Garden Classrooms

South Elementary School

South Elementary's goal for this garden project is to bring children of various ages together to work towards a common purpose. Children will benefit from working cooperatively developing a new respect for growing things and learning that a garden can be a source of beauty as well as food. Working in the garden will promote social skills problem solving and an appreciation for healthy living among our school community.

Sope Creek Elementary

The new Children's Learning Garden will have several raised beds a greenhouse outdoor classroom compost area and storage space. Pollinating flowers vegetables herbs and fruits will be planted. The greenhouse will extend the amt of time the teachers will have to teach in the garden and increase the success of each harvest. The garden will enhance the children's education by providing a place for science experiments and for learning math nutrition art and social studies all in one place.

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

There are several goals of our garden. The garden has several educational goals. They are to teach sustainability to provide a hands-on experience in teaching on the subjects of nature vegetation and the environment and to create a living classroom that can be adopted for a multitude of subjects including math science and art. As a Jewish school the presence of the garden have given students an ability to witness creation and teach a respect for life and nature.

So. Royalton Elementary/High School

Community collaboration in student gardening & processing is our overall goal plus curricula enhancement & grounds beautification. We will enable students to make healthy choices; from the activities they choose to the foods they eat. Kindergarteners will have edible sensory gardens and second graders with 3-sisters gardens (corn beans squash have symbiotic relationships/Native American origin). This project is a logical sequence linking initiatives with partners to achieve common goals.

Smith Elementary School

The primary goal of the garden is to help students eat better. This grant will make it possible for the garden to produce healthy (and health-producing) fruits and vegetables. The grant will help to create an outdoor classroom where students can learn the importance of good food. The grant funds will be used to build a hoop-house so the students can grow in the garden year-round. This grant money will enable us to enhance the community by providing a beautiful productive and positive garden.

SMCISD School Age Pregnant and Parenting Program also Child Development Cente

Our gardening goal is to expand our gardening to include gardening in the active playarea. There would be 3 raised beds and areas to interact in the area. Our playground is adjacent to an area of our community with limited resources. Our neighbors access our area often outside of the educational day to develop family time.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie School

We would like to expand our garden so that more students can benefit from the learning experiences that a garden can provide..This year the garden allowed for a few classes to use the kale and sage in a Sprouting Chefs cooking program. Futhermore sunflowers added interest to the school grounds and another class harvested the garden from the summer veggies and herbs..The grant will allow us to build one or two new garden beds. Right now we only have one raised garden bed (12x4 feet cedar).

Silver Spur Elementary

Edible Education program for PreK - 5.  Garden Docent and Garden Teacher lead lesson for every class.  Weekly rotations by grade level.  Teaching standards based lessons in the Outdoor Classroom.  

Silver Lakes Middle School

The grant will allow for expansion of a fruit tree garden at another Broward County School continued growth in partnerships and valuable education to students about gardening as well as the value of locally grown fruit (produce) increasing horticulture - related skills and the valuable of fruit in maintaining a balanced healthy nutritious diet. Many hands-on gardening and education skills will be delivered to students to promote the need for locally grown food sources.

Shining Rivers Waldorf School

Shining Rivers Waldorf School's focus of our edible schoolyard is to provide educational experiences for our students where they have their hands in the dirt and eat their harvest. The project is also evolving into a Community Supported Agriculture program in order to grow a production garden and finance a permanent part-time Gardens Keeper position for the school to coordinate the gardens and teach classes. This grant will help us to integrate gardening into the everyday life of our school

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