Garden Classrooms

Pride Ave Elementary / Hopkins County Schools

Over the last three years we have secured funds to create an outdoor learning environment. Currently our courtyard features a butterfly habitat, pond, and various plants (trees, scrubs, flowers). We experimented with growing our own tomatoes and had great success with just planting two tomato plants. Due to the enthusiasm created when we grew just two tomato plants that produced an abundance of tomatoes, dreams of growing more fruits and vegetables emerged!

Portland Elementary

The primary goal of our garden is to teach students how to grow, tend, and harvest their own food and to teach healthy eating and healthy decision making around food. The gardens are connected to science and social studies classes at our school. Students examine insects in the garden and compare them with insects in other parts of the outdoor classroom. Besides healthy eating and scientific knowledge, the theme gardens are connected to cultural studies in our social studies classes to teach students respect for and awareness of other cultures.

Poolesville HS

First Fruits Farms at Poolesville HS goal is to provide a working farm of the future to engage our students in exploring and solving broad societal challenges like hunger, childhood diabetes, dwindling resources and climate change as well as narrow technical challenges of a robotic renewable powered urban farm.

Poolesville's Global House program is the countywide magnet for environmental studies. Agriculture is the number one producer of greenhouse gases and uses 75% of the fresh water consumed.

Ponderosa High School

Ponderosa High School (PHS) has an established greenhouse, outdoor garden, and sustainability program which includes renewable energy, storm water harvesting, native and water wise landscaping, and composting. We are in process of building an additional 800 sq. ft. hoop house that will enable "three season" growing. The greenhouse serves as our classroom, water catchment and aquaculture system, place for seed starting and vermi-composting, and art room for design & planning. In the hoop house we will focus on food production.

Ponce de Leon Middle School

The garden's goal is to involve students in creating, planting, and maintining their garden, Last year students built the garden boxes and installed the arber and the fence around the perimeter of the garden with spacific measurements. Them they planted vegetables, herbs and added a bit of whimsy. This year the students weeded and repainted the garden boxes and were instucted to bring in spacific vegetables and herbs. They will monitor the growth of one of the plants that they bring in with a ruler. They will have a log where they will be keeping their data and observations made.

Percy L. Julian High School

The goal of the Julian Community Garden is to create an inter-generational environment that offers a variety of opportunities to impact our community; helping students to develop social skills, enhancing school curricula, bringing families in the community together and identifying authentic links between nature and our food, clothing and shelter.

This program is supported by .

Pathfinder K-8

Our garden exists to serve as an outdoor classroom that supports and extends curriculum in the school, builds school community, and encourages awareness around growing and eating nutritious food.

Oxford Elementary School

Roberts Farm has three major goals and community gaps which it vision addresses. These are:

Goal 1 - The major community goal for students participating in the Roberts Farm is to grow 4,000 pounds of fresh produce each calendar year to donate to

Northwoods Middle School

Northwoods Middle School is a Title I Public Middle School located in North Charleston, SC. Most of the parents who send there children to this school live in poverty, therefore we have limited donations from a parent organization. The children would like to build a garden around a newly constructed Outdoor Shelter that was constructed by a local chapter of Trident United Way. The garden area would include seating for at least thirty five people, with a garden surrounding the area.

North West Junior High

1) To provide a safe, fun place for a diverse group of young people to gain cognitive and non-cognitive skills

2) To instruct students in the tending and growing of nutritious fruits and vegetables, and the care of our land.

3) To foster the mentor relationships between high-school and middle-school aged students, and middle and elementary aged students in a

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