Garden Classrooms

The Little School

The goal of The Little School garden is multi-layered:.1. Provide the basis for an environmental & sustainability program currently being developed by the school..2. Provide additional richness and resources to our curriculum where students can actively participate & learn from the process of growing food from seed to table. .3. Provide fresh produce to Hopelink our community partner and local food bank.

The Lewis School of Princeton

This will allow us to build 3 above-ground garden beds a small shed for tools and to purchase seeds for a salad garden. Weekly nutrition classes at each level will provide children with the opportunity to plant grow tend pick prepare and taste a fresh plant-based snack while studying the benefits of phytonutrients and whole foods. Our children have multiple difficulties and our research/experience show that their developing brains require the benefits of plants to focus and repair.

The Learning Center at Linlee

Our goal is to expand our school garden and extend our growing season to raise a substantial part of the produce consumed by our students. Students learning to grow produce using the proposed aquaponics system will learn about ecosystems biodiversity and the interdependence of organisms. They will have to monitor water quality giving them first hand knowledge of chemistry. They will also learn responsibility in caring for the system.

The King's Daughters' School

This grant will allow us to purchase much needed gardening tools and materials such as soil seeds gloves and various tools. This would in turn allow us to expand our gardening program to include more children in the gardening activities and to grow more fruits and vegetables which provides much needed trade/work experience to our students. Because our students have mental and some physical limitations gardening is a huge self-esteem builder for them and has been a successful program for us!

The Greater Newark Charter School

The Greater Newark Charter School is creating a community garden in the heart of the Central Ward of Newark. Working with Councilman Darrin Sharif Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station The Greater Newark Conservancy Lisa Gray the local tenet association president & local community members we are transforming an abandoned plot into a green oasis where students can learn through inquiry based learning interact with their local community & contribute to the great City of Newark.

The Children's School of Oak Park

The Garden Grant will enable The Children's School to broaden its goal of working with Kindergarten and First Grade children to increase their interest in and knowledge of plants and gardening. The school is currently limited to gardening in a small outdoor space and the grant would bring indoor germination facilities composting and a year round program to our curriculum. Expanding the scope of our gardening program has been perennial desire of the school despite our limited facilities.

The Children's Center @ Red Rocks Community College

The primary goal is to educate children. Another goal is to provide food for the children & families in need associated with the college. The garden expansion will further connect the Children's Center college & its young families many of whom do not have gardening resources. The grant will provide healthy food and expand knowledge and empathy of the children to those in need. Instilling healthy eating habits will impact the children inevitably making a positive impact upon the community.

The Charleston Area Children's Garden Project

The CACGP guides/assists several hundred youth per year in the development of edible gardens from construction phase to harvest promoting physically active and healthy lifestyles. Through hands-on interaction the CACGP teaches the preparation of 'real' food from garden to table in order to foster and set in place lifelong healthy eating patterns and reduce the risk of disease. The CACGP uses the garden as a venue in Title I schools to educate about health nutrition math science & the environment

The Barack Obama Green Charter High School

This grant would allow us to create a sustainable garden using the water that is collected from the roof of our school. Currently we use water from faucets inside reusing rainwater would give the students a greater understanding of sustainability and it would also show them the benefits of stewardship. The garden will be in the front of the property on both sides of the school and be visible proof to the community that sustainable gardening is truly possible.

The Atlanta School

The students' ultimate goal is to create a new component of the garden and maintain the existing area. We would like to plant a tree in the garden and then attach "friendship" leaves created from ceramics by the students to the branches. The leaves would represent the people in our community and school. We would invite our neighbors to attach their own friendship ceramics to the branches as they grow to show how we are all one community. We would also like to plant more flowers & plants.

Pages