Garden Classrooms

Penny Road Elementary School

Our school's Edible Garden provides an opportunity for our students to get their hands in the dirt and watch food grow. While doing this they are able to donate the food to those who need it and are sometimes in their classes. This grant will help the garden continue its presence at Penny Road Elementary School and expand its ability to produce food to be donated to programs like Plant a Row for the Hungry. Building connections to nature and cultivating a generous spirit are our main goals.

Pembroke Elementary

Pembroke Elementary is a nationally recognized School of Character and accordingly public service is included in our school's mission statement. For more than 20 years our students have participated in Pembroke's annual Harvest Hike gathering canned goods for local food banks. If Pembroke is chosen as a grant recipient we would like to expand our garden and donate fresh produce to local food kitchens in addition to the over 1 000 pounds of canned goods we donate annually.

Pecan Park Elementary

We would like to expand the garden enough that 14 classes can participate in the spring. We would also like to build a green house so that the students can keep growing plants throughout the colder months of the school year. We've seen how beneficial the experiential aspects of the garden are for the students understanding of subject matter- it would be a huge asset to every students' comprehension if their hands were getting dirty.

Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc.

Our goal is twofold: to create and implement a botany curriculum emphasizing diversity and adaptations for use with preschool aged students in a garden setting and to gain horticultural experience maintaining a children's garden; utilize our small space creatively so we can maximize its potential while expanding growing season and yield.

Patterson Literature Magnet

The goal is to have Nutrition classes for school children using the garden beds and art projects as the medium of instruction. The classes will be conducted in the garden by the Teacher. The garden presents a unique opportunity for an ultimate partnership between the academic and the service sectors of the community.It has the capacity to improve nutritional outcomes for young children enhance the classroom experience for our students serve as a demonstration and teaching site for our campus.

Parsons Elementary School

The Parsons was developed and is maintained by the 4th grade Honor Society. The kids have sold their harvest to buy supplies for heart pillows. These heart pillows were created and assembled by the Honor Society then given to the Jackson Madison Cardiac Unit. This donation will help the heart patients there. Other harvests from our garden have been donated food banks and given as gifts.

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.

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