Garden Classrooms

Canyon Charter Elementary School

The goal of the Canyon Harvest Project is to add a permanent, heavy-duty shed for storing garden and education materials and a drip irrigation system to reduce water runoff and educate students on the importance of water resources and to minimize mildew on plants. Such a system would allow us to continue growing crops over the summer holiday. Summer crops include squash, pumpkin and corn that could be used in a fall harvest celebration. Additionally, we would like to purchase soil, compost and seedlings to replenish our containers throughout the school year.

Woodriver Elementary School

The goal is to maintain a food production focused school garden that serves as an educational resource during the school year and a source of food for the community during the summer. Additionally, we seek to engage the community surrounding the school by hosting a weekly farm stand, harvest celebrations and offering Student Gardener led garden tours throughout the summer.

Valley Springs Elementary

Our primary goal is to promote and support healthy and sustainable lifestyles in our community and schools by teaching students and families how to grow and prepare healthy food.

Salazar Elementary School

School gardens have always been effective tools to teach young people about agriculture, eco-systems, nutrition, and food safety. The first goal is have students work towards starting the city

Burlington High School

Together, the Burlington School Food Project (BSFP), students, and staff are re-envisioning the campus at Burlington High School. Currently, we have 11 raised beds, 3 in-ground plots, a functioning greenhouse, and a new tool shed thanks to partnership with the Burlington High School Boosters Club (go seahorses!). In the spring we hope to both streamline our gardens and create a much larger half-acre production farm. The farm will be based on principals of permaculture, and will be developed as part of a hands-on certification course through Yestermorrow Design Build School.

Sand Hill Venable Elementary

Our hope with this garden project is to integrate garden care and use into our

everyday curriculum. Each grade, K-5, will be assigned a small garden plot. Each grade

level will be responsible for the upkeep of their garden plot and those grade level teachers

will incorporate the garden into science, literacy, math and writing lessons throughout the

school year.

The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project distributes a wonderful weekly

newsletter which includes literature, activities, recipes and journal topics to incorporate

McNicol Middle School

Students will help to plant, care, water and harvest the fruit from the trees planted in the Tropical Fruit Tree Garden. In addition, the students will participate interactively in a horticultural and nutritional orientation. There will be an opportunity for other educational / information workshops conducted by the Rare Fruit and Vegetable Council of Broward (County) and the nutritionist at the nearest Whole Foods Market will put on a session for both teachers, administration and students.

City Garden Montessori Charter School

We want the garden to double as an outdoor classroom that supports the Montessori Philosophy that our school embodies.

Coral Cove Elementary

The goal of my garden is to involve children in hands-on participation with the planting, cultivation/maintenance, harvesting, and delivery of produce to the community. Nutrition and health awareness are also important components. Organic gardening techniques including composting with produce from our school cafeteria will be used to promote environmentally responsible methods.

Brook Knoll Elementary School

The goal of the Brook Knoll Life Lab is for students to see the relationship between the lifecycle of plants, caring for the garden, harvesting vegetables and how these things affect them, their food and their health. We want them to see the great value of the Earth and what it produces in their lives. But, our efforts go beyond that and this grant would not only make this possible but would also allow us to continue to contribute to the larger community. First, we donate food for school lunches, helping the school district provide healthier food to its students.

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