Garden Classrooms

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.

Nativity School of Worcester

School groups spend time at our farm through which all fruits and vegetables are donated to hunger relief organizations in Worcester County. These students learn about hunger in their community and the importance of fresh fruits and vegetables to all of our diets. The addition of a school garden component will allow students to bring back what they have learned and grow fresh produce for themselves and their families. The grant will allow our community to become more engaged and healthier.

Nathan Hale Elementary School

Our goal is to increase the number of raised garden beds to expand the vegetable gardening opportunities for the Nathan Hale Garden Club. We have approximately 35 students and our vegetable garden space is not large enough to accommodate all the members who want to participate. We would like to enlarge the variety of vegetables planted. We would like to donate the produce to local food pantries.

Nassau BOCES Willets School

Our garden goal is to make available to these kids kids who have been removed from their school districts because of unresolved ongoing problems basic organic gardening information and a way to involve themselves in giving back to their community. A reason to get up in the morning and look forward to completing a task.

Namaste Charter School

Namaste Charter School plans to continue the development of the school garden as a learning laboratory to incorporate nutrition and sustainable agriculture into its curriculum. Namaste would like to use this grant to plant herbs vegetables and create a butterfly garden in the raised beds. This grant will support the garden by purchasing soil test kits Earthboxes seeds plants tools gloves and curriculum materials in English and Spanish to integrate gardening activities into two classrooms.

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