Garden Classrooms

Glasgow Middle School

The goal of the gardening club is to promote health and nutrition education by integrating existing and planned gardens into the overall 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curricula starting with science, consumer science, and after school clubs then expanding to health classes. Students will grow their own produce, take an active role in food preparation, and engage the Glasgow community in learning about food production, distribution, and preparation. We hope to instill in them healthy eating habits and cooking styles that will carry over into adulthood.

Florida Autism Charter School of Excellence

The FACE's community garden allows students with autism to take responsibility for caring for a garden every day. We envision an outdoor classroom where academic skills such as math, science, nutrition, language arts and social studies concepts are taught. Additionally, the hands on sensory impact of working in the garden is very therapeutic to many children with autism. Others benefit from improved social skills due to the partnership with students at Tampa's Learning Gate Community School, whose students work inclusively along side our students with autism.

Excel Academy Public Charter School

The garden is first and foremost a great teaching tool. Our teachers use the garden regularly for both small group and individual instruction.

Enemy Swim Day School

School gardening at Enemy Swim Day School ( ESDS) is a popular choice of school day classrooms and after school activity clubs! Past successes include 5th grade salsa garden, 4th grade corn crop, preschool pumpkin patch, Big Tomato Contest and Community Soup Night.

Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School

The garden at Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School will provide students with an alternative, hands-on approach to science, health and nutrition education. While the initial building of the garden will take place in late 2012, the funds from your grant will allow the garden to continue to grow for the 2013-2014 school year. The garden will be used by three primary groups. The first group is classroom teachers, including those working with the large population of developmentally handicapped students that attend Eisenhower Elementary School.

College View School

Our goal for this garden project is to create a fully functioning produce garden that all students, staff, and community members can be a part of. We want this garden to be used as a living laboratory to support teaching and learning. Students will have the opportunity to gain real-life knowledge of the necessary steps in food cultivation. While already active in numerous healthy living programs, this garden would allow College View students and community members to participate in the farm-to-table concept.

Thomas A Edison Middle School

The goal of the garden is to connect students to healthy produce, to help them understand where food comes from, and teach them to be able to grow their own vegetables. The region surrounding the school has a limited supply of produce, which is often flavorless, non-organic, non-local and grown from GMO seeds. Through education, opportunity and healthy eating and nutrition experiences, the school hopes to combat the levels of high cholesterol and diabetes in the community.

Trafalgar Elementary

Our garden's goal is to provide an engaging, inclusive outdoor classroom space where children, teachers, and parents can learn the skills to nourish themselves. We have partnered with a small organization called EarthBites, and together we work to provide integrated gardening and nutrition programming for all the students at Trafalgar. We started with 11 planter boxes 2 years ago, and last year expanded it to include an outdoor seating area and orchard with fruit trees and berries.

Daniel Webster Elementary School

Daniel Webster Elementary School (DW) has two garden programs - an in school program, the Garden and Environmental Education Program, is taught by a paid, professional Garden Coordinator and provides students, grades K through 5 with instruction in gardening, composting, nutrition, and environmental stewardship.

Del Valle High School

Del Valle High School is a Title I Public School, which is located in a food desert. Students and their families have limited access to fresh foods, and a majority of our student body qualifies for free and reduced lunch. The Cardinal Garden will be one small, but solid, step towards awareness of organic, sustainable gardening in Central Texas. The garden will bring several student groups together with a common interest and purpose. The DVHS SHOC (Students Helping Our Community) Club will build and help maintain the garden.

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