Garden Classrooms

Lake City Middle School

Our goal is to expand! We need to increase in size the variety of foods and the number of gardens. We live in a rural low income/high poverty community (2/3 of the students receives free/reduced lunch benefits). Due to the expense our student body does not have access to fresh fruits and vegetables on a regular basis. This garden will provide the students with the knowledge of planting harvesting and preserving foods. This information can be shared with families to plant a home garden!

Lake Bluff Elementary School

Our project will provide a multifunctional garden for the entire community while enhancing environmental literacy for students within the Shorewood School District. Our gardens will provide students with unique learning opportunities as we align with the newly released Wisconsin Plan to Advance Education for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability in PK-12 Schools. Our garden will consist of 24 raised beds to be used April through November by students summer programs and community members.

Lacoochee Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to promote healthy food choices for the community's children and families. Families will share valuable time together while weeding watering and harvesting vegetables and preparing them at home. By eating nutritious foods the students and families will have healthier food choices at home at minimal cost. The children will learn valuable skills that they can use throughout their lives and share with their own families.

La Patera School

The grant would enable and assist in funding our Garden Program Educator to continue teaching in an economy where funding is scarce. Seed money has enabled an amazing garden and outdoor classroom to be set up and accessible to the students. The garden goal is to keep our existing garden alive and thriving for the students and school community.

La Farge Schools

With the help of this grant we hope to involve all 250 students enrolled in our K-12 school district in our garden program. The garden will serve as an outdoor classroom for a range of interdisciplinary studies. It will supplement our school food services department with breakfast and lunch options as well as healthy classroom snacks. Locally grown produce will be made available to the community. And the garden will demonstrate the viability of small scale sustainable organic agriculture.

Kujawa Elementary School

Our school garden will be a catalyst for change in obliterating hunger and poverty in our community as well as a living science lab where children can learn to appreciate seeing nature in action. We will use this garden to help end a myriad of problems that plague the children and the adults in our society through healthy eating. Because our students are so transient we will teach them how to create gardens in containers that can be moved from place to place.

Koa Elementary

Once we have our garden started the school cafeteria is going to use some of the vegetables we grow to cook food with. One of our goals is to donate food to some of the student's families who are going through difficult times. In addition we would like to teach health and nutrition to the whole school community. We want them to know where food comes from and how to be self-sustaining. That way even if they come on hard times they'll know what to do.

Knight Road Elementary School

Growing food within an educational context will enable us to cultivate a school climate for children at Knight Road Elementary School that fosters healthy growth transformation experiential education and community outreach. Gardening and farming will teach kids that hard work is not bad work that healthy eating is not bland and boring that exercise can be fun that working and exploring the earth brings much discovery. The garden will act as a living green space within a community currently

Kirtland Elementary

The Kirtland Community Garden Project is deeply based in community involvement integrated garden-based curriculum into the school day and increased nutrition and food consciousness for the youth through eco-literacy and service learning projects. At Kirtland we have a community that is both underfed and overfed; the youth that we interact with have high levels of obesity and extremely limited access to healthy nutritious foods. Through interaction with the garden they will glean many rewards.

KIPP DC

The project goal is to expose students in the Shaw community a traditionally underserved Washington DC neighborhood to healthy lifestyle choices by practicing organic gardening techniques and healthy eating habits. The preschool through 8th grade students who will participate in garden activities are nearly 99% African American and 83% are from low-income families. Once the garden beds are proven successful we would like to add Wolly Pockets to expand the garden to other areas of Shaw campus.

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