Garden Classrooms

William B. Travis high school

The grant money will build the garden and organic compost collection. With the development of the previously mentioned goals we hope to build a learning environment and a number of green spaces where students faculty and staff can enjoy a natural environment to learn and be a little closer to a natural environment. Starting small we will build upon our successes in sustainable environmentally responsible practices as a public high school in our community for other schools to follow our model.

Will Rogers Elementary School

Long range goal is to create a beautiful space where students can commute with nature at recess/lunch pick fruit to eat serve on the school salad bar at breakfast/lunch and use for family night activities. This grant will fund a barrier between the orchard and kikuyu grass which surrounds the orchard completing phase 1 and fund part of phase 2 which includes planting vegetables/fruits between the trees and along the fenceline.

Wildcat Mountain Elementary School

At this time the school would like to enclose the outdoor classroom with an extension of the existing fence to make it more accessible for teachers to incorporate the garden into their curriculum. Along with the classroom enclosure we would also create space for more vegetable beds new perennial beds and a xeriscape bed as well. The added vegetable beds will allow students to grow even more vegetables that can be served in the cafeteria. We hope to add tomato and carrot beds as well.

Wickliffe Progressive Community School

Our goal for this garden is to help teach the children about scientific side of gardening and responsibility. Hands-on learning is a focus at Wickliffe so this aligns with our school mission. Digging deeper the counseling office would use the garden for student engagement and "nature therapy". Some students feel more comfortable talking to adults when they have other things engaging them so the garden would be a perfect metaphor of the growth within the counseling process for the students.

Whitney M. Young Magnet High School

1st we want to encourage lower income residents of our neighboring residential area to have free access to fresh produce that they help to grow. 2nd Empower our students to understand how to plant grow maintain a sustainable garden that can be passed down from class to class. 3rd capture the oral history of resident elders about the foods they used to eat grow those raw materials & have them teach us how to cook their foods and pass on their childhood legacy to our students & community.

White Rock Elementary School

Our goal is to educate families staff children on a community level about healthy eating and nutrition. Our Growing Well with Mercy school program in it's 15th year and is focused on community collaboration in order to foster healthy lifestyles. Combating childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes is our goal. We now have 5 gardens and have a resource guide business plan and mission vision with plan for sustainability. We need additional funding in order to build them in underserved schools.

Wheatley Education Campus

We would like to offer this experiential learning tool to all of our students help them make better food choices in general and create a vibrant and living schoolyard for our children to enjoy.

Westwood Charter Elementary School

This year we are focussing our fundraising efforts on creating the infrastructure for a true and lasting outdoor classroom equipped with places to sit (We currently use hay bales!)and stations for composting seed starting and doing research. To this end we need a shade sail a white board benches food prep station a storage shed etc. This grant will help us reach our goal of creating a designated location for all sorts of outdoor learning at our school.

Westside Global Awareness Magnet

By funding seedlings this grant will enable more teachers and therefore more students to participate in the garden program. With funding we will be able to create compost bins and vermiculture bins for our outdoor classroom. Ideally we envision seasonal harvest parties that feed our school community as well as a fruit tree orchard that provides students with healthy and fresh options.

Westminster Christian Academy

This grant will allow us to demonstrate the importance of locally grown locally sourced food to the students within our school community. It will help us combat the obesity epidemic and will allow us to arm our students with firsthand knowledge of the positive benefits of healthy food choices..The garden goals are three fold: a) educate the students about food grown in the garden b) educate the students about healthy cooking c) involve the community and build good school-community relations.

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