Garden Classrooms

Glassel Park Elementary School

We built this garden in the spring of 2012. It includes an outdoor kitchen. The goal of this garden is to have it be the center of the existing program that teaches environmental stewardship, social awareness, wellness, nutrition and ecology. The greatest achievement in the program thus far has been getting students involved in their school garden and is an integral part of their academic curriculum. The students have been exposed to where their food comes and have been able to plant, tend to the garden and watch it grow and finally learn to make healthy food by utilizing the crops.

Delevan Drive Elementary

The original garden at Delevan Drive Elementary was meant to be a part of an old horticultural program at the school. Sadly, LAUSD eliminated various garden programs a long time ago. The unused and deteriorated nursery, chick coop, and garden shed was a gloomy sight. Last June, Enrich LA was solicited to renovate the mini farm so that it can flourish again. The school pledged $1500 and the parent group, Friends of Delevan, raised an additional $5000.

Grand View Boulevard Elementary

EnrichLA did an extreme makeover of this garden in April 2012 with the help of a Lowe's Toolbox Grant! The goal of the Grand View garden is to engage community members, students, parents, teachers in learning about gardening, environmental stewardship, nutrition, and healthy eating, including the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. This grant will enable us rebuild the old tool shed and add two wooden compost bins.

This program is supported by ENRICH LA.

St. Stephen's Academy at Glade Run Lutheran Services

Glade Run Gardens serves as a therapeutic, vocational, and educational program for children throughout Western Pennsylvania. Students at St. Stephen's, Glade Run's private licensed school, participate in horticulture programming as part of their curriculum, learning about plants and the natural environment and developing a love of nature. For children in residential treatment at Glade Run for emotional health issues, the gardens serve still other purposes: horticulture therapy and a vocational program.

La Ballona Elementary

Our garden's goal is to build awareness among parents, students and staff about the wonderful garden that we have and the wonderful curriculum associated with it. We would like to increase the number of teachers who utilize the garden in teaching their lessons plans and curriculum. We want to teach our students the importance of gardening, to get students to try new vegetables and to understand what's involved in getting fresh foods from a garden or farm to our tables.

Bessie Carmichael

The goal is to educate youth about the impacts food has on personal health and the health of the environment, while also cultivating their entrepreneurial skills through business partnerships. Funding would allow Bessie Carmichael to recruit Healthy Planet to help them fully develop their school garden and coordinate a student-run Enterprise Project based around their harvest, where the students want to use real food from the garden for the school cafeteria or snacks. The proceeds produced by the project will go towards the school garden and its maintenance.

Hoffman Estates High School

The goals are to 1) engage our diverse population of students on the importance of good food choices to aide against childhood obesity 2) collaborate with the Science, Math, Health, Family Consumer Science, Applied Technology, and the Special Education departments to show how building and maintaining a garden connects to multiple aspects of education 3) update and organize our greenhouse to plant and maintain an assortment of plants in the fall and winter that will be replanted outside in the spring and summer 4) build raised beds to transplant the plants from the greenhouse to raised beds

Ingenium Charter School

The garden will provide a hands-on way for students in grades kindergarten

West Adams Preparatory High School

The goal of the Teaching Garden is to shift the way students think about food. Through interactive programing and project-based learning students will increase their appreciation and understanding of agriculture, nutrition, and the food system. Teachers will utilize garden-themed lessons to teach 180 students nutrition, science and other subjects. The school Garden Club will teach students how to plant seeds, nurture growing plants, harvest produce and understand the value of good eating habits.

Manual Arts High School

The goal of the Teaching Garden is to shift the way students think about food. Through interactive programing and project-based learning students will increase their appreciation and understanding of agriculture, nutrition, and the food system. Teachers will utilize garden-themed lessons to teach 180 students nutrition, science and other subjects. The school Garden Club will teach students how to plant seeds, nurture growing plants, harvest produce and understand the value of good eating habits.

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