Garden Classrooms

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.

University of Chicago Charter School- Carter G. Woodson Campus

It is our goal to create a learning garden for our students that will teach and reinforce gardening concepts. We hope that the creation of this garden will help to bring our community together towards a common goal.

University City High School

Our garden goal is to renovate an existing greenhouse space in University High School to bolster the daytime science curriculum at the school with a hands-on learning experience and also to support the half acre outdoor school garden throughout the year. We plan to engage a dynamic team of high school students teacher university professors and students to design and implement the renovation project as well as to integrate the greenhouse into the academics of the school.

Unity Charter School

With this grant we will rebuild our garden in our new school location. We will build raised garden beds for each classroom to plant and maintain lay fencing purchase seeds and plants and build a rain garden which will prevent soil erosion. Sitting adjacent to our playground students and parents will enjoy this peaceful green space as the school is located in an industrial area.

Union Elementary School

Goals include: Sustainability; Education- Conservation and community awareness; Environment and food and eco systems; duty to serve- community awareness. Goal accomplishment includes an introduction to organic gardening. As a educational tool gardening will sprout new opportunities for students to cultivate healthy eating habits; learn about topics like sustainability and conservation food systems and community awareness and an appreciation for food from seed to plate.

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