Garden Classrooms

North Elementary School

While in Spring 2011 our goal was to begin gardening to learn about plant lives and varieties this year our goal has expanded. We want to incorporate more project-based inquiry learning into the garden. We want the children to design and conduct experiments about plant varieties soil and water conditions etc. We hope to become a model for other schools; engage parents in their children's education; and stimulate green practices in students teachers parents and the community.

North Clayton Middle School

The goal of the Learning Garden is to encourage students to learn outside.Integrating curriculum and habitat projects into an outdoor classroom is a unique and valuable approach to getting children engaged and excited about learning. The grant will provide local businesses and community members an opportunity to actively participate in their community. The school garden will bridge gaps build ties by providing a forum of community interaction. The garden will be a display of community support.

North Belmont Elementary School

This grant money will help make this school garden project possible. It will enhance the experience for the students involved and greatly expand educational opportunities related to the garden both for the students enrolled in the gardening program and the school at large because this funding will allow the school to go above and beyond building raised beds. The projects that will be undertaken with the grant money will also reach volunteers and parents strengthening the school community.

Normal Heights Elementary School

The garden goal for our school is to build an organic garden system for access by all grade levels to support academic content in the classroom to provide enrichment activities for students (90% of whom are designated low income) to enhance health and nutrition education to increase parent and community involvement at the school and to teach children about the importance of ecological responsibility and sustainability.

Noble Prentis Elementary

Goal is to make the garden sustainable and increase participation. The 4 raised beds served 19 students and several parent helpers though there were many more students interested in participating. This made it crowded and difficult to keep every child busy. An expanded garden will provide more growing space and allow us to involve more students and community members. An increase in community participation will ensure that the garden continues to be a priority program in the school.

Noble and Greenough School

The grant will allow us to expand upon our small raised bed start partner with the summer Upward Bound students provide some fresh vegetables for the UB students during their summer experience AND provide education about how fresh vegetables are grown. We will buy seed tools and perhaps build a shed nearby to house our materials and supplies.

New Smyrna Beach High School

The long term goals of the SEEDS (Students for Environmental Education Diversity and Sustainability )Program will involve students in planning building propagating planting maintaining and harvesting vegetables to be distributed as needed to the local food banks Cudas Unhooked (an organization to help at risk and homeless students) and the Culinary Arts Program at New Smyrna Beach High School. The grant will allow us to buy necessary materials to construct and maintain vegetable beds.

New Highland Academy

We hope to address two critical challenges. One is the need for ongoing horticultural support in the garden itself: this grant will allow us to pay a community member for twice-monthly work days to keep the garden healthy and to respond to teachers requests for information seeds and maintenance. The other challenge is to build relationships between curriculum food and gardening: the grant will pay garden coordinator time and materials to work with teachers in fulfilling curriculum standards.

New Century School

We wish to expand the physical space of the garden. This will involve turning over new soil around the current plot as well as the use of trellises to employ vertical growing techniques. Our plan is to grow more lettuces and other quick growing vegetables in the spring along with some harvestable items for the fall. Our goal is to increase our gardens production to a level where we are able donate produce to our local food pantry as well as sell produce at our local farmers' market.

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