Garden Classrooms

Sam Houston High School

United Way would like to work with a local Title I high school Sam Houston and integrate a garden into their STEM-aligned magnet school (Science Technology Engineering and Math) to integrate real-life experiences with the curriculum. Sam Houston students have worked hard over the past year to revitalize their courtyard and school helping make it a school that students want to attend. The garden would be a great asset on campus for the students and local community residents.

Salvador Elementary School

Our schools lack the infrastructure and funding to inform students about nutrition and plant-to-food connections that are missing from their household education. School gardens represent a viable opportunity to unite the efforts of parents and teachers to overcome this deficiency.

Salmon River High School and Riggins Elementary

The primary goal of the program is to expand and maintain an existing school garden to support improved nutritional habits of both elementary and high school students in Riggins Idaho with senior citizens serving as mentors. This mentorship will foster rich rural community relationships across the ages. The grant funds will be used to improve an already existing school garden and to renovate an existing greenhouse. To improve the fruit and vegetable consumption of a rural low income community.

Salem High School

The proposed project would be for high school students to plant cultivate & harvest crops to sell at farmers' markets. Proceeds from the sales would support the Salem Teen Leadership Program (middle-school students).. This is a great way to involve teens -- on the giving -- and the receiving end! This project will also teach them a lot about nature planting cultivating small business sales marketing etc. It's a win-win for high school and middle school teens to participate and benefit.

Salazar Elementary

The garden's goals are many and are constantly integrated further through the discussion and actions of our students staff family and all collaborative organizations. Above all we seek to provide student's with the ability to know and grow food. To love and shift our food system including the eating. With further moneys our garden in the hi desert could further our want to make water use more efficient and to close the loop on our harvest to process cycle.With irrigation and a wash station.

Saint Helens Elementary

Construction began on the 6 000 sq ft garden in June 2011. It is now fenced and has raised beds water supply and a garden shed with tools. Our goal for this year is to plant dwarf fruit trees berries grapes and kiwis and to construct cinderblock compost bins & install 2 rain barrels to collect water from shed roof. These improvements will make ours fully functioning and many times more productive. More produce means more kids get to cook and eat more fresh foods.

SAGE Academy

Our goal is to create a healthy hands-on outdoor classroom where youth feel safe to develop unique leadership skills. The outdoor classroom establishes an alternative learning environment that promotes exploration of students' roles in creating the world in which we live. This component of a farm to school program helps illustrate the intersections of environmental economic and social benefits while providing good food for low-income families and encouraging better dietary habits of teens.

S.D. Spady Elementary School

CHANGE Matters Inc. has started four community gardens throughout Palm Beach County FL. Our gardens help over 400 students and their families learn about the natural food-to-table cycle as well as specific scientific concepts related to food production. This project is helping at-risk student develop the knowledge to make positive choices about great health and good nutrition. Through additional financial support our gardens can help even more students.

Russell Cave Elementary

We piloted a raised bed program with two grade levels this fall. It is running efficiently and successfully so we would like to add several more raised beds. The beds will be used to grow vegetables herbs and flowers. Edible plants will be used for classroom purposes and extras will be donated to a local food bank/kitchen.

Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor

Our garden goal is to create a teaching vegetable garden. We would like to create a garden that an entire class (30 students) can work in. The grant would make this possible. It would provide funds for seeds seed trays starter lights compost and fencing. (One of the most challenging aspects of having a garden at our school is the large number of deer. To create a successful teaching garden we need to create a deer fence around the garden. We do not have money for fencing.)

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