Garden Classrooms

Kihei Elementary School

SMSGP is dedicated to creating hands on outdoor learning experiences that cultivate curiosity about natural life cycles connect students to their food sources and inspire better nutrition choices. In addition to helping establish food gardens and living science labs in local schools we provide resources and curriculum support through community partnerships in agriculture science food education and nutrition.

Kihei Charter School

We are currently battling the arid and poor soil conditions of Kihei HI. There are also many local pests and plant diseases that cause devastation to our crops. We have recently begun composting this last month and are looking to monitor the nutrient quality of our soil and water. Thus our school would also like to use our garden as a learning agricultural lab to teach students how to monitor soil and water quality in addition to learning about bio-prevention of local pests/plant diseases.

Kiefer School

The garden provides a rich experience for over 100 special needs youth each summer. Youth are excited to see their hard work pay off during harvest as they enjoy the produce and share it with area food pantries. An educator from the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension service has taught youth healthy easy to prepare recipies using the produce grown. This grant will allow us to expand the garden plot increasing the amount of produce shared with local pantries.

Key Biscayne Community Church Day School

Outr goal is to show the children that they can do anything they put their minds to. They will work the garden through all stages from composting planting irrigating charting the growth and finally eating the fruits and vegetables and cooking different recipes. the grant will help us with the cost of purchasing tools dirt seeds hoses composter etc. The kids will make items with the produce and give samples at the fresh market that the church hosts in spring.

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.

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