Garden Classrooms

Martin Luther King Jr. Academy Middle School

GrowingGreat will use the grant to complete garden construction and purchase supplies needed to deliver a successful school garden program. Construction of a three-bin compost system at each school will enable students to study decomposition practice waste management and use compost to benefit garden soil. Grant funds will be used to rehabilitate tired garden plots and purchase garden supplies to give children hands-on experience growing eating and sharing fresh food from the garden.

Marshall Middle School

We seek to actively engage children in the process of growing food and arm them with the knowledge of why and how to eat healthfully. Our project highlights gardening both as a type of physical activity and as a way to study the natural world. This grant will make it possible for us to work more with our student garden organization to increase appreciation for fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the community while simultaneously working to increase access to healthy foods.

Marshall Elementary

The primary goal of the new Marshall School Garden Program will be to introduce our students to environmental systems and increase students' understanding of and respect for the natural world and their place within it through the investigative and nurturing act of gardening. The program will support core science math and language art standards while simultaneously fostering a deep connection to the environment.

Marlinton Elementary Graduating Gardens

By establishing a school garden program it will not only benefit the students but the whole community. We hope students will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of where food comes from how it's grown and a personal desire to be healthy through eating well and exercising. We hope this excitement and enthusiasm transfers to parents and together they will make positive changes by preparing meals with more wholesome ingredients cooking at home or starting a home garden.

Mariposa Elementary School of Global Education

This grant will allow for the continued operation and expansion of the Mariposa School Garden. The funds will be used to purchase seeds gardening tools materials for descriptive and educational signage and materials for expansion with additional planters. In order to meaningfully integrate the garden with the school lunch program the size and production of the garden must be significantly expanded. This grant will make that possible.

Mariner Middle School

The goal of our garden is to help educate students on their understanding of the nutritional aesthetic environmental and therapeutic values of horticulture. This grant will continue to allow students to be actively involved in community gardening by giving them the tools they will need on a daily basis to both work and learn about horticulture.

Marie H. Reed Elementary

Marie Reed Elementary - Garden goals.1) Give students a first gardening experience..2) Help them learn first-hand about production of food and nutrition..3) Use the garden as a place for the hands-on learning of math science and other disciplines..4) Create awareness of the disappearing habitat of other species and practical steps to restore a place for them. .5) Bring students and parents schools and communities closer together through a Garden Club.

Mar Vista Elementary School Los Angeles Unified School District

We have two goals with this proposal: 1) expand the Growing Great (growinggreat.org) curriculum to 4th graders; and 2) enhance the supporting gardens. Growing Great is a non-profit garden and nutrition education organization dedicated to inspiring individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles. The curriculum aims to enhance students' lives by improving their science and ecology literacy. Our school gardens are our students' laboratories in which they explore and test what they learn.

Maplewood Richmond Heights High School

On the edge of St. Louis, Missouri, the Maplewood Righmond Heights kitchen garden grows food for the public school district's Seed to Table cafeteria program. High school interns work the garden 8 months of the year, overseen by a staff member. The potager-style kitchen garden features a tool shed with a living roof, a brick outdoor oven, and compost facilities. The growing space is comprised of 4 x14 foot vegetable beds, border beds, and a fruit area. We are looking forward to a great growing season!

Manchester Academic Charter School

With this grant we hope to transform our small garden into a living laboratory supported and appreciated by the whole school. We want to bring more students of all ages to the garden integrate garden projects with classroom learning to help teach science and social studies and use our harvests to learn about healthy eating and cooking. ..We want our students to understand connection between growing harvesting and eating food and appreciate the value of choosing healthy natural food.

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