Garden Classrooms

Lowry Montessori Early Learning Center

Mile High Montessori has 6 sites with the opportunity to garden. Some sites have gardens that are not integrated into the program some sites have no garden. Our hope is to provide a gardening experience at each location that allows students to learn about vegetables and gardening to enhance their awareness of healthy food where it comes from and that the students can have a role in providing the food. The grant will offer family involvement as well as education around a gardening theme.

Lower Gwynedd Elementary School

The garden at Lower Gwynedd 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".

Lower Brule Day School

Diabetes dependence upon commodities and the NAHA truck for food is rampant on the Reservation and is crippling us. It is not uncommon for a "meal" to consist of a power drink or pop and a bag of chips. Our goal is to turn this around and return to eating whole real food. We want to instill a working knowledge of and love/passion for growing one's own food and being integrally involved in that process. The grant would make it possible to continue and have comprehensive cooking classes.

Lowell Elementary School

The goal of the Lowell School garden is to provide an outdoor classroom where our students can learn a variety of topics ranging from nutrition to science, language arts to community service. Our garden provides a safe hands-on learning environment for our students who have had little opportunity to take ownership of anything. We strive to educate children on where food comes from and to give students the tools they need to grow their own garden in the future.

Louisiana State University Laboratory School

Our overall goal is to educate the ULS students & community about the benefits of gardening & encourage healthier lifestyle choices. This grant would allow us to revamp our school lunch program by expanding our edible cafeteria kitchen garden with a Woolly School Garden and give our students the opportunity to grow food to be served on the salad bar. The lessons that will be provided link to National Standards & correlate to State of Louisiana GLE"s & will be integrated in to our curriculum.

Louis Pasteur Elementary School

Our garden goal is to create a green space that serves as a model for our students and their families. This grant will give us the ability to grow a variety of vegetables and herbs. Students will engage in hands-on learning as they grow and harvest plants. They will also observe in the real world what they study in the classroom as they see pollinators decomposers producers and consumers. Families and community members will become active participants in the learning process.

Longview School

This garden grant will enable us to expand our current gardening program at Longview making it more relevant to student needs for practical job training and useful for a wider range of Longview students. With the help of $2 000 we can design and build a new garden area as a collaboration between several Longview classes and a local permaculture design professor; start a seed-to-market program; and improve our ability to teach classes outside.

Loma Linda Elementary

It will make possible that children in a low income low resource community have the opportunity to continue to learn about where their food comes from how delicious healthy food can be and how easy it is to grow it at a place where they go learn everyday already. Students will take this garden and nutrition education home to their parents and Garden volunteers from the community will also benefit all opportunities which they would not have access to without the help of grants such as this.

Lloyd Road School

Our goal through this garden is to foster independence in our special education students. With this garden they can apply and generalize the academic skills they have learned in class. This will help them become contributing members of our community. Moreover the exposure to teamwork learning how to grow plants managing money as they sell what they harvest and learning to make healthy choices as they learn to cook with the harvested vegetables will equip them with invaluable life skills.

Livingston Elementary School

This grant will allow our students to learn about various plants and how they grow. It will provide hands on experiences for children allowing them to grow their own vegetables and to share this experience with the community. We want to create 6 small gardens one for each grade K - 5. Each grade level will plant water weed and harvest their own garden. Parents will help monitor the gardens over the summer. Our goal is for the garden to provide vegetables for the community.

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