planters that transformed our chain-link fence into an urban garden. We also purchased two above-ground planters to complement our hanging garden. While this allowed us and our students to build a garden and teach students the process of growing from seed to harvest, the types and numbers of plants our garden could accommodate was limited and our yields were low.

Meridian Middle School

MMS student garden broke ground spring 2011. School Nurse,Betsy Howard had a vision & plan to establish a sustainable student garden received start-up funds donated from the PTA. Boy Scout Troops constructed 8 raised beds (wheel chair accsesible), garden shed & greenhouse, summer 2011. In fall 2011, students grew a cover crop, planted raspberries, learned about seeds, soil & sustainability. Spring 2012 students grew vegetables & flowers. The garden has flourished, student participation has increased & we gained a community partner.

Roosevelt Middle School

The goals for the Roosevelt Middle School garden align closely with FoodCorps' priorities of improving children's health through knowledge, engagement, and access. Another component of the school garden is empowerment. We know that kids who participate in the design, construction, and operation of a school garden develop skills and confidence that enable them to become young leaders.

Washington Elementary School

Grantsdale School is a small, four-classroom schoolhouse located in an agricultural area in the Bitterroot Valley outside the city of Hamilton, Montana. Our historical roots are tied to the land, with many farms still in operation. This connection to nature is what we hope to perpetuate by teaching our children the value of making healthy soil, growing organic food, preparing it, eating it and sharing it with our community. Our garden currently has four raised beds, one bed in the ground for flowers to attract beneficial insects, an apple tree and three raised beds made from large tires.

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