Garden Classrooms

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.

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The garden goal for Washington Elementary is to continue the incredible success the garden has had for students and families as well as the integration with Beach Cities Health District to help promote nutritional education together with a working garden environment to teach students about healthy eating and sustainability of our environment. Students who may not otherwise have access to gardening experience have real opportunity through Washington Elementary's garden program.

Wasatch Community Gardens (host institution)

Our goal is to increase healthy eating habits and crucial food growing skills of students in our after school program City Roots and our newest field trip program Growing Greens. Both programs will engage students in hands-on garden-based learning in our two youth gardens. The grant will enable us to focus on Title 1 schools and students with limited access to fresh healthy food.

Warren Township High School No. 121

The garden project was such a success we now want to expanded it by purchasing building and furnishing a greenhouse. The special education students will continue to learn about gardening year round that will help them in their life skills. With a greenhouse they will be able have more plants to take care of to help them with their continued learning to live independently and to work in the community.

Warren CUSD #205

We would like to educate kids about healthier food choices to help combat the obesity problem in our county. Also to eat what we grow and to give to our food pantry. Science labs dry the gourds and make birdhouses. All H.S. students/scouts etc. get community service hours for working in the garden. Preschoolers started the marigold plants from seeds. Homec classes made zucchini breads for the staff as well as canning tomatoes etc. We had cherry tomatoes in our lunch line.

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