Garden Classrooms

The Renaissance Charter School

Agriculture class is offered to 11th & 12th graders. With the additional developed space we will be able to offer a gardening experience to all of our students. Our goal is to teach sustainable farming. A long term goal would be to have our students participate in the local green market run by Grow NYC. We are also partnering with The Green Agenda a component of the Jackson Hts. Beautification Group to allow for more community involvement through summer volunteers and gardening mentors.

The Parish Childrens School DBA The Parish School

The Parish School exists to rehabilitate children who have language and learning differences. Teachers use a multi-sensory approach designed to help children who have trouble processing information and expressing themselves through language. The Parish School would love to build a sustainable community garden which would serve as an integrated outdoor learning center as well as offer students an opportunity to learn about organic gardening nutrition and health in a sensory integrated fashion.

The Paradise Valley Private School Foundation dba Tesseract School

Our primary goal is to foster student curiosity about gardening. Gardens on the Go is based on having students develop experiments and experiences about gardens that relate directly to what they are learning in the classroom. Each classroom will purchase two garden wagons which will be used as mobile gardens facilitating scientific exploration and assessment as well as produce production. This grant would fund the program and would facilitate learning about gardening in our desert climate.

The Ogden International School of Chicago

We would like to build a vertical hanging garden on the rooftop of our school. The students will grow flowers plants and vegetables to help beautify the school and serve as an outdoor classroom. We will donate all fruits and vegetables we grow to the local food bank.The Woolly School Garden is a hanging vertical garden that is 6'x 18' and consists of fifty breathable felt pockets made from recycled post-consumer plastic bottles.

The Neighborhood School

The garden goal is to boost and augment what we already have--most of what we have is entirely maintained on a voluntary basis with donated plants and vegetables. This grant would help us do more to create a high-quality gardening space for our students and our community.

The Neighborhood Center Inc.

Our primary goal for gardening is the development of healthy children in our community of Camden by teaching them to make better lifestyle choices. Childhood obesity has been declared to be epidemic in the city of Camden; 40% of children and teens in the city are obese or overweight as opposed to the national average of 21%. We plan to achieve our goal through educating families about growing and preparing healthy foods through participation in our gardening program and cooking classes.

The Mount Washington School

Our goal is to build a thriving hands-on sustainable cross-curriculum program that involves every student attending our school. The Mount Washington School is striving to become a model and mentor for other public and private schools. In order to do this we will always be thinking progressively stay connected to new and existing partners and continue to focus on enhancing the student learning experience.

The Montessori School

The grant would allow the school to transform our cold frame into a usable greenhouse. Our ultimate goal is to use solar energy to power the greenhouse fan and heating units and at a future date incorporate the use of a cistern for water collection. This would help the children realize the benefit of alternative energy and water efficiency.

The Meher Schools

Our goals include reinforcing for our students the interconnectedness of all life and working together for a common goal. Our produce is served for snack and sold to parents. The proceeds are used for the garden. We plan to collaborate with the Huckleberry Cafe (Lafayette) give surplus to the Food Bank and local homeless shelters. Grant funds will be used for equipment supplies and curriculum materials. Our garden has the potential to embrace many individuals and programs as we move forward.

The McGillis School

Our goal is to ensure longevity of the garden and foster integration with school curriculum. The grant would support acquisition of: 1) tools and tool storage; and 2) materials for indoor and winter growing. Currently working in the garden requires tools from elsewhere reducing the ease with which teachers and classes can engage with the garden. With our short growing season curriculum integration requires materials that integrate indoor and winter growing with the garden.

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