Garden Classrooms

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.

South Shore Charter Public School

Our school does not have a kitchen so any bought lunches are catered from outside school. This includes our free and reduced lunches. Because food is not cooked on-site there are rarely fresh vegetables with the lunches. Many children also do not have fresh produce in their snacks or lunches from home. We would like to provide students with fresh vegetables with their snacks or lunches. This grant would let us fix up the existing gardens and buy seeds and plants to grow and feed to the kids.

South Pointe High School

100% of the students in the class will increase knowledge and awareness about where the source of their food comes from and the concept of sustainability as measured by pre/post surveys every nine weeks. ..The grant will allow the school to become apart of the community engaging in true service learning. The service learning project presents a unique and enriching learning and personal growth experience for students while strengthening the community by addressing an unmet community need.

South Loop School

The school garden goal is to enhance and enrich the educational lives of our students through this project-based learning. It will offer the opportunity for students to become stewards of the earth experience healthy organic food integrate all learning disciplines and understand natural systems. The grant will help nurture community spirit build relationships as well as connect students school staff families and community around this project.

South Hiram Elementary School

This grant would allow the elementary school to create a large garden area of approximately 527 square feet providing vegetables and flowers with room for each grade to have its own space. Our area of rural Maine has a very short growing season. Designing a garden with raised beds that can be more easily sheltered from early frosts and cold frames would allow students to participate in seed starting and harvests while in school. The garden would also be an integral part of the curriculum.

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