Garden Classrooms

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.

Ridgeway Elementary School

Our goal is to involve our students teachers parents and community members in planning creating and caring for the garden. Most importantly our students will learn many skills like observation collection organization and developing positive values attitudes and beliefs about healthy eating gardening and conservation. This grant will provide the school with funds to purchase seeds plants tools garden materials. Building compost bins is also a priority.

Ridgeland High School

Our garden goal is to create a fruit and vegetable garden that will be an educational tool for our students and community. We will use the garden to teach students and community members about healthy food choices as well as all other subjects including math. All fruit and vegetables from the garden will be utilized to either educate students feed community or the school.

Rideout Elementary

Our garden goal includes increasing harvest production to donate fresh produe to a local good bank in our community. We currently have raised beds but are interested in developing vertical gardening beds and container gardens for students who are unable to plant in the ground at home. We want to expand our greenhouse so that we can start more seedlings. We want to integrate garden Science in all subject areas by buying curriculum that will promote academic growth and involve our parents more.

Richfield Middle School

Our primary goal for the garden is to provide an outdoor classroom for students to study science (seed life cycles sun pattern tracking) math (spacing timing) health (eating fruits and vegetables) and to provide inspiration for art and journaling. The garden also provides students with job skills and leadership opportunities and increases physical activity during classes. Finally the garden increases parent and community involvement and positive interactions among staff and students.

Richardson Park Elementary School

This grant will facilitate the implementation of a sustainable gardening program;therefore providing a valuable resource to the school and surrounding community. The goal of the garden program is to improve classroom learning through hands-on experience enable students to develop environmental and agricultural literacy enhance student eating habits and overall health build self-esteem and instill a sense of achievement.

Renfroe Middle School

The garden is currently a hot setting for school lunches. A pergola would solve the problem and also provide a trellis for vining fruits something the garden lacks. We also need gardening tools and a place to store them.

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