Garden Classrooms

West Suburban Montessori School

Our goal is to be able to find the funds to continue our seedling activities in early Spring to be able to afford the supplies we need to have a prolific vegetable garden and vegetable food tastings for our children. We would like to be able to share what we are doing with our community as well. Our community will benefit by our example and we will be educating our young children about sustainability agriculture responsibility caring patience healthy living and healthy eating.

West Parish Elementary School

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days.

West New York Public School #4

The School #4 Wellness Garden provides a unique outdoor learning environment for students and teaching staff. Main purpose and goals are to: Introduce students to the science of agriculture and to teach them how to care for living things; Help students understand where food comes from and the importance of knowing the nutritional value of the food they eat; and Encourage students staff parents and community members to take pride in a successful community project.

West Hill Elementary School

Recently there has been a walkway created surrounding the school. I would like to beautify the "concrete" and bring back the nautral environment to the students. The students would be able to maintain a garden as well as connecting to the school. We would create a flower garden and butterfly garden for beauty and nature as well as a pioneer garden for learning. This project will be in addition to the revitilzation of the nature trail. My goal is to reconnect students with nature.

West High School

Our goal with our garden is to continue expanding and draw more of the student body into involvement and learning with the garden. We hope to incorporate the garden into the daily lives of more students and use it to teach about healthy eating sustainable development and the importance of sustainability and environmental knowledge in an urban environment.

West End Middle School

To engage 430 students in an outdoor educational setting teach them about gardening sustainability making healthy food and life choices and the importance of community and service. Well fill backpacks for students to take home on weekends to ensure students who dont have access to fresh healthy food dont go hungry and have something nourishing. Our goal is to help solve hunger and food insecurity issues in our community.

West Central Community School

This garden will be utilized by food service staff for the school lunch program by teachers for enhancing classroom curriculum and by parents students and community members as a source of gardening food and nutrition education. The garden will be the subject of various science lessons team building lessons and foods lessons as well as a supplement to many other classroom lessons. Experiments will be conducted food preservation methods taught and work ethics reinforced.

Weir Mitchell Elementary School

HPC plans to assemble and install an indoor growing lab at Mitchell 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.

Weilenmann School of Discovery

Our Science and Outdoor teachers are interested in incorporating a garden with their curriculum. This will help the children learn about sustainability and what it means to eat and grow locally. We feel that they will then continue that circle in our community.

Washington High School

The goal of the garden is to create a sustainable environment with as many facets/Departments of the school as possible. Garden club will grow fruits and vegatables / culinary department will make a product to sell / Art department will design logo / marketing and business department will market the product and sell / Money that is generated would continue to be put into the community to educate on nutrition and possible to help fund students education in nutrition hortaculture permaculture.

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