Garden Classrooms

PS 102 Jacquies Cartier

The goal is to provide youth-fueled diabetes prevention education in East Harlem transforming underutilized land into an opportunity for youth development fitness nutrition learning and fun. 20 students in Concrete Safaris' afterschool at PS 102 located within Jefferson Houses will design the garden this winter. 200 classmates will help install and maintain it. Children will garden 5 days/week afterschool supplemented by full or half school day workshops called Green Exercise Days.

Presumpscot School

Our goal is to give every student a chance to engage with the growing space in a meaningful way. Our project is in a critical moment: the number of teachers students and community members who want to be closely connected with the garden is at a peak yet the garden is too small to allow further activity. This grant will help us expand our growing space so we can involve more students and grow more food purchase adequate numbers of safe tools and build a proper tool shed for our supplies.

Presbyterian Children's Village School

Gardening will become a significant project-based learning focus and a therapeutic activity at PCV. Using the Garden of Learning curriculum we will incorporate aspects of the garden project into English math and science classes. This grant will allow us to transition our garden from a voluntary activity to a robust aspect of the learning and healing process at the Village. This grant will fund raised planting beds mulch and tools necessary for doing the work that a successful garden requires.

Prairie Crossing Charter School

Prairie Crossing Charter School has over 40 raised beds on our campus.  Each classroom has access to several raised beds, where they grow crops chosen by the teachers and students.  

The school hosts a monthly Farm to Table lunch.  At this event, crops harvested from our campus gardens are incorporated into a healthy menu.  Students present to the community about how they grew the featured crops, and are able to taste the fruits of their labor.

Power Center Academy

Gestalt Community Schools has plans to open up approximately one new school each year for the next seven years. With plans to expand the number of schools in the Memphis area we want to also expand our community gardens. Therefore every scholar at a GCS school can learn from all that growing a garden has to offer such as the benefits of growing locally business opportunities in the food industry healthy food choices and the science of growing plants.

Potlatch School District #285

Goals: solve erosion problem improve esthetics and educate students in growing techniques and nutrition. Terracing a hillside is our planned location. Erosion control and sustainable gardening reaps ecological and life skill benefits for our poor rural students. The garden will be used by high school students elementary students and our at-risk student program. The community benefits through improved esthetics positive interaction with students and fresh food at the local food bank.

Port of Los Angeles High School

The POLAHS mission states that all students will graduate from high school will be prepared and motivated for college and will be introduced to sustainable careers and job pathways. The hands-on gardening experience is the foundation for the achievement of these goals. Students partnered with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles in August 2011 and a new community garden was introduced at the Rancho San Pedro Public Housing Development - this has been a life changing collaboration!

Pond Gap Elementary

Both Pond Gap Elementary and the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) school are located in low-income communities where access to affordable organically grown nutritious fresh produce is limited. Expanding and renovating our gardens would allow for more participation from each community enabling us to share the increased harvest and to engage the community. Any produce that is not received by the community would be donated to The Love Kitchen which delivers food to the poor and elderly of Knoxville.

Polaris at Ebert

Our goal is to further integrate the garden into the cirriculum and the community and to extend our growing season. We plan to implement DUG's Connecting Generations Program which matches older adult mentors and our students in the garden environment. These mentors will support the staff and parent volunteers in teaching various subjects in the garden. To extend our growing season we require additional grow labs to start from seed and hoop houses to get plants into the garden sooner.

Pojoaque Valley High School

The main goal of the garden has always been as a venue for students to learn as many of the NM State Content Standards (in science and math) as possible in a hands-on contextual way. In the last two years or so the potential for the garden to expand into a more community partner-based and entrepreneurial experience for our students has been investigated by our lead science teacher and his students through our school's Horticulture Science program and we are excited to pursue this further.

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