Garden Classrooms

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.

Westminster Avenue Elementary School

Our goal is to build a Kitchen Shed to expand our limited cooking facilities. Our mission is twofold: to instill in our students a sense of responsibility for our planet and to help students create healthy eating habits. To that end we cook in the garden weekly using produce grown by the students. We plan to install solar panels on the roof of the shed for our electrical needs and rain barrels to use for non-potable purposes. We will use the Kitchen Shed for school & community purposes.

Westerville North High School

Our raised bed gardens (hoop houses) will serve as a model for our community. By incorporating hoop houses and fresh vegetables into our existing science curriculum we will enhance our science courses with real-world applications. Our international students will educate our students and community through with native food crops. We will demonstrate the potential of using season extension techniques so that students learn that gardening is not limited to the traditional summer months.

Western High School

By participating in the garden students will be able to learn science concepts as well as learn leadership team building problem solving communication and critical thinking skills. We also hope to develop future gardeners in that students will take home the skills from our project to create their own home gardens. We would also like to have a community source for fresh produce that will help make for healthier food choices as well as offer economic assistance through food pantry donations.

Westchester Hills School 29

Our goal is to develop richer interactive garden experiences for the economically disadvantaged and autistic children at School 29. We will expand educational opportunities by providing garden supplies and by constructing trellises which will increase the amount of produce in the 13 raised beds. Garden harvests will be used in raw lunches such as salads which will be prepared by students. Finally we will buy worm farms to teach students about composting and waste management.

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