Garden Classrooms

Oradell Public School

The goal of the garden is to teach students about where their food comes from increase student consumption of fruits and vegetables teach students the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables and use the garden as a tool to teach regularly taught curriculum.

Open Alternative School

This Garden Grant will make the following possible for Open Alternative School: (1) support the ability of the students and staff to clean and eat fresh picked raw produce inside the garden (2) allow students and staff easy and safe access to the lathe house worm box compost areas upon completion of repairs (3) improve and repair the structure of the lathe house and (4) extend the garden growing season to enable harvesting of tomatoes and basil in February.

Olivia Park Elementary School

Our garden goal is to provide our students and families with a safe healthy and inspired learning environment. We want our students and families to be active participants in our garden and benefit by enjoying the harvest and healthy eating at a time many of our families are financially struggling. This grant will allow our garden to continue to be self sustaining. Having a shed and tools of our own will help take our garden to the next level.

Oliver P. Lent School

The garden will provide easy access to fresh, healthy food for the students at Lent and their families. It will also serve as a place for community gatherings such as school-sponsored fairs and PTA or local group meetings. At least 7 teachers have committed to using the garden as an extension of their traditional indoor classrooms which will give students the opportunity for a lot of hands-on academic learning and lessons in self-reliance.

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.

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