Garden Classrooms

Wilson Community School

The overarching goal that this grant will help make possible is the creation of a large-scale community-owned urban farm on a vacant plot of land that is approximately 40 by 80ft. This area has been designated by the city as an urban greening zone. The plots proximity to our site renders it an excellent opportunity for our scholars to expand their urban agriculture skills while developing something that will have a very significant economic social and cultural impact on the community.

William H. Ray Elementary School

Our goals are to expand the educational value of the garden by installing signs identifying various plants and flowers; build a three-bin compost system to teach children about the process of decomposition and give us the ability to improve the quality of the soil without having to purchase compost regularly; buy growing lights to enable classes to start seedlings indoors; and replenish our supply of tools and garden supplies making it easier for students and volunteers to work in the gardens.

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.

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