Garden Classrooms

Red Hawk Elementary

Our Vision for the RHE Garden is to create a sustainable school education garden that will foster a love of nature and healthy food..Our Mission is to educate the students of RHE in how to create and sustain an educational garden and provide the school community with the opportunity to continue to become involved in their children's education. .Our Goal is for students to participate in all aspects of growing harvesting and preparing seasonal produce through science math and nutrition ed.

Reading Central Elementary

Our goal is to introduce our students to experience working in the soil planting weeding harvesting and using the food that we have grown. Our students are very attuned electronically and have little experience with gardens and nature and the outdoors. We also have a service learning goal for our students and community. We would like to donate our harvested produce to community families in need or to local charities and churches.

Ralph E. Hawes Elementary School

This grant would make it possible for us to start a Woolly School Garden program at our school. Our goal is to have the Woolly School Garden serve as our hands-on outdoor classroom to give students the opportunity to grow food themselves. The garden will be in an ideal location for all students to be able to witness daily growth of the vegetables as we plan to place it on the wall next to the lunch area where grades 1-5 eat lunch everyday.

RALEIGH EGYPT HIGH

OUR GOAL IS TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT GROWING FOOD. WE WANT TO START WITH A DEMONSTRATION GARDEN SITE THAT IS AVAILABLE EACH YEAR FOR THE KIDS TO PARTICIPATE AND DEVELOP AN INTEREST IN AGRICULTURE.AN INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIC GROWING AND LEARN HOW TO IMPROVE THE SOIL.WE WILL TEACH ABOUT NUTRITION AND THE STUDENTS WILL BE IN AN EDUCATIONAL GARDEN ENVIRONMENT.THE GRANT WILL MAKE POSSIBLE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A DEMONSTRATION GARDEN AND A PROJECT WHERE THEY CAN GET INVOLVED AND BE PROUD. FOOD&FLOWERS

Raines Elementary

Our goal with the garden is to be able to teach the kids at Raines that the foods we eat grow from the ground and that healthy food will sustain healthy bodies for the future. I want kids to obtain a new way of thinking about food and why they should avoid the processed foods they sell down the block. Through tasting new fruits and veggies they grow and cooking demonstrations this grant will allow kids to see that healthy whole foods are delicious and possible to access in their community.

Queen Anne Elementary School

Our goal is to create an organic garden where students can observe learn & create. With funding we can integrate the garden into every classroom subject from history to science while educating urban kids & families about the impact that growing & eating organic produce has on their health & the health of the planet. Our students will plant harvest cook & eat from a garden that will have compost & worm bins & enough tools so kids can work side by side and know it belongs to each of them.

Public School 221

We'll expand growing boxes indoor and outside & employ experts to work besides teacher to integrate gardening into reading math and science curriculum & have higher growing success rates. The produce will be sold at our student-run Hip2B Healthy Market which sells healthy items that cost less than junk food at bodegas. We can expand our Chef's Nights & classes. Chefs show families how to cook nutritiously & deliciously using produce grown locally and by students.

PSIS41 The Walter Francis White School

There are many benefits of a garden within an urban outdoor classroom. Most are obvious such as learning healthy eating habits protecting our environmental a proven history of better attendance with the quick turnaround of edible products produced by hands-on work and the nutritional value of vegetables and fruits. Less obvious are the positive benefits of assuming leadership roles learning to follow directions participation in oral and written activities related to the project etc.

PS11 The William T. Harris School

Our garden's main goal is to connect our urban students to the natural world and to introduce gardening with edible plants. Outside of school the PS11 elementary students have very little access to interact with nature and few have participated in growing food. The school garden successfully provides tastings and provides a small amount of vegetables and herbs to the school kitchen. We grow inside in the classrooms, on the 2nd floor roof space and around the play area downstairs. We have a well established compost and rainwater catchment.

PS 153 Adam Clayton Powell Elementary School

Our garden goal is to involve the kids from K-5 to grow healthy herbs and vegetables in the limited outdoor spaces in the school which is not currently used. By involving in a garden project our children will experience the satisfaction of planting a seed and the wonderment of seeing the fruits of their labor at an early age. The children will also have the pleasure of beautifying the school. This will promote to develop healthy eating habits in the students and thereby enhance the community.

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