Garden Classrooms

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.

Valmonte School (Valmonte Early Learning Academy & Sunrise Preschool)

The Valmonte Children’s Garden is a pesticide-free zone of fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, worm and composting bins, a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat™ for birds and butterflies as well as a sensory garden, all of which will be planted, maintained and harvested with the assistance of our students, teachers, parents and community volunteers. 

Real Food Rising, a program of Utahns Against Hunger

Real Food Rising (RFR) is a community farming program with a youth development core. We use sustainable agriculture to transform the lives of young people and to increase access to healthy food in Salt Lake.

Ursuline Academy of Dallas INC.

The goal of our garden is to teach girls at Ursuline about the importance of eating organic food. We want them to gain awareness about why it is so important in our lives to be as healthy as we can. Many illnesses today are because of that excess of hormones and chemicals in food. Another part of our goal is to get the girls at Ursuline involved. We want the girls to lead the project and be the ones to tend the garden. The grant would be a large help in getting the garden started and established

Upson Lee South Elementary

Our goals are to enrich the students' learning experience foster healthy habits and to imporove social skills and behavior. Through the hands-on nature of gardening students will be able to see the life cycles of plants and develop some understanding of economics. Social skills and behavior will improve as they begin to develop a sense of accomplishment and self-sufficiency that somes from harvesting the fruit of their labor. We desire for our students to watch this project come alive!

University Seventh-day Adventist School

Expanding and renovating the school garddens would allow for more participation within the school's community enabling us to share the increased harvest and to engage the community. Any produce that is not harvested by families within the community would be donated to The Love Kitchen which delivers food to the poor and elderly of Knoxville.

University Place Elementary School

Our program seeks to engage at-risk youth in science nutrition and healthy eating through participation in gardening. We are interested not only in the garden as a teaching tool but also as a source of food for our community. Our program hopes to redefine the way kids think about food and empower them to make better food choices. The grant will help us sustain and grow our program and give it the visibility it needs to garner additional support.

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