Garden Classrooms

Live Oak Elementary School

This grant will provide funds to rebuild our garden shed restore beds provide for seeds and soil create pathways and buy several tools.

Little River Elementary School

The purpose of the Little River School Garden is to foster a sustainable learning environment which will enhance academic achievement promote healthy living support social development and empower students teachers and the community to learn collectively. By involving Boy Scouts Girls Scouts parents teachers and students in gardening we will educate these groups about nutritious advantages of fresh and locally grown foods healthy eating and the natural curiosity of the natural world.

lincoln Elementary School

The primary goal of the garden program is to provide students with outdoor gardening experiences that tie into our environmental education and nutrition programs for our K-5 students. Through growing their own produce students will gain first hand knowledge on organic gardening and nutritional benefits of consuming fresh fruits and vegetables. This grant will fund the initial construction of the garden space provide tools planter boxes soil seeds and other gardening supplies.

Lincoln Elementary School

This is a joint project of the local Community Council and Lincoln School. The grant will benefit our diverse ethnic student body by aligning state curriculum to hands on gardening. This will include science math critical thinking and environmental awareness. The garden will also benefit parents and the community by serving as a tool through which they may engage with the school in an activity supporting students education health and environment in a school and community focused garden.

Lime Springs/Chester Elementary

Lime Springs is an extremely small town in rural Northeast Iowa. There are no grocery stores and no local fruit or vegetable farms. We hope that our school's raised bed gardens provide opportunities for education and healthy eating for our students and members of our community. We hope to involve parents siblings and any other community members in our garden and our garden's harvests.

Lewiston Housing Authority (after-school site)

This proposal is for 2 gardens: (1) a new school garden located in the most disadvantaged school in our City in the same downtown neighborhood as most of our urban gardens; and (2) a 12-year old children's garden at the City's largest public housing complex Hillview Apartments. Funding these two gardens will allow our community to both be inspired by the success of the Hillview Garden and kick off the very first FoodCorps school garden in a neighborhood in dire need of access to fresh food

Lester Elementary School

The grant will be a vital component in integrating the students' study of plants in science and math programs. The garden may also create awareness among the children as they learn valuable lessons related to work and the environment molding them to be better more involved citizens in their community.

Lawton Chiles High School

The Garden at Lawton Chiles High School will be a space for students, faculty, staff and community members to learn, teach, and practice safe and environmentally sustainable food production methods. It will be a space for building long-__term and meaningful relationships within the local community and with residents in the city of Tallahassee.

Lawrence Academy Charter School

This grant will help the school in developing a garden with different species of plants thus would provide the students experience of natural beauty and Natural Science.This grant will bring a revolution to the community by bringing knowledge and awareness of plants in the students. It will also making learning of botany meaningful to the students. This grant will add beauty to the school and also will build interest in the students. Student would love to come to school which is beautiful.

Laurelhurst School

Make the garden a year-round venture using row covers on existing raised beds and greenhouse/tents on lower beds; new raised beds and borders; winter-time produce used directly in the cafeteria and classroom tastings. .Other ideas include: finishing benches for gathering /teaching area; a shed for the tools accessible to staff near the garden; hand tools for a class. Our plans include lunchtime garden work with a volunteer. Math students will calculate supplies needed and design aspects.

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