Garden Classrooms

Edna Maguire Elementary School

The primary goal of the Mill Valley Children's Garden is to cultivate a healthy community with our 500+ students by strengthening their connection with the food system and improving access to nutritious food. We envision a food community where all our students grow, nurture, harvest and prepare healthy food from seed to table. In doing this we hope to encourage good stewardship, a deep understanding of where all our food comes from, to make healthy food choices, cook for those in our community that area less fortunate and to participate in a vibrant local and seasonal food system.

Weinland Park Elementary School

Local Matters staff will work with staff and volunteers from Weinland Park Elementary (WPE) to expand their current learning garden. This garden will serve as an outdoor learning environment for WPE students and function as a demonstration garden for parents and other adults in the community who wish to begin growing their own food.

Columbus Collegiate Academy

Local Matters will create a school garden at the Columbus Collegiate Academy where children learn about where food comes from, why it

Martins Ferry High School

In the city of Martins Ferry, fresh produce is not always a priority due to limiting economic factors. Food security and nutritional health is an area of potential growth and development. One main goal of the garden is to build awareness about the feasibility of growing one

Boston Latin School

We aim to create a hydroponic garden in an urban setting at Boston Latin School (BLS) to raise student interest in sustainable agriculture,to promote eating healthy locally grown produce, and to utilize the hydroponic garden as an engaging learning tool in science courses.

Deerfield Run Elementary School

The goal of the garden at Deerfield Run Elementary School is to create a safe place for the students to learn and play. There is an existing school garden space that needs to be renovated and replanted. Once finished, the school's youth garden will support classroom lessons in science through hands-on activities outdoors for the entire school, which serves 549 students in grades K-5. The students will increase their knowledge of the natural world for the ultimate goal of creating the next generation of environmental stewards in our local communities.

Parkview Junior Academy

Our goal is to expand our initial implementation of the Edible Garden at Parkview Junior Academy, so that it can serve as a four-season garden that provides sufficient fresh produce to feed the Academy's students, and students' families who are in dire need, and, provide teachers with project-based learning opportunities.

This grant will allow Quench & Nourish, Inc.

Episcopal Day School

Our goal is to enhance the Episcopal Day School garden program, engage and empower our students, their families and the surrounding neighborhood in ways that will improve their overall health. We'll expand our garden program to include our younger students adding a sensory garden to the kinder natural playscape area, and we will integrate garden concepts into the curriculum to stimulate learning in all subject areas. Our community has an above normal occurance of diabetes that can be directly related to eating habits and lifestyle.

Tom Foster Elementary

The students at Foster Elementary benefit most from the hands-on learning opportunities and exposure to healthy food and fitness choices offered by the school garden. Through sensory observations and inquiry-driven methods, math, science, and other subjects come alive in the outdoors. As a result, students develop content knowledge and learning strategies for the long-term, helping them achieve far more than just passing scores on standardized tests.

Nathan Adams Elementary

The students at Nathan Adams benefit most from the hands-on learning opportunities and exposure to healthy food and fitness choices offered by the school garden. Through sensory observations and inquiry-driven methods, math, science, and other subjects come alive in the outdoors. As a result, students develop content knowledge and learning strategies for the long-term, helping them achieve far more than just passing scores on standardized tests.

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