Garden Classrooms

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.

Virginia Shuman Young Elementary School

Garden The goal of this grant is to expose urban public school children to a hands-on gardening project. . .The project provides elementary age children in downtown Fort Lauderdale with the experience of creating and caring for a framed fruit vegetable and herb garden...The objectives of the project include developing an appreciation and love for healthy foods comprehending how vegetables and herbs grow learning how to safely use garden tools learning how to be responsible

Village Community School

Our goal is to extend the planting season in both the fall and spring. We are hoping to build a hoophouse so that we can continue to plant during the winter months and put plants in the group early in the spring. We are also hoping to purchase a light cart so that we can start seeds growing inside during the spring.

Vienna Elementary School

Our goal is to teach our children where food comes from how to grow it and how to integrate more fruits and vegetables in their diet. We strive to teach that eating in a more healthful sustainable way is not difficult. Our town recently purchased a piece of land that is adjacent to our school and behind out local WF. The town has given us permission to use this land to create an educational garden. The grant will allow us to farm a little piece of land in a prominent location in our community

Veterans' Memorial Elementary School

The grant is part of an effort to build learning gardens in five elementary schools weaving the schools into Gloucester's growing sustainable food system. The goal is to build a garden and establish it so that a district wide coordinator can maintain it and teachers and students feel comfortable interacting with it as a hands-on learning tool. Teachers and students will see the garden as a natural extension of their classroom and school environment.

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