Garden Classrooms

Thomas Edison Elementary School

This year we implemented a new life skill program for students ages 8-11. We hope this garden will provide a setting that enables communication social interaction and working towards a common goal. Additionally we hope this garden is the setting to conduct therapies that students require in a productive way that builds real life application into the work.

Theodore Roosevelt School

The goal of this grant is to purchase supplies for the garden including tools seeds and fertilizer. In addition funds will be used to support soil amendments. We will also purchase and erect fencing around the garden to keep out animals. Students will work in the garden and with the program team to bring produce from the garden into the cafeteria. Our goal is to engage all students particularly those living in dormitories onsite in the garden project to make it productive and sustainable.

The Winston School

We would like to expand our garden. We need a fence around it and some additional landscaping to make it larger.

The William S. Baer School

Our students do not learn through traditional teaching methods. They require direct individualized intervention provided through many different modalities. Our organic garden would be fully wheelchair accessible and adaptive to all the needs of our boys and girls. A vast majority of our students live below the poverty level so they simply do not have access or ability to have their own garden. The school garden would provide an enriching learning experience for all 240 students.

The Waterford School

The mission of the Waterford Community Garden is to to enhance life on the Waterford campus by growing fruit vegetables and flowers for consumption by the Waterford community and donation to charities while educating the members of the community and utilizing our resources in a sustainable manner. This garden grant will help us build more useful and safe tool storage purchase a second wheelbarrow and develop a better system for staking tomatoes.

The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara

This grant will allow our students to revitalize and nurture a children's garden from which they will prepare eat and share fresh organic food in the context of a working organic farm. Holistic experiences in the garden will deepen their academic and artistic studies. With these funds we will purchase seed hoses and garden tools and offset water costs. Thus with a thriving garden we can create a demonstration site for active collaboration between local farms and local schools.

The University of Chicago Charter School North Kenwood/Oakland Campus

The revitalization of the NKO garden started with the idea of showing students where their vegetables come from and promoting healthy eating habits. Many of these students do not have equal access to fresh vegetables and urban gardening and we want to foster a love of both through getting them involved in a school garden. This grant will provide money to build additional beds and a small greenhouse and allow us to involve the entire school and the after-school program.

The Sunshine School

The grant will be used to install two raised organic garden beds to provide hands-on learning experiences for children ages 1-5 years old. The gardens will be incorporated in the preschool curriculum to teach children about nutrition environmental awareness and working together as a team. The garden curriculum will also be used to ensure students achieve appropriate developmental benchmarks in science social studies math literacy social skills health and safety and motor skills.

The Shlenker School

Our goal is to establish an early appreciation in students for the connection between healthy eating and a healthy body. The garden will offer an opportunity to integrate numerous secular studies and health curriculum into a co-operative and engaging setting. The grant will make it possible to purchase needed garden tools install water barrels for capturing rain water establish additional raised vegetable gardens and contribute our harvest to our local food pantry.

The School District of Jenkintown

Our school garden: a place where students will learn about biology through observation and discovery. There will be space to grow fruit and vegetables as well as flowers to attract bees. Composters and a rain barrel will demonstrate conservation. The High School Environment teacher will focus on native plants and soil health. Special Education will also participate. We expect that the kids will connect with science and nature in a new and exciting way.

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