Garden Classrooms

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.

Horizon Academy

It is our goal that a vegetable garden will enrich both our school year programs and summer programs. For the past nine years, we have sponsored a Junior Master Gardeners

Transition Plus Hopkins

The goal of this garden is to provide a real life learning lab for our special needs students who are 18-21. This would be a real life learning lab which would help implant thoughts of nutrition and hard work, planning and follow through in addition to one of the most important goals of our students which is human interaction. "When communities provide opportunities for people to work side by side for a common good, their attitudes for each other significantly improve." (August Hoffman, Star Tribune, 2012). Project based experiences have proven to be the most valuable with our students.

Our Lady of the Holy Souls Catholic School

Arkansas has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in the country. Because of this, in 2003 the Arkansas legislature passed legislation to combat childhood obesity. The goal of the Garden Project is focused on educating students at all levels on issues of how to plant, grow and harvest herbs, vegetables and fruit in a garden that the students themselves (under the supervision of a Garden Director) have cultivated. By getting the students involved in growing the food, it is the hope that they will then make healthier food choices.

MULHOLLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL

Our garden's goal is to teach low income parents and students how to grow vegetables and fruit to support a healthy diet for themselves and their families. So far we have had a very successful Parent Garden Class for the parents of Mulholland Middle School since September and we meet once a week for instructional guidance from two Master Gardeners(MGs) from the University of CA Cooperative Extension. In addition to the MGs, the Network has been providing nutrition education along with a healthy tasting and sampling of seasonal fruits and vegetables and how to prepare these recipes.

Hooper Elementary School

The goal for our garden is to build a greenhouse and small garden for our students. This grant will make it possible for our students k-6th grade to EXPERIENCE science, math, health and Language arts curriculum in the greenhouse in exchange for just reading and doing small experiments in classrooms. Our classrooms for grades k-3rd grade have no windows, making it difficult to grow plants for their science curriculum. The majority of what we grow in the greenhouse will be fruits and vegetables. We plan to donate fresh fruit and vegetables to three local food banks in our community.

Hunter's Creek Elementary School

Most Americans are generations away from the family farm. As a child, I remember visiting my uncle

Ockley Green School

The Ockley Green Garden connects children with an understanding of how their food grows through hands-on learning experiences. In partnership with Growing Gardens, Ockley Green hopes to integrate the community with the garden program by establishing a robust Garden Committee, facilitating quarterly work parties, offering teacher support and curriculum connections, and conducting family outreach through Parent-Child workshops and enrollment in the Growing Gardens Home Garden Program.

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