Garden Classrooms

Oak Grove School

Oak Grove has two goals. First move the greenhouse to a sunnier spot to increase production of organic vegetable starts. Second plant fall-bearing fruit trees in the landscape to increase nutritional variety. For Willowside Middle School the goal is to begin a salad bar program using produce from the garden beds supplemented by donations. Student and teacher participation will be modeled after the successful program at the elementary school.

Oak Grove Elementary

Our goal is to establish school gardens where students learn important life skills in multi-discipline areas (science math healthy living and language arts). In addition to gardening skills this project will teach teamwork and good character traits like trustworthiness respect fairness caring responsibility and citizenship. The youth will utilize products from the garden consuming vegetables and in some cases participating in a service-learning project to donate to needy families.

Oak Grove Bellemeade Elementary

Our goal is to create a dynamic school garden. The garden will serve a variety of purposes: 1)Creating an opportunity for dramatically underserved populations to connect with their food learn about growing food and healthy eating. 2)Provide a hands on educational component to supplement math science art English and history curricula. 3)Provide a valuable way for the school to serve as a vibrant community hub within the neighborhood.

Novato Charter School

Every Novato Charter School student studies farming botany and nutrition. They read Omnivore's Dilemma and consider food production systems. Now we would like to make the farm to table connection at school. We have a wonderful organic garden but we do not have a means for students to prep the food they grow on site. Our goal is to have a wash and prep station for students to prepare produce to cook in the garden contribute to hot lunches and to sell at our NCS Farmer's Market.

Norwood Elementary School

The goal of our garden project is to foster the reconnection of our students to the land as the source of their food. We will teach our students to be advocates for healthy eating by learning to prepare the foods they grow through first-hand gardening experience. Families in our community do not have access to affordable fresh produce and this project will not only be able to provide this for them but will also help to foster a deeper sense of community connectedness to each other and nature.

Northwestern High School

The grant would build relationships between children and the community. It would provide vegetables for members of the community. It would also bring awareness about the positive things the church is doing in the community towards strengthening the outreach that the church does.

Northport Public School

This grant will provide a new opportunity for the Northport community that will initiate a school garden program and provide the foundation for increased hands-on food and nutrition education as well as meaningful relationship-building among students teachers and community members. Our garden goal is to build a sustainable garden space to learn which will help to connect students' isolated academic experiences and the rich farming and food traditions of Northwest Michigan.

Northpointe Academy

Our goal is to reconnect students and our community with nature and where their food comes from. We also strive to connect youth with opportunities to build their career through gaining skills in the green economy. We will use this grant to advance our students ability to access local food and to deep their education of food through gardening. We see this as part of a strategy to advance the urban agriculture movement in Detroit and to help build a local economy in the city.

Northeast Elementary School

There are many who can benefit from and appreciate the beauty of school gardens but flourishing gardens take years to become well established. Gardens also require a dedicated and knowledgeable gardener to remain useful and beautiful over time. Our goal is to maintain an infrastructure that supports school gardeners over time while maximizing as many avenues of participation for as many participants (students teachers parents cafeteria custodial staff and community volunteers) as possible.

Northbrook Junior High

Students will have the opportunity to learn life science problem-solving and mathematical concepts in a _real world garden classroom. They will have a hands-on connection to the food cycle and will be able to participate in sustainable agriculture. They will play a role in the garden's development and maintenance helping to develop a sense of responsibility and initiative and an interest in plant biology and have a chance to eat the fruits of their labor in the cafeteria.

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