Garden Classrooms

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.

Phoenix House Academy

We have 4 goals for the garden: 1) Teach students from underserved communities about healthy eating and benefits of including fruits and vegetables in their diets; 2) Provide high-quality nutritional food to students & staff at the Academy Phoenix House facilities and community; 3) Offer educational therapeutic & recreational programs based on horticultural activities; & 4) Build students' self-esteem and responsibility as they learn to care for the garden.

Perspectives IIT Math and Science Academy

The goal of the garden is to involve and expose the community to the natural processes involved in gardening to provide the knowledge necessary to grow and maintain their own urban garden. As the garden grows we hope to supplement school lunches with freshly grown produce from the garden. Ultimately students will have the knowledge to grow and care for their own personal garden providing themselves and their families with healthy food.

Pepper Middle School

Our goal for the grant is to expand and bolster our garden programming better integrating them into the schools and community. We plan to use the funds to buy supplies to increase the educational value of the gardens for students and community members with artistic signage and outdoor gathering spaces. We plan to increase the functionality of the gardens by purchasing composting equipment youth-appropriate gardening tools and seed-starting materials.

Penrose Elementary

HPC plans to assemble and install an indoor growing lab at Penrose to showcase indoor gardening and seed starting techniques in order to enhance the teachers' ability to meet science-based academic standards. Another primary interest of HPC is to provide exposure to the health benefits derived from the garden in both the indoor and outdoor context.

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