Garden Classrooms

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.

Walter Bracken Magnet Empowerment School for Math and Science through Technology

We would like to start the Woolly School Garden program our school. Our goal is to have the vertical garden as an additional hands-on outdoor classroom to give our students the opportunity to grow food for themselves & their families. Using the curriculum lessons provided by Woolly School Gardens & 4-H students will learn how to grow their own food. This grant will allow us to have fresh healthy food to use in the school kitchen and salad bar & for the kids to take home to their parents.

Walgrove Elementary

Our goal is to construct a shade structure in the garden. We would like to conduct outdoor classes for the students to learn about nutrition growing crops composting vermiculture and the biology of plants and animals. In addition we would like to provide a public space for the community to have cooking classes gardening education on native plants as well as other events.

Waldwick High School

We currently have an operational CSA on our high school campus which integrates students teachers parents and community members. The students who directly manage the garden through our internship program desire to establish a field trip component for the younger elementary students in our district. Through the on-site field trip program our high school students would educate the younger students regarding healthy eating habits organic gardening and environmental sustainability.

Waldorf Association of Lawrence DBA Prairie Moon Waldorf School

Grant will enable the Okanis Garden at Prairie Moon to extend its program further into the Lawrence community by offering educational programming in organic and biodynamic gardening and seed saving. The school will construct a greenhouse in early 2012 and expand its relationship with a local United Way program called "Summer of Service" for junior and senior high students. Production of garden products will increase allowing the school to develop a CSA as well as continue to supply local stores.

VOICE Charter School of New York

Our goal is to start and maintain a garden that will give our Upper Campus students (3rd grade and up) hands-on experience with the many aspects of a garden ecosystem. Our plan is to create curricular connections as in this application. Our students have little opportunity to experience nature and more specifically the relationship between the environment plants food and health. We hope to eventually provide our cafeteria with fresh produce from our own garden.

Vista Grande High School

Tierra Lucero's garden goal is to provide farm education to youth at nearby schools at its farm site. The grant would help make this educational opportunity available year round by supporting costs involved with a 4 season greenhouse unit. The larger goal in teaching youth about food production would be to help increase youth's involvement in their well-being by giving them hands-on experiences and skills that enable them to improve their health through growing and preparing nutritious foods.

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