Garden Classrooms

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.

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.

Pages