Garden Classrooms

Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary School

Our goal is to grow organic fruits/vegetables for the OPE salad bar provided by a Whole Food grant received by OPE last year. At present the school district does not provide organic or a large variety of salad options. The grant funds would be used to purchase a sustainable and organic growing system from GROW World. The system is composed of a net-greenhouse an automated irrigation system and removable planters. Each class at OPE would be responsible for growing one crop for the salad bar

Old Country Road Elementary School

The Old Country Road gardens enable students hands-on internalization of the message that what students eat affects how their bodies will grow. Students will be able to incorporate an understanding that food does not grow out of colorful plastic bags and boxes on supermarket shelves. The grant will make it possible for our school gardens to promote sustainability by teaching our students to care about their community as well as their bodies mind and the planet.

Olander School for Project Based Learning

Olander is a Project-based Learning school where relatively long-term classroom projects are used to bring about deeper learning. Our garden is an ideal instrument for this type of experiential learning. Younger students will understand where food comes from and older children will understand science and social issues in practice. All students including special needs kids will have the therapeutic benefits of digging in the soil. We will share knowledge gained with our community.

Ohio Valley Voices

Our garden goal is to expand our garden learning space. OVV sits on approximately three acres of land. Our interior courtyard space has been completed with garden volunteers and in-kind donations. The back acreage our facility sits on is being worked on by Boy Scouts Garden volunteers and community members. Funding is needed for several planned projects; a rain garden pathway to learning stations additional learning stations and maintenance of the grounds.

Ogden Preparatory Academy

We want to teach children about healthy foods by planning working in and harvesting food from their own garden. We want to teach children about the science of gardening the elements integral to a healthy ecology and how different environmental conditions and weather affect the plants around us. This garden will enable children to grow and consume organic foods and it will allow children to have peer mentoring and to work closely with students and faculty from Weber State University.

Oelwein Community School District

Our raised beds will be utilized by food service staff for the school lunch program by teachers for enhancing classroom curriculum and by parents students and community members as a source of gardening food and nutrition education. We are excited about the possibility of assistance with a garden project that will inspire students staff and the community to think more about their food and where it comes from.

Oakton Elementary School

Seventy percent of Oakton students are from low-income families. Given the established links between 1) lower income and higher obesity risk and 2) childhood obesity and long term health problems it is imperative that we employ innovative techniques to educate our children about health and nutrition and improve their access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Grant funding will support both of these objectives.

Oakmont Elementary School

Our third grade class studies plants and their life cycles. We would like to establish a garden to help them master this section of their curriculum. This would also be a community service project for these students. After harvesting the crops we plan to give the food to those in the community in need. It would be free for these people. All they would have to do is come to the school on set days to get what they need. This would help us establish it so we can continue the project.

Oakland Steiner School

We have recently had an outdoor learning environment professionally designed and development and expansion of our school gardens are a part of the plan. This grant will provide funding for the development of existing gardens and creation of new gardens including excavation soil plants and fruit trees on the school grounds.

Oak Park and River Forest High School

The club goal is to improve and expand the garden. Members will add soil as the original soil has settled. They would put in a vertical component for more space. A wall garden would provide an accessible area for everyone including our physically challenged students. The garden has a brick wall as its backdrop. Adding a vertical garden there would also beautify the building. The club would then be providing a green sustainable legacy that benefits the school and communities.

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