Garden Classrooms

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.

Our Community Charter School

The goals of the OCS garden are for students to learn the life cycle of a garden and to develop a hands-on connection with that cycle; and to learn a life lesson a garden is hard physical work (i.e. turning soil) but also requires a delicate hand (i.e. seed collection). It teaches them cooperation teamwork and the value of hard work. This grant will allow us to expand the number of raised beds and to begin 2 projects that would make the garden self-sustaining: seed collection and composting.

Ottoson Middle School

We want to create a self-sustaining open-access garden program while educating youth about growing and harvesting vegetables herbs and flowers. We also want to create a peaceful atmosphere and safe space for our youth and the community to enjoy.

Otay Elementary School

Otay's goal is to make the garden an integral part of the school program. The garden has grown from just being an adjunct activity to a program that is as integral part of the school program. Our goal is to impact our community and families through a strong program that empowers students to impress upon their families the importance of good nutrition and safe activities while learning academics skills like math and science thru lessons aligned to state standards experienced in a outdoor lab.

Orrington Elementary School

The Orrington Centennial School Garden fosters a deeper appreciation of how the natural world sustains us and gives every student at Orrington Elementary an opportunity to learn with all five senses. The school is committed to having students participate in all aspects of growing harvesting and preparing seasonal produce during the school year. The grant will help us promote environmental nutritional and social well-being in our school by allowing us to expand our taste education program.

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