Garden Classrooms

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.

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.

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