Garden Classrooms

Roxborough Intermediate and Roxborough Primary (Roxborough Elementary)

Our garden will be an outdoor classroom where students will learn the full cycle of food - from planting to harvest to table. Students will learn the importance of healthy food through hands-on hard work and we plan to include harvests in school meals. We will have an after-school garden club and community involvement from staff parents and volunteers will support the function and sustainability of our garden. The CPPW grant was used to make the beds but funds are needed to sustain them.

Rowan Middle School

Our goal with the garden is to teach kids at Rowan that the foods we eat grow from the ground and that healthy food will sustain healthy bodies for the future. I want the fresh food to give kids an alternative to the processed foods sold down the block. Through tasting new foods they grow in the garden cooking and keeping food journals this grant will allow kids the resources to reconnect to their food and see that healthy whole foods are delicious and possible to obtain in their community.

Rose Ave. PS

At Rose Ave. PS our goal is to expand the garden spaces. There are two garden spaces at present but with a large student population and significant teacher interest as well as community food security needs we want to increase the volume of food produced. As well the adobe raised beds built by students were so successful in 2009-2010 that we want to build more as they are inexpensive and children as young as Grade 4 can do the actual building. This method is good for asphalt playgrounds.

Roland Park K-8 Magnet School For International Studies

We have small circular and aeroponic gardens and gardens that hang from posts. Our intent for sustainability includes that the International Garden be part of our permanent school wide curriculum. As we learn we want to share our information through student led tours with the local community and teach that great gardens can take place in limited urban settings. Students will assume the role of teachers as well as student learners. We will do this by students led tours.

Robinson Elementary

The community gardens at each 21st Century Community Learning Center sites serve as a launching point for students to learn about science, health, nutrition, character education, and more. Two Master-degreed horticulturist will work with an average of 100 children per week during the school year in small groups on Specialty Crops, gardening, science, health, and nutrition. These lessons will increase student learning opportunities, as well as provide healthy food for the community.

Roberts Academy

The inclusion of community input and engagement will lead to the community garden serving not only our school cafeteria with healthy and local alternatives but to address the scarcity of fresh fruits and vegetables in the Price Hill area. Not only will this endeavor address the food scarcity it will provide a tool for educational outreach for Roberts students and families possibilities to collaborate with our local urban eco-village and to expand the amount of garden space in the neighborhood

Robert L. Ford Elementary School

Provide fresh organic food for the community year round educate the community and their children about how to grow their own organic food and the nutritional benefits of eating healthy provide the resources for the existing garden to be further integrated into the Ford School curriculum and help further curb childhood obesity. The grant will give us the resources to purchase materials tools and literature while giving incentive to youth volunteers within the community to work with us.

Riverside Preparatory School

Our goal is to expand the community garden in a nearby community lot. We want to work with the MOSES Food Justice Project and Whole Foods to develop a Soil to Shelf Initiative so that the produce of the garden can be a potential source of income and growth in this community.

Riverside Brookfield High School

Our school garden is nicknamed, The End Zone Garden, because it is located next to the high school's football field. This high visability location has encouraged community participation and this summer we will be working with local Girl Scout Troops, parents and teachers to mantain the garden. The produce is used within the school cafeteria and our students and teachers use the garden as a learning lab in Science, Math, English, Art, Foods and Nutrition, World Languages and Special Education.

River View Community School

We are hoping to greatly expand the GRMS students' exposure to gardening. We would like to use our three newly donated and constructed raised beds to provide hands-on learning across all grades and subjects. The garden produce will supplement the food served in the school cafeteria. This grant will provide us with rain barrels and fencing which are necessary due to the location of our garden. Our garden is over 500ft from the building and is surrounded by brush.

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