Garden Classrooms

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.

Laurel Dell Elementary School

The goal of the garden is to be more than plot with vegetable trays in the corner. The grant will allow us to expand the garden with a greenhouse so students can learn plant sustain and harvest year round. The grant with additional funds will also help fund a small storage shed for tools planter boxes outside of some classrooms and some fruit and shade trees for the flagpole and/or outdoor seating areas.

Laraway School

Laraway purchased a 39-acre farm. We hired a part-time farm steward with extensive agricultural planning skills. He is crafting a plan---with youth staff partner input---for gardens/plantings that make the best use of our property. If the grant is received it will allow us to purchase the tools and supplies necessary to create our garden at our new home.

Lantrip Elementary School

If we receive the grant we will first purchase what we need to build our water-conserving low-flow irrigation system. For building this we would need half-inch tubing and drip tubing all connected to different kinds of emitters and sprinklers which all be connected to main water valve. The sprinklers would have a timer connected to them. .In addition we would purchase plants seeds compost and topsoil. If there are any funds left it would go towards the purchase of a compost b

Lansdowne Elementary School

The proposed project will establish an outdoor classroom environment in one of Lansdowne's existing courtyards thereby enabling teachers to use school gardening as a platform for supporting all facets of Lansdowne's inquiry-driven IB curriculum facilitating not just knowledge of gardening but also of plant science ecology nutrition and community service.

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