Garden Classrooms

William F. Stanley Elementary School

There are many who can benefit from and appreciate the beauty of school gardens but flourishing gardens take years to become well established. Gardens also require a dedicated and knowledgeable gardener to remain useful and beautiful over time. Our goal is to maintain an infrastructure that supports school gardeners over time while maximizing as many avenues of participation for as many participants (students teachers parents cafeteria custodial staff and community volunteers) as possible.

William E. Sheehan Elementary School

Our garden goal is to provide an outdoor educational environment to facilitate sensory connections to the core subjects and active participation in the learning process. The garden will provide opportunities to engage students in hands-on learning that is both meaningful and relevant while contributing to healthier nutritional attitudes and lifestyle. Growing healthy foods promotes healthy eating as well as respect for the food we eat and its origins.

William Cramp Elementary School

HPC plans to assemble and install an indoor growing lab at Cramp to showcase indoor gardening and seed starting techniques in order to enhance the teachers' ability to meet science-based academic standards. Another primary interest of HPC is to provide exposure to the health benefits derived from the garden in both the indoor and outdoor context.

William Burgess Elementary School

We are a downtown elementary school where the vast majority of children live in apartment buildings allowing for very little opportunities to interact with nature. Our garden vision is to develop an interactive natural learning space to be used by students teachers and the community at large. We will do this through creating a vegetable garden in the school courtyard. Teachers have built curriculum plans to involve the whole school in the rich learning opportunities a garden would provide.

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.

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