Garden Classrooms

Triangle Elementary School

We are a Title I school with 82 percent of our students on free-or-reduced lunch. For many of our students the meals they eat at school are their most nutritious of the day. Our goal for the garden is very simple - feed our children nutritious food. As they tend the garden we hope our students will learn the value of growing their own food the nutritional value of the food and of course the end result: that it tastes good and is good for you.

Torah Day School of Atlanta

It has become clear that edible gardening can empower and inspire students to understand appreciate and value their environment. Our mission is clear- to educate and motivate our students our families and the surrounding community to develop lifelong habits of healthful eating and environmental responsibility. The grant will enable us to purchase more supplies and continue this educational project allowing us to include more of the greater community in our endeavor.

Tokeneke School

Our goal is to promote learning by integrating classroom education with hands-on experience. Food and garden based activities will be interwoven with grade level curriculum. Students teachers and families will be growing harvesting preparing and sharing the food as a community. Receiving a grant from Whole Foods Kids foundation will ensure we can build and maintain our garden to reach our goals.

Timber Trace Elementary

The grant will expand our existing small classroom garden to provide fresh vegetables for students to enjoy in the cafeteria. The garden will also be used as an outdoor learning center. It is an interactive way to integrate the science of agriculture and nutritional education into the elementary curriculum while promoting healthy diet choices. Our students will work with the community members to establish partnerships and build future leaders.

Tillamook Junior High

Our goal is to strengthen our community through increased self-reliance and volunteer engagement by involving teachers students their families and community in garden food production nutrition education and food system educational activities. We will enhance and maintain two school gardens increasing production and access to local food. Infrastructure and systems will be upgraded and created. We will acquire necessary tools and supplies to increase and sustain community engagement.

Tierrasanta Elementary School

The goal of the proposed project is to expand the number and types of gardens at TES to allow all students an opportunity to participate in and learn from a variety of activities centered on the gardens. Hands-on experiences are a powerful tool for teaching as well as reinforcing fundamental principles taught in the classroom every day. The lessons learned by nurturing a garden and enjoying the fruit of their labor will be carried beyond the school yard and into the homes of each student.

Thomson-McDuffie Middle School

The gardens will teach students how they can grow their own food and help support their families. The vegetables can be given to a local food bank that provides a free meal to families in this community. Some of the students receive meals from the food bank so by using what they learn at school at home they can help the community as well. The teacher would also like to use the gardens to help start a farm to school program.

Thomas J. Waters Elementary School

Waters Elementary School (a Chicago Public School) serves over 600 students from many different ethnicities, cultures and economic levels, the majority of which are from minority and low-income families.  For most schools, exposing children to ecological studies is simply not in the budget.  However, for nearly 20 years Waters has been dedicated to making environmental responsibility a priority, as we belive that learning about the environment is as necessary as reading and math.

Thomas Hamilton Elementary School

Our garden goal is to teach students and their parents how to garden in an urban setting how to provide nutritious foods on a budget and the linkages between good nutrition and school success.

Thomas G. Morton Elementary School

HPC plans to complete an outdoor raised-bed garden for Morton Elementary. The main goal of our garden effort is to showcase the health benefits derived from the garden which include nutrition from fresh produce and exercise from activities like garden work to both the school and community.

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