Garden Classrooms

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.

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.

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