Garden Classrooms

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.

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.

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