Garden Classrooms

Kersey Creek Elementary School

The goal for KCES gardening program Growing Green Comets is to implement gardening and agricultural lessons which incorporate reading math science and social studies year around in the classroom and in the garden. Starting this fall parent volunteers are using Agriculture in the Classroom national curriculum with all classes K-5 which include the above subjects. With the inclusion of this curriculum the gardening program needs additional resources for the students when working in the garden

Kepner Middle School

The Denver Office of Economic Development provided funding to build a greenhouse at this site. Funding for the project covers the exterior build but does not provide funding for the internal systems development. This grant will allow us to build a high tech internal greenhouse monitoring system. In turn we will have a better means to interactively connect with students - truly bringing the garden into the classroom. Also this will allow for 4-season food production that is greatly needed.

Kent Elementary

Through the auspices of PTA we would like to help the school teach the children about growing vegetables and help families learn to grow and prepare healthy meals. This grant would provide funds for building seven raised beds on an asphalt playground (urban school-high poverty). Local gardeners and community partnerships would support education and management of gardens throughout the gardening year. Each raised bed would be built and maintained by students in grades K-6.

Kennedy Krieger High School Career and Technology Center

Grant funds will allow students to grow culinary herbs for the My Sister's Place Womens shelter giving them the opportunity to work with a wide variety of herbs and learn skills that would otherwise not be possible due to prohibitive costs of growing some foods. This would be of great help to the shelter which often relies heavily on donated foods. Wooly pockets will help allow the school to grow and donate products which are unable to be grown and maintained at the shelter.

Kendall Elementary School

School gardens increase nutrition awareness environmental awareness academic achievement life skills and community building. The grant will allow us to continue to provide trained garden educator staff whose job is to develop and sustain compelling outdoor classrooms interwoven into the learning culture of each partner school and to ensure that school gardens grows in conversation with each other and that curricular resources and policy advocacy work benefit all partner schools.

Kellman Brown Academy

A Whole Foods grant to help fill our garden will enable us meet our goal of engaging students in planting harvesting composting and learning about biblical agricultural laws. The garden will be a source of delicious food for student lunches but more importantly a learning tool to teach students the benefits of gardening. In addition KBA has been working with a nutritionist and the Hazon CSA to review our lunch menu and is planning to offer healthier lunch options starting Fall of 2011.

Kate Bond Elementary School

The garden goal is to give children the experience of growing their own plants learn about the science of gardening and learn about nutrition of whole foods. The grant will allow us to establish a garden for the 1 062 children who attend school here. The garden will open up the world of nature and caring for the earth to Memphis children who may never experience it otherwise. There are few school gardens in the city and we will be setting an example of prioritizing outdoor nature education.

Kagel Elementary School

The garden provides a unique Farm to Table model of learning. Students learn about healthy eating sample produce and learn healthy recipes. Currently there is no room for nutrition education within classrooms in Milwaukee Public Schools. This program fills that need by providing children with nutrition education and hands-on school garden experience. The program also specifically targets low-income schools ensuring that students receive nutrition education in combination with meal programs.

Juniata Park Academy

This garden was created as a memorial for a beloved teacher that passed away last year. Built in her honor the Ellen Rae Greenberg Garden is a testament to the strength beauty and resilience of our students and community members. This garden provides nourishment to the souls and bellies of our school community. This grant will enable to us to expand our garden buy more seeds grow more produce and plant fruit trees the bounty of which will go towards feeding our community.

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