Garden Classrooms

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.

Renfrew Community School

Our goal for this grant is to expand the garden and improve access for all our students. The grant would help us expand the garden by allowing us to build four garden beds and making it wheelchair accessible for our Life Skills students. In addition we would like to build a rain water collection system to help teach students conservation and sustainability.

Renaissance Middle School at Rand

This grant will allow us to complete the restoration of the vegetable garden beds which were historically a part of the school grounds. We plan to incorporate growing vegetables into the school's existing community service program.

Red Rocks Elementary

Foundational goals:.1. Show a natural transition from seed to table

Red Lodge Public Schools

The goal of the garden is to provide youth in the Red Lodge area with an opportunity to learn about where their food comes from. As more local food moves into the schools the connection will be further strengthened when students are able to contribute and participate in the full growing cycle. Students will participate through classroom lessons in the garden after school programs and summer activities. The project will also support the community through connections with the local food bank.

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