Garden Classrooms

Millbrook High School

The goal is to strengthen our farm-to-fork project in cooperation with other departments of Millbrook High School. Our short term goal is to produce much of our own food for cooking on an edible campus. Long term we hope hope to develop production enough to assist school families in need. We also hope to model and encourage students to cook from scratch and garden at home in suburbs

Mill Plain Elementary School

The goal for having a school garden is that students will have first hand experience in caring for and learning about plants. Students will also benefit nutritionally by consuming the plants that they grow. Finally we can involve parents and other volunteers in helping to care for our community garden.

Mildred I. Lavizzo Elementary

Our goal is to construct a Learning Garden for our school community. The Learning Garden would be an extension of the classroom and act as an enhancement to the school playground. It would also be designed to be a place our students will want to play in and that our teachers will want to teach in thereby creating a long-term positive investment for the school and community.

Memorial Preparatory for Scholars and Athletes

Our goal is to expand our garden so that it will be utilized and admired by our entire school community, not just the students. The current garden is a source of fresh healthy ingredients for meals and snacks and is a platform for nutrition and health education. With expansion, it will be a tool teachers can incorporate into science and math lessons, a source of healthful food choices that students can share with their families, and a peaceful place on campus for all school stakeholders to enjoy.

Melmark New England

The Garden Project at our school will serve our 112 children who are on the very severe end of the autism spectrum. We seek to develop a small greenhouse for seedling development and to install a vegetable garden. Our school sits on 9 acres of land; we have an area identified for the greenhouse and the garden. This project will be a valuable teacher-aid to our children on a multitude of skills and levels.

Meadowdale Elementary School

The garden grant will give students a hands-on approach with the growing care for and distribution of plants herbs and vegetables. The conversations and experiences will link directly to curriculum and our healthy living goals. Students will help to grow and harvest plants with the help of their families. The end result of crops and vegetables will be donated to a local food pantry which serves our community.

McKinley School

Our goal is to revive the old garden plot in order to bring about new life (literally and metaphorically) into the intersection between the McKinley School and Haley House.

McDevitt Middle 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.

Maury Elementary School

The plan that has been drafted calls for the construction of approximately a dozen long raised beds that provide adequate room around each to facilitate the gathering of a large group of students. We also plan to enlarge the variety of the plantings we have nurtured previously in the already established beds around school.

Mattison Avenue Elementary School

The garden at Mattison Avenue Elementary one garden within the Wissahickon Garden Program. The program seeks to create a holistic tangible paradigm shift in our learning community towards sustainable "green" living healthy eating and mindful consumption of our food. This vision permeates our entire community from our administration teachers students staff and our community. Through our unified action in this program we seek to educate model and live the concept of "greener learning".

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