Garden Classrooms

Farmington Harrison High School

This project addresses the creation of a functional working urban garden on the campus of Farmington Harrison High School. The garden will house local vegetables, herbs and flowers. This project will serve as a beacon for healthy sustainable living-something often lacking in the community of Farmington and Farmington Hills. It provides a rare opportunity for a suburban community to utilize space with purpose. The goal of this project is to promote sustainability through our school and local community.

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Grayson County High School

The goal of the garden project is to not only connect our students with real life hands-on learning, but also to provide our cafeteria and community with fresh vegetables grown by our own students. Our goal is to use the garden as a classroom where students can connect to real world learning and reap the benefits of hard work and cooperation. We hope that the garden will integrate with other subjects taught at our school such as Math, Science, English, and Art and that students will gain knowledge that will not only help them academically but in life in general.

Prodigy Leadersip Academy

The five primary goals for our garden project are:

1. To teach essential life skills and support academic learning through the planning, planting, harvesting, preparation and cooking of the fruits and vegetables from our garden plot. We know that children learn more through active involvement in the learning process.

2. Create a school wide project that involves children ages kindergarten through 12th grade, teachers, parents, and community volunteers.

Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School

The goal of the garden is to increase awareness through:

Multicultural Magnet School

The goal of building this school garden is to integrate the garden as an outdoor classroom. This

Cross School

Working with the school community, GVI proposes to build a 37

Bassick High School

Bassick High School in Bridgeport, CT a business magnet school is a unique opportunity to develop curriculum based on agriculture in local economy.

GVI will establish a 42' x 60

Eugene J. Gribbin School

The Gribbin Site Committee is trying to implement the addition of a school greenhouse in our structure so that the students may grow a garden in a controlled environment.

Early Childhood University

The Growing Place at our school is growing healthy bodies, minds and greens through interdisciplinary classwork outdoors. This learning garden includes a stage with seating for 2-3 classes at a time, raised beds, and a Woolly Wall hanging garden next to our supply shed. Our mission is to cultivate curiosity about nature's processes while building a practical foundation for a healthy lifestyle.

Gilchrist Elementary School

The Gilchrist Elementary School Mission Statement sums up our desire to start and maintain a community garden for our school. "The Gilchrist Family of Lifelong Learners--students, teachers, staff, parents, and community members-- is committed to an on-going planning process that will ensure a quality learning environment, state-of-the-art facility, and a curriculum that will be the foundation for this life-long learning."

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