Garden Classrooms

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.

Southside Elementary School

This will allow us to continue our Teaching Garden for next year's first and second graders and expand planting to include all grade levels..Our goal is that the children learn on an experiential level about growing food from seed and then preparing and eating what they grow as they learn about different varieties of vegetables that are easy to grow in the Florida climate. We will expand teaching into soil chemistry for specific plants and be able to have worm bins for nutrient rich soil.

Southern Pines Primary School

This grant will be used to create FirstSchool Gardens' first Educational Production Garden an extension of a pre-existing school garden in Southern Pines North Carolina. This project will be used as an after school garden program for a number of pre-existing childcare programs in the community including the school. Building on the success of the school's smaller garden the extension will allow for a more intensive seed to market program and increase fresh produce access amongst participants.

Southeast Middle School

The installation of a school garden and compost program will encourage the students to be outside and active while they strengthen and challenge their critical thinking team building and problem solving skills. The garden will be an instrument that can be used to teach the students about their local food economy and its impact awareness of vegetables and fruits and planting cycles healthier meal choices which can influence dietary changes.

Southampton Union Free School District

1.Provide a planning and learning experience through a curriculum we hope to obtain..2. Increase the yield to provide produce to all 3 schools in the district..3. Encourage a more sustainable way of living in our community. .The grant money will enable all our students and faculty to have an enriched learning experience. This exposure will help them learn how to grow more produce for lunches while encouraging similar practices at home. A tool shed is needed to protect our inventory.

South Winneshiek Community School District

This grant will help the district expand and beautify the elementary/middle high school gardens. For the elementary school/middle school garden protective fencing and arches will be purchased. For the high school garden another raised bed will be built and high school shop students will build 3-4 benches out of lumber to go around the beds. In addition manure will be bought from a local farmer. Finally produce will be used by food service staff and teachers for student education & eating.

South Valley Academy

Goals for the garden project are to integrate more gardening activities into the school curriculum continue to serve more produce from the garden in the school lunch program and continue to support the summer gardening program.

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