Garden Classrooms

Tesuque Elementary

Tesuque Elementary has a goal to extend the growing season. We want to grow more fresh fruits and vegetables to send home to families living below the poverty level who have limited access to fresh foods.

Tensas Elementary School

Our goal is to establish school gardens where students learn important life skills in multi-discipline areas (science math healthy living and language arts). In addition to gardening skills this project will teach teamwork and good character _ traits like trustworthiness respect fairness caring responsibility and citizenship. The youth will utilize products from the garden consuming vegetables and in some cases participating in a service-learning project to donate to needy families.

Telpochcalli School

We envision an expanded garden which links volunteer parents with classrooms to educate children and the community on gardening and nutrition. Our vision will be accomplished through:.*Building an additional 8 raised beds to accommodate a total of 22 families.*Recruiting/training a team of 3-7 committed garden volunteers.*Educating at least 75 children on gardening cooking and healthy eating.*Conducting 1-2 community harvest events with healthy cooking demonstrations and produce sales

Taos High School

Tierra Lucero's garden goal is to provide effective year-round farming education for students by establishing a programs where near-by schools come to its farm site for hands-on growing opportunities. The grant will go towards developing greenhouse systems that enable this year-round educational model to take place.

Tamaques Elementary School

We want to enhance our nutrition and gardening education program by expanding to a school wide garden where students will learn the benefits of gardening throughout their elementary school experience. Students will be able to utilize the garden for hands on approaches and problem solving techniques in all aspects of their curriculum. This will help promote student and family health and wellness. We want to add a greenhouse additional plantings rainwater harvesting and composting.

Taft Elementary School

We want to expose vegetables to the children in a fun hands-on way that they can take ownership in the process as they learn about nutrition. Our ultimate goal is to demonstrate that healthy well fed children learn better and hope that this educational project can lead to a reduction childhood obesity.

T.H. Slater Elementary School

The goal of the garden program is to grow the already existing intergenerational relationships between the community seniors and students of TH Slater and Price Middle Schools. We would like to enroll more students purchase more supplies and create a weekly workshop for youth and their families. This includes providing meals materials weekly access to the fruits and vegetables and monthly farmer's market set-ups.

Sylvan Rodriguez Jr. Elementary School

Our goal is to improve our composting area and provide storage in the immediate garden area to facilitate planting and maintenance . Our garden is part of our student's curriculum and is utilized for teaching science math literacy and social skills. In our Seed to Plate Nutrition program we plant maintain harvest cook and eat the vegetables we have grown. Families are provided with health/nutrition info through our Wellness Newsletter and activites such as our Family Fitness Night.

Suttons Bay Schools

This grant will allow us to create gardens that are an educational tool and outdoor resource integral to the learning infrastructure of the schools. They will be a fundamental component of everyday learning and will offer interdisciplinary and cross-curricular educational experiences for our students school staff and communities. When the school days are done the gardens will allow us to engage students in our afterschool programs and summer camps through experiential hands-on learning.

Sutton Middle School

One of Sutton Community Garden goals is partnership with the community. Chattahoochee Nature Center Green Bros and Home Depot all helped build the raised beds along with several local boy scout troops. The garden will offer a club open to students and parents to learn about nutrition seasonal plants and healthy meal planning with local chefs. The garden will also become part of the 7th grade life science curriculum. The grant will help with a shed to keep tools locked with composting too.

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