Garden Classrooms

Lana'i High & Elementary School

We started our garden last year. We are very food insecure. More than 90 cents of every dollar is spent on food imported from out of state. In a disaster, our town would go hungry in less than a week.

Our long range goals include growing a substantial supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and raising chickens for eggs to supply our cafeteria, support students' families and/or to sell at the local Saturday farmers' market.

La Honda Elementary School

We want to build upon our existing community support to continue to provide outdoor learning opportunities for our students by expanding our school garden program. La Honda Elementary has recently partnered with Pacific School in Davenport, CA to start a Food Lab program at our school where students would participate in weekly cooking classes to prepare an item for the school lunch featuring produce from our school garden. Money from the Whole Kids Foundation will give us resources to have reliable, regular food production from our school garden for the Food Lab cooking classes.

John F. Kennedy Elementary school

To help make plant based learning a part of our student

Irene King Elementary School

The overarching goal of our Garden Committee is to teach responsibility. We believe this project can teach both personal and community responsibility. Students will learn personal responsibility through making healthy choices, and learning how to properly take of their bodies by eating a balanced diet. The project will also teach community responsibility by having students assist in the construction, care, and maintenance of the garden. Through their participation they will gain a sense of community pride.

Homewood Middle School

The goals of the HCS Community garden are numerous and include: increase the community's interest in and use of fresh vegetables, encourage healthier eating habits, educate students and adults in the art and science of gardening, help support natural science education in the schools with an outdoor classroom to study entomology, botany, soil science, encourage community and outdoor excercise and to turn an existing eyesore into a vibrant, beautiful working orchard and garden.

Hillcrest Elementary

The goal of the Hillcrest Garden is to connect students with where their food comes from, inspiring positive changes in their eating habits that ultimately will support improvements in their overall health. We do this by creating a beautiful garden space directly outside of their classroom windows. The students interact with the garden in many ways, from passing the garden to-and-from classes, working in the garden during school, enjoying the produce in the cafeteria, and attending volunteer days with their parents on the weekends.

Henry Haight Elementary

The Henry Haight Outdoor Learning Center is up and running for the year of 2012. We had massive community support to get the garden set up this past spring, but as 60% of our school is eligible for the free or reduced lunch program, and we have very limited PTA resources, we are seeking funds to keep the garden operational for the coming school year. Our goal for 2013 is to make more garden classes available to our school body, including some after-school activities. My co-coordinator and I host several classes a week out in our 3000 sq. ft. space.

Hartsfield Elelmentary School

The goals of the Hartsfield "Hawk's Harvest" Community Garden is:

Grassland Elementary School

The goal of the Grassland garden is to provide an outdoor living, edible and nature-based learning environment and outdoor classroom opportunities for our school children. We envision a place where school children and teachers will have a pleasant outdoor space to conduct learning activities during the school day.

Glen Oaks Elementary School

Our primary goal is to expand and sustain an existing school garden located at Glen Oaks Elementary school in Fairfield, Alabama. This garden is used by students in the Better Basics HOPE Community Learning Center program in the afternoon and is accessible to students and teachers throughout the school day.

Our garden instruction seeks to increase students

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