Garden Classrooms

Kalispell Public Schools, District No. 5 Flathead County

Kalispell Public Schools and FoodCorps Montana have partnered since 2011 in an effort to connect the approximately 6,000 students in District 5 with real food so they can grow up healthy. We work to achieve this goal through classroom nutrition lessons, garden-based education, and by building a Food Service Program centered on local procurement and healthy, from-scratch cooking.

District 5 currently hosts seven edible gardens and an orchard. Over the next few growing seasons, as the gardens expand, we hope to incorporate more of the harvest into the breakfast and lunch menu. 

Santa Fe Public Schools

Children learn about healthy food and skills to grow their own fruits and vegetables from the school gardens. Earth Care wants to provide additional support to the gardens in the form of larger tools to share and buying resources in bulk. Goals for 2012 are to increase the amount of food provided to the students by implementing longer seasons protecting garden beds during the summer and determining the best plants to grow in Northern New Mexico.

Santa Fe Indian School

The School wishes to add raised beds more fruit trees and to improve upon the outdoor classroom.

Santa Clarita Valley International Charter School

The Whole Foods Grant would allow the facilitators at SCVi to expand the current curriculum into a hands-on experience for children ages K through 10th grade. While science nutrition and mathematics easily translate into an outdoor garden curriculum we hope to expand it into other areas as well such as writing art and reading. This correlates well with our school philosophy of project-based learning.

Sand Point Elementary School

Creating a community where children empower themselves with healthy lifestyle choices rooted in sustainable agricultural practices. The garden program will instruct on best practices in urban agriculture and foster thinking on cultural and socio-economic issues of global and local food cultivation. We hope that by enabling them to share the bounty of their harvest with the community a lifelong commitment to sustainable food growing and healthful eating will hold.

San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity

The goal for our garden is to provide our students with experiential learning in a healthy outdoor setting. The garden will involve all age levels and all curricular area in our school. The harvest from the garden will be used in our school salad bar and to supplement our school food bank distributions. Our students will take some of the harvest home to their families. The remaining harvest will be made available to the community at large along with transplants for home gardens.

San Andreas High School

Our goal is to re-invigorate our gardening program on site. The teacher taking over the program is also the shop/art teacher and will be incorporating building elements for new growing beds work tables seed beds a small greenhouse and revitalizing/stocking the tool shed. We have a decent amount of space for the garden but with a new garden design and study in year-round gardening our food production could increase dramatically and include the entire school in its maintenance and life.

Samuels Elementary School

We have four primary goals for our community garden:.1.Support an organic 'garden to cafeteria' program.2.Incorporate the garden with the school.3.Integration with the community.4.Our first garden is ready for planting in April 2012!.Our garden is in the planning stages so all funds will be directed to actual infrastructure and materials for the garden setup - everything from tools seeds storage etc.

ESYNOLA, Samuel J. Green Charter School

As the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans' founding garden, the growing spaces at Samuel J. Green Charter School wrap around the school, encircling its students with reminders that the natural world inspires curiosity, and that beauty is the language of caring. Whether it's finding a quiet space in the butterfly garden to reflect, keeping an eye on the fruit ripening each day in the side yard orchard, or getting hands in the dirt in the main garden beds, Green's gardens inspire exploration and the sense that something truly wonderful might be just around the corner, or under the next leaf.

Samuel Fels High School

Teach students how to grow their own food by learning how to test soil and plant and maintain a garden..Provide students with opportunities to learn marketing and social skills by selling their produce at the community farmers market.Provide students with opportunities for community service by assisting residents with developing and enriching their gardens.Provide opportunities for community organizations to collaborate in developing student skills.

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