Garden Classrooms

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.)

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

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