Garden Classrooms

Woodbridge College

The goal of our garden will be to create a dynamic learning experience for our Developmentally Delayed classroom. These students, who are in Grades 9-12, are functioning from the pre-K to Grade 1 level. Some of them have lived very sheltered lives, and need different experiences in order for them to grow. The garden will be a learning and a living experience for these children. This garden will help some of these students gain valuable experience that they may be able to use in the job force.

Yonkers Public School 29

My goal as parent is to give our children the experience to grow a garden as a group. It will enable our students to grow as individuals and establish better eating habits. Overweight and bad eating habits is an epidemic, children do not realize where healthy food comes from.

Xavier Elementary

Our garden goal is to educate students about healthy lifestyle choices and encourage them to make healthier choices in their everyday lives. Various garden produce gives students an opportunity to taste a wider variety of fruits and vegetables. The garden will also enable us to teach environmental awareness and sustainability practices through hands-on activities. This grant will help us maintain the garden by funding the creation of an efficient watering system.

Woodland Elementary School

The goal of the Woodland Garden Club is to give the students first-hand practical experience about the joys of maintaining a garden. This grant will give us the needed financial support to be

able to continue the garden and hopefully implement new ideas that the club has for the future. Having the opportunity at school to learn about gardening will provide many children vital life-long skills about planting, harvesting, and even preparing foods that they may not otherwise receive at home.

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Winchester School

Our goal is to utilize our existing garden plot and greenfouse to grow more food. We would do this by utilizing grant funds to better cultivate our garden space; do secondary plantings once an initial planting has been harvested; manage our school compost area to provide compost for the garden and for the community; and use our greenhouse fall, winter and spring. Producing more food would mean that more students could sample items grown here by themselves or their schoolmates.

Washington Elementary School

The Washington Elementary School Edible Courtyard will be primarily an educational garden - inviting kids to learn about fresh fruits and vegetables, planting and gardening, and nutrition and health during their school day and after classes. 95% of students receive Free or Reduced lunches, and this garden will be a way to increase access to fresh produce through the cafeteria and for clubs' snacks. Our garden will also encourage students to feel safe in their community, and to become familiar with environmental and food issues in their community.

Wando High School

Our school garden began with the inception of our school horticulture program in the Fall of 2009. Through donations of seed and rich topsoil our school garden had humble beginnings. Students in our suburban town got to experience, many for the first time, the miracle and crowning achievement of growing their own food. Each student begins with vegetables seeds and grows them to maturity in one short semester. In the past, some of these vegetables have been used by our culinary arts program and others donated to our local "Meals on Wheels" program.

Waldorf School of Orange County

Our goal is to "keep the ball rolling"! This semester, the kindergarten teachers and parents came together to organize and establish a kindergarten garden program. Through gardening, the students are learning science, math, teamwork, and the rewards of hardwork. They get to practice all of these skills while being outside, exercising, and working with their hands. They get to experience the long and rewarding process of feeding the soil, planting the seed, watering the seed, watching it grow and tending it along the way, harvesting, and finally, eating it!

von Humboldt Elementary School

Humboldt Park has a strong history of organization around urban agriculture. The Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness along with CLOCC have improved access to healthy foods. Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School runs an innovative urban agriculture program. The Monarch Community Garden provides a place for local community members to grow fresh vegetables. However, Humboldt Park has no school gardens. School gardens are outdoor classrooms that provide

Vista Square Elementary School

We are pursuing grant funds to turn the garden into an outdoor classroom with garden-based educational materials. We have attended garden workshops on garden enhanced nutrition education and planting a native garden to learn how to incorporate the garden into core curriculum requirements. I have gained the support from several teachers to use the garden to enhance their science, math and English curriculum. Students will help maintain the compost pile and worm bin.

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