Garden Classrooms

Silver Spring International Middle School

We are seeking your support to help us start a school garden program for our middle school, which serves students in grades 6-8 in a highly diverse and urban area of Montgomery County. As an authorized International Baccalaureate World School that offers the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), we are committed to providing our students with inquiry-based, real-world problem solving in an international, intercultural context.

Jefferson Middle School

The garden at Jefferson is part of Kid Power's VeggieTime program, in which students connect academic lessons on nutrition and the environment to hands-on urban gardening activities. Kid Power students maintain 3 garden beds at Jefferson Middle School. Currently, students use the crop yield for 3 main purposes: 1) cooking lessons and demonstrations; 2) sale at local farmer's markets; and 3) home use for families. Revenue from produce sales fund youth-led nutritional service-learning projects. Due to funding limitations, Kid Power has not been able to expand the garden beds at Jefferson.

Arsenal Technical High School

The John H. Boner Community Center and Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center inspires neighbors and partners to improve the quality of life on the Near Eastside by providing tools for change and growth. Ultimately, we hope the garden and the learning opportunities made available through it's existence help play a small part in achieving this mission.

Pittsburgh Faison K-5

Our garden's goal is to provide all students at the school an opportunity to connect science classroom learning with experiential food-based education in the garden. We believe that through weekly classes in the garden we are able to promote healthy eating habits, invest our students in the school community and enhance academic achievement.

Fugees Academy

We have two primary goals: the first is to create and maintain a healthy, sustainable garden in which all (56) students in our academy of sixth through ninth-grade students will have the experience of producing food from the soil, and to use our produce in school lunches. We cultivate six five-by-ten-foot raised beds, as well as herbs in containers. Because we are located in central Georgia, we are able to produce vegetables all year. We serve most of our produce in the school cafeteria and donate 5% to the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Forest Knolls Elementary School

Our goal is to have a vibrant Outdoor Classroom at our school where teachers engage students in hands-on explorations of plant science, nutrition, and service learning. In striving to keep our gardens as simple and low-maintenance as possible for all of our teachers and students, we will continue to focus on growing salad greens in wheelchair-accessible container gardens during the fall and spring growing seasons through six-week units that culminate with "make-your-own salad" parties.

Evansdale Elementary

Evansdale's vision for the school garden is a thriving garden and "learning lab" where students and community members come together to learn and grow. The goals are to expand on the rich educational and cultural offerings that are already part and parcel of the Evansdale educational experience. As a Science Magnet school, Evansdale is in a unique position to connect the school garden to science education. For years the school has had a thriving "green team" program that focuses on "reduce, reuse, recycle" and values conservation and sustainability.

Amigos School

During the school year, CitySprouts program integrates the school garden into the curriculum. A partnership with the City of Cambridge science department means that many Massachusetts framework science lessons have garden extensions written into them so that teachers have the option of teaching lessons in the garden. For example, the unit Living Things has a garden extension so that a teacher has the option of working in the garden.

Bronx Charter School for Better Learning

Goals for our garden are to promote nutrition education, social responsibility, and environmental awareness through a project that supports our school

Louise Troy PK-3 School

The garden at Louise Troy will support each of the three goal outcomes of After-School All-Stars Dayton.

1. Increase students' academic press. We will partner with the faculty at Louise Troy to learn how we can reinforce science standards and other school day learning to positively impact students' motivation and academic confidence.

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