Garden Classrooms

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".

Mastery CS-Thomas Campus

Our goal is to have the Woolly School Garden serve as our hands-on garden that we were unable to do because we could not sustain a true greenhouse. We have also partnered with our food service provider and the state Department of Nutrition to explore ways local foods can be incorporated into the food service program. For many students this may be their first opportunity to view a vegetable at the source rather than from the supermarket or in the food line.

Maryland Elementary School

The project goals are for all students through classroom and hands-on experiences to gain knowledge of relationships people have to environment plant parts and life cycles and how people help their growth other factors that enhance growth how food people eat is grown in a garden what parts of the plant are eaten and other curriculum related topics. Most of the pieces of the project are in place. The grant will allow us to maintain/update the garden and improve instructional opportunities.

Martin Luther King Laboratory School

Our goal is to educate all 5th grade students about healthy eating and nutrition and to build two learning tables used for demonstration cooking and potting. Students (who normally would not be able to experience this due to envirnomental factors) will have a chance to eat food from the ground and appreciate their part in producing it. Last they will have a better understaning of the role of plants in the environment. Grant funds will be used to offset the cost of garden maintenance material.

Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School

Nearly 20% TN children are either obese or overweight.Green Club seeks to educate the Nashville community about eating healthy.Also we want to provide free local produce to urban Nashville areas that lack whole food stores.We'll teach community members how to make their food from scracth& we'll encourage them to spread their healthy eating habits to others.By working together in the garden the relationships within the community will grow stronger& members will become better stewards of the Earth

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.

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