Garden Classrooms

St. Thomas the Apostle School

It is our goal to use this grant in three ways. First we would like to switch the entryways on our two green house windows. Currently the space is wasted because the windows open the wrong way. Greenhouse windows would allow more preseason planting. Next we would use the funds to afford tools and organic materials to make our garden more productive. Finally we would like to have speakers and experts work with in areas of garden planning and a more school-wide composting effort.

St. Peter School

We want to emphasize to our students that we are all stewards of the planet and we should do our part to promote sustainable lifestyles. Part of our commitment is to grow our own food using natural methods. Through this program we will promote good nutrition habits and see real-life examples of plant growth and reproduction which will reinforce our science and health curriculums. We will share our bounty with the community through our food pantry which is run by our St. Vincent Society.

St. Pauls Elementary School

Our community though rural and farm-based has limited access to locally-grown produce and healthy food preparation. Therefore this garden team aims to expose our students to vegetables which are most likely not available in their homes. They will discover their origins of these fresh foods and learn to prepare them in healthy ways while cultivating a healthier lifestyle. We hope this dialog about healthy eating will benefit the entire community as well as our children.

St. Matthews Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to integrate school-grown vegetables into school lunch service by supplementing the district's _Farm to School

St. Luke AME Sunday School

Our goal is to improve the quality of life for neighborhood families with a strong focus on youth produce nutritious food reduce family food budgets beautify the neighborhood stimulate social interaction create income opportunities and stimulate economic development.

St. Coleman School

Our garden goals include: teaching our students where their food originates; the importance of maintaining healthy eating habits and a healthy lifestyle; and the feeling of responsibility in creating and maintaining a school garden. This grant would allow us the opportunity to educate our children on the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle and truly connecting with our environment. All of our students will take part in this special project. They will have a true connection to our garden.

Sprucecourt

The grant will increase our capacity to offer curriculum linked lessons in the garden by supporting the research development and testing of new lessons. The culinary side of our programming is underdeveloped and we are always looking for portable and replicable garden-based culinary activities. All activities will be tested more than once with different grade levels and uploaded to our website when we are satisfied with the replicability of the activity.

Springhill Lake Elementary

We now have a garden committee made up of 10 staff members dedicated to get this garden afloat. These staff members want to teach students the importance of gardening the responsibility of maintaining a garden integrating all subjects with gardening and the modeling their positive fruits of their labor. These gardens will help feed students healthy vegetables and fruits fresh off the vine (which is a first for some students) and hopefully inspire our students to create gardens of their own.

Springfield Public Schools

The genH Healthy Seeds School Garden Program connects children with the source of their food introduces them to new flavors and textures provides them with physical activity at school and allows teachers to expand their math science and reading curriculum from the classroom to real world situations. Depending on the time of year students plant a variety of fruits vegetables and herbs. The program also provides a follow-up curriculum to the teachers about nutrition and health science.

Spring Garden Waldorf School

The school is moving toward a broad gardening program. A new Gardening Coordinator has begun teaching students to test the soil decide which crops will be most successful in this region learn what plants need discover how to plant and understand how to harvest. A planned greenhouse will allow us to expand the existing curriculum enhance learning and expose our students to important scientific environmental and agricultural concepts. This grant will help purchase greenhouse supplies.

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