Garden Classrooms

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.

Tyler Elementary School

Tyler Elementary School is very excited to continue the message of CATACH by crearing a School Garden. Many students and teachers are interested in teaching the community about increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and how to begin to grow a community garaden. CATCH promotes eating "5 a day" and just like the fruit and veggie bar at the school we couldn't think of a better way to bring fresh produce to this 70% free and reduced lunch school. Families are very supportive and excited!

Two Eagle River School

School gardens provide a place for experiential education outside the classroom. Students gain ownership and eagerly anticipate seeing how fruits and vegetables grow. The goal of the garden is to reinforce what students learn in the classroom through math science art and language. The garden will provide healthy snacks for student during the summer session and when students return in the fall.

Tule Elk Park Early Education School

Tule Elk Project provides a vegetable garden and a garden educator to the school to establish healthy food habits from the earliest age possible in a low-income community. Our objective is to expose children to healthy living and good eating habits who otherwise may not have the means to grow food or afford natural foods. We aim to combat obesity and the "disconnect" urban children have from the natural world by teaching them where real food comes from and share the joy of watching it grow!

Tryon Elementary School

This grant money will help to strengthen the current gardening program a great deal. It will enhance the experience for the students involved and greatly expand educational opportunities related to the garden both for the students enrolled in the gardening program and the school at large.The beds are in desparate need of repair and the soil quality is poor. We hope to also reach volunteers and parents strengthening the school community and the sustainability of the school garden program.

Truro Central

Our goal expands the biochar project by adding 5 beds and composting.Students will have the opportunity to do hands-on science to see how plants grow when you add biochar to the soil and its role in helping to slow global warming.The school would benefit from the creation of a sustainable outdoor laboratory.The project would lead to exposure of the benefits of biochar within the community and the benefits of adopting biochar strategies Cape-wide as a sustainable way to enhance soil fertility.

Trimble Local School District (TLS)

13. These grants will make it possible for the youth and residents in the Trimble and Nelsonville communities learn self-sufficiency skills concerning their food supplies. Specifically re-skilling primary and secondary grade students will empower our youth to become a long term solution to the hunger and health issues plaguing our region create familial and community food security and _green

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