Garden Classrooms

Parkview Secondary

While we have done a small children's garden program from the EcoHouse Community Garden for 3 seasons the garden's educational potential for children touring the site is not being met. With this grant we could update the design of the garden to make it fully accessible to educational programming and also develop curriculum-linked garden activities. This will allow us to teach hundreds more children about the values of fresh organic foods and the joy and skills of gardening.

Park School

We have had a set back in our garden this year with our composting as well as our limited budget for planting in a school year. We are re-building a better system of seed gathering composting harvest and output as well as addressing our sick Apple trees which could be feeding our students on a regular basis. This money could help us re-organize this year and any extra harvests perhaps could help fundraise for the future of our garden as well as well as becoming self-sustainable.

Park City Day School

The goal of the Park City Day School garden program is to expand the vegetable garden space in order to increase the types of garden activities in which the students can participate. The money provided will allow the school to build raised beds surrounding the greenhouse and purchase tools and seeds for the expanded vegetable garden. The additional beds will help the school to offer an after school garden club and a summer farmer's market program for all children in the Park City area.

Par Excellence Academy

To fuse the images of fresh food health & gardening change the image of food as wrapped and processed strengthen connection between growing cooking and eating healthy food by offering gardening as a peaceful acitivity of everyday life in our community. The grant will enable us to expand our garden from 30'x30'to 100'x100' increase from 2 raised beds to 12 plant a Reader's Garden ringed by berry bushes and add 6 window boxes to the classrooms. Edible landscaping for the sidewalk.

Pacific Middle School

Currently students do not demonstrate much knowledge about healthy eating choices and/or sustainable environmental practices. Also family/community involvement drops considerably from the elementary school level to the middle school level.. The goal of the student garden at Pacific would be to educate students about healthy eating choices implement "green" gardening practices incorporate current state science and math standards and facilitate an avenue for family/community involvement

P.S./I.S. 50 The Vito Marcantonio School/V.M.A.C.A.

Currently our cooking instructors are also leading garden programs but struggling for knowledge and skills. This grant will enable us to hire expert gardening teachers who will work alongside our cooking instructors to deliver seamless seed-to-table programs. Gardening teachers will at once raise the quality of garden programming for children and train staff to build their garden skills. Further they will help us to refine our curriculum which will benefit children for years to come.

P.S. 093

This community could benefit from the beautification of this school. This proposal has two layers. The first layer is to plant flowering perennial plants that have low maintenance and can thrive yearly. This area would be known as the "reflection garden." The community and children can sit in the reflection garden and read or just enjoy the simplicity of the garden. The second layer is to increase the children's awareness of food and how it is derived by creating small classroom gardens.

Oxford Elementary School

Our garden goal is to create a space for students to use as a learning experience. We plan to have students involved at all stages of creating the garden planting and growing the plants. Our students need hands on learning experiences in science and this would be a great opportunity. The garden would provide food for tastings and the extra food grown would be shared with our less fortunate families.

Ox Ridge Elementary School

Our goal is to promote learning by integrating classroom education with hands-on experience. Food and garden-based activities will be interwoven with grade-level curriculum. A garden will educate students in the relationships of food and our environment. Students teachers and families will be growing harvesting preparing and sharing food as a community. Receiving a grant from the Whole Kids Foundation would ensure that we can build plant and maintain our garden to reach our goals.

Overbrook School for the Blind

We would like to make our garden accessible to more of our students particularly students who are wheelchair users. We would like to expand the types of vegetables that we grow and use them more widely throughout the school campus. We would like to make fruits and vegetables more accessible to our students with the goal of increasing students' intake of fruits and vegetables and increasing overall wellness in our students.

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