Garden Classrooms

Pocket Park Hoop House

The garden goal is to implement a sustainable rain catchment system at each of our garden sites. This will improve our ability to ensure that our garden is adequately watered and this will also improve our ability to engage community stakeholders at the garden. We would also like to improve the heat retention and extend our gardening season in our Pocket Park located on our campus. This will also allow us to create a food demonstration and work space.

Plymouth Whitemarsh High School

As mentioned above we are looking to expand and improve our garden. Due to the current size of the garden the amount of produce we get is not enough to offer to all of the schools in our district. I would be thrilled if each of our schools could incorporate fresh produce in thier school meal programs. I would also like to be able to grow enough to provide produce to families in need during the summer time and off school hours.

Plum Cove Elementary

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days. 

Pleasant Ridge Montessori

Our garden will be a learning oasis where classroom content comes to life through real-world experiences & students see the abundant rewards of nurturing growing things. Many of our students experience food insecurity at home. We want to improve their access to healthy foods. To do this we must: 1. Protect our crops from deer from the neighboring golf course. 2. Have a secure place for our tools. 3. Make our water supply more reliable. This grant will help provide this essential infrastructure.

Platte River Elementary School

This grant will provide cooking equipment and supplies (especially scientific measuring tools) to teachers and food service staff to facilite educational uses of harvested from the hoop in both the classroom and lunchroom setting. The resources from this grant will help to overcome limited food storage capacity by providing the tools to integrate harvesting to immediate culinary and educational use while supporting the achievement of student educational and nutritional goals.

Plasencia Elementary School

The goal of our garden project is to foster the reconnection of our students to the land as the source of their food. We will teach our students to be advocates for healthy eating by learning to prepare the foods they grow through first-hand gardening experience. Families in our community do not have access to affordable fresh produce and this project will not only be able to provide this for them but will also help to foster a deeper sense of community connectedness to each other and nature.

Pittsburgh Linden K-5

Pittsburgh Linden draws its diverse student body from the entire city of Pittsburgh. Many students have no gardening experience so far. A garden on the school grounds will enable Linden teachers to provide hands-on projects for the students. These projects will include lessons in nutrition biology culture history geography language (German and Chinese) social science. For the first year we are planing to have each classroom for grades K-4 (15 total)to grow one fruit or vegetable.

Pinedale Elementary School

The goal of the hoop houses is three fold; to educate our afterschool program youth in how raise produce; to provide quality fresh produce to our community and to teach youth a healthy active lifestyle by working in the garden and preparing the produce they raise. This grant will allow us to continue to reach those goals by expanding our beds for root crops and berries. These funds will help us set up a more efficient water system. Currently we pump water from a local pond and store in a wate

Pinecrest Elementary School

The food bank's goal is to teach children about food and healthy nutrition the hunger issues of many Southwest Floridians environmental sustainability and personal responsibility. A school garden teaches these lessons. A committed group of stakeholders including agricultural experts food bank staffers and teachers will be involved. Students will tend to the gardens regularly. The hope is that they will take what they learn home and encourage their families to cultivate healthy food.

Pine Crest School

Currently our garden grows herbs and spices which we hope to expand to include fresh vegetables and fruits. This grant would help us obtain the necessary supplies to do so. We hope to replicate this garden at other schools so that students and faculty can learn more about food production and the need to be self- sufficient and craft lesson plans around the garden (math science civics). Eventually we hope that our garden will be plentiful and become a source to donate to food banks.

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