Garden Classrooms

Shady Grove Elementary School

The garden at Shady Grove Elementary gives our students a chance to learn about biology environmental science and where our food comes from in a hands-on environment. Our schools parents have adopted the garden and have worked to create learning materials for our students to use when they are working in the garden. This collaborative process gives parents and their students a chance to talk about the environment and healthy eating in a safe school environment.

Sentinel Secondary School

The steps towards achieving our goals are:.1. build a greenhouse that is enclosed with a bear-proof fence.2. add solar panels to the greenhouse as funding allows.3. add an aquaponics system to the greenhouse as funding allows.Our goals are to:.1. spread awareness to the school and local communities of the practices/benefits of organically/locally grown food and how it can positively impact the environment.2. donate seedlings to North Shore senior centres schools and community gardens

Searcy County School District

We seek to actively engage children in the process of growing food and arm them with the knowledge of why and how to eat healthfully. Our project highlights gardening both as a type of physical activity and as a way to study the natural world. This grant will make it possible for us to engage more students from our district in this enriching educational experience working with more students from a broader age group to encourage appreciation for healthy eating and healthy lifestyle choices.

Science / Engineering Magnet High School

The goal of the garden program is to expose students to the origin of their food and factors affecting the production of food. There is a veil among urban students between how our food is produced and the food itself. The purpose of a garden is to help lift that veil so that students would see the connection between food production soil management and sustainability and the inherent difficulties/rewards of growing one's own food while applying current scientific knowledge to the process.

School of the Holy Child

The goals of the garden will be to help porvide food for the needy of Westchester; to provide opportunities for academic exploration to our students; to teach our students to be good stewards of the land; and to build an even stronger school community by involving students teachers and parents in a common project.

School District of Bayfield

This year we hope to improve the sandy soil of our garden site and implement a garden plan that uses zones to organize shared garden management crop rotation winter composting and continued soil improvement. With proper soil and garden management we will increase the amount of garden produce used in our cafeteria and show students how much a small space can produce potentially inspiring students to start gardens at home and making an impact on family and community health.

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.

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