Garden Classrooms

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.

Vestal Elementary School

Every garden needs certain essentials to thrive. Our garden needs soil amendments and a part time garden coordinator. In it's first two years the garden had an Americorps volunteer that worked with a OSU nutrition specialist to bring harvests from the garden into the classroom. This grant will enable provide our garden with amendments soil and a part time garden coordinator to bring students and classrooms into the garden.

Venice High School

The goal of The Learning Garden to bring the knowledge of plants - organic horticulture herbology fiber arts healthy nutrition culinary arts permaculture etc -- back to the people. The Learning Garden is a hands on outdoor classroom for both the high school and the community offering classes year round 7 days a week. The grant will enable the garden to be open on weekends for community students wanting to perform service hours and more gardening classes.

Velma Linford Elementary School

The mission of Linfords Garden Club is: To provide our students with authentic learning experiences in a natural and supportive setting. Students will contribute to their community and development of self-efficacy through their participation in the Linford Garden Club. Our goal is to have the Woolly School Garden serve as our hands-on indoor classroom and to give our students the opportunity to grow food for themselves and their families regardless of our short growing season.

Van Buren Middle School

This grant will allow us to increase our garden area and revamp it so that we may grow food for our students and our community. The grant will pay for organic soil tools and building materials and provide an inclusive space for science math and after-school lessons. We will collaborate with our Student Based Health Clinic (SBHC) and Teen Outreach Program (TOP). We will grow herbs and vegetables supplied by a local Native American seed bank and other sources and cook for our community.

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