Garden Classrooms

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.

Sunrise Elementary School

Our goal is to create a school/community partnership that will sustain a garden for many years at Sunrise Elementary. The grant will allow the garden to get jump-started with funds for materials and irrigation that are necessary in the dry desert climate of the Southwest. Additionally the garden will provide opportunities for school/community partnerships by engaging parents and providing the opportunity for families to sample fresh produce.

Sun Valley Montessori Early Learning Center

Mile High Montessori has 6 sites with the opportunity to garden. Some sites have gardens that are not integrated into the program some sites have no garden. Our hope is to provide a gardening experience at each location that allows students to learn about vegetables and gardening to enhance their awareness of healthy food where it comes from and that the students can have a role in providing the food. The grant will offer family involvement as well as education around a gardening theme.

Summer in the City Program at Ford LaSalle Park

The garden goal is to implement a sustainable rain catchment system at each of our garden sites. This will improve our ability to ensure that our garden is adequately watered and this will also improve our ability to engage community stakeholders at the garden. We would also like to improve the heat retention and extend our gardening season in our Pocket Park located on our campus. This will also allow us to create a food demonstration and work space.

Stuart Middle School

Our short-term goal is to reclaim maintain and possible expand the existing garden area in order to provide a variety of produce to the Stuart Middle School students and staff. The grant would provide us with funds to cover start-up costs as well as expenses associated with our long-term goal of maintaining and developing a self-sustaining garden that could produce indefinitely. Eventually we would like to supply our school's culinary arts program with produce from our garden.

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