Garden Classrooms

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.

Julia A. Stark Elementary School

Stark's garden provides opportunities for education teamwork creative play and nature exploration. It sparks student curiosity; helps them develops patience and collaboration skills; teaches them to nurture and care for their community their school and the environment; and helps bring the curriculum to life. With Whole Foods' funding for teacher training we can integrate our organic gardening program throughout the curriculum and engage all Stark students in garden-based learning.

Juban Parc Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to introduce 4th graders to the art and science of gardening. Students will develop critical thinking skills environmental skills by recycling and composting leadership and life skills.This goal is designed to help students become good gardeners and good citizens so they can make a positive contribution to the world as adults. The students will plant maintain the garden and harvest the vegetables that will be used for classroom education and for the area food bank.

ESYNOLA, Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School

The gardens at Clark Prep, tucked in the corridor between the two school buildings, are a colorful and peaceful oasis of flowers, vines, grasses, fruit trees and herbs. The gardens provide a quiet and beautiful place to sit, hear the rustling of leaves, smell orange blossoms in the spring, see monarch and fritillary butterflies foraging for nectar, and harvest and taste herbs like mint, rosemary, and lavender. Citrus trees and flowering vines checker the courtyard and offer students and teachers a chance to take in a moment of beauty and calm during their busy days.

Jose De Jesus & Maria Luisa Cardenas De Vega Elementary

We plan to use the garden as a learning tool for our students as well as provide them with hands on experiences. We have vertical teams of science teachers planning and implementing science and math related outdoor activities. Our PTA also hosts an Earth Day celebration where the community is invited to participate in the planting and development of the garden. The presence of the community is also felt during the summer months as they tend to the garden while school is out.

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