Garden Classrooms

All Saints' Day School

The All Saints' Organic Garden is a cross-curricular outdoor classroom that provides each grade with the opportunity to learn about the interconnections of nature and help each student find their place in the natural world. 

Planning and caring for the garden provides children with the  basic knowledge they need to become stewards of a living system that needs their care. 

Barcroft Elementary School

Barcroft Elementary, a Da Vinci school, is dedicated to creating lifelong learners with exceptional health and nutrition habits. Your grant will enable our students to grow food for two annual events: Farm-to-Table week, when local chefs and farmers serve healthy snacks and share their passion for food; and the First Grade Thanksgiving Feast, where first graders and their parents try typical American Thanksgiving fare, often for the first time. With a new large, raised planting bed, our students will plant, tend, and serve their own vegetables during Farm-to-Table Week.

Owl Creek

Apple Seeds, Inc. upholds a mission to provide education and tools to enhance local food systems and support better nutrition for folks in Northwest Arkansas. Since 2009, we have been a school garden leader within the Fayetteville Public School District (FPSD). We currently support three school gardens and will begin supporting a fourth in Spring 2013.

Leverett Elementary

Apple Seeds, Inc. upholds a mission to provide education and tools to enhance local food systems and support better nutrition for folks in Northwest Arkansas. Since 2009, we have been a school garden leader within the Fayetteville Public School District (FPSD). We currently support three school gardens and will begin supporting a fourth in Spring 2013.

Abraham Lincoln High School

Exploration and Experimentation are the themes for our garden. Our motto is

Stehlik Intermediate School

This garden grant will teach the special needs students at Stehlik Intermediate, that there are cycles to everyday living. With the funds we receive, we will buy the supplies needed to start our garden as well as supplemental teaching materials to further educate the students in horticulture. The garden will also help students learn about the food chain, photosynthesis and the environment, in addition to teaching them about empathy for living things.

The Agnon School

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YouthWorks Charter High School

The garden was implemented in 1993 and has been sustained for over 20 years through the commitment of Mr. Cordier and his student volunteers. It continues to be a significant attraction to students and an incentive to increase knowledge in environmental education and farming.

The garden has impacted our students

Belvedere Elementary School

In our world of video games and high tech devices, today's children often miss the pleasure of going outside and digging in the garden. One of our goals at Belvedere is to have our students experience the joy of seeing food grow from seed to edible treat. We would like our children to be active participants in growing vegetables that they might not regularly see on their tables at home. Our goal is to help our students grow and try new foods they do not see everyday. It is shown that children will often try foods unfamiliar to them when they grow it themselves.

Albuquerque Academy

We have a small greenhouse and garden plot that students help maintain. Our goal is to expand to grow food for the dining hall and to sell at the weekly farmers market on campus. We have been working to convince the dining halls to use our local, healthy food--higher yield would increase our ability to do this.

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