Garden Classrooms

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.

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.

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