Garden Classrooms

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.

Stony Point South

We would like to inspire our students to grow some of their food and to live a more healthy and sustainable life. Many of our students and families face financial challenges that force them to move frequently. Many live in small apartments without yards. We would like to use a combination of garden beds and container gardens to show our students what is possible even with limited space and resources.

Stony Creek Elementary School

The garden at Stony Creek Elementary one garden within the Wissahickon Garden Program. The program seeks to create a holistic tangible paradigm shift in our learning community towards sustainable "green" living healthy eating and mindful consumption of our food. This vision permeates our entire community from our administration teachers students staff and our community. Through our unified action in this program we seek to educate model and live the concept of "greener learning".

STEPHEN T MATHER HIGH SCHOOL

A Whole Kids grant will help the Greenhouse Club add an outdoor raised bed garden with five 4x8' beds including at least one accessible bed suitable for motility-challenged gardeners. Goals for the project are to teach young people about gardening inspire them to grow their own food involve them in the local gardening community and teach them about food issues including food safety source and security.

Stephen F. Austin High School

Our goals is for our students to take interest in creating a better garden that will help in the needs of helping others that are in need. Also for them to learn hands on experience.

Steep Falls School

The goal of the school gardens is to teach students where their food comes from and how to grow it sustainably. The gardens serve as outdoor learning labs where students can learn through hands-on experiences that draw on a variety of subject matter. The food grown is used for taste testings in the school lunch program and in health classes thus improving the nutritional quality of the food as well as making healthy eating appealing. Produce is also donated to local food pantries.

Stanley Hupfeld Academy at Western Village

The kids loved fresh food especially if they helped grow it. We want to enlarge the garden and expand the number of students involved to include the entire school. The garden will be incorporated in methods of education for every subject. .This is a low income neighborhood and any food not used at the school will be given to the families of our students. There are already family members volunteering to help with the garden. This school supports other local programs that benefit the kids.

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