Garden Classrooms

Johnson County Montessori School

The goals of the Montessori school's gardening program are to introduce children to the fresh fruits and vegetables grown in our garden and incorporate this produce into the snacks and meals served at the preschool. We hope to increase the children's nutritional awareness and options for healthy eating. A school gardening program will help us meet a goal of serving fresh local produce at every meal and teach children about where their food comes from.

John William Boich

The purpose and goal is for all teachers to teach food literacy throughout the school. The funding will allow us to purchase materials for raised beds plants seeds and other materials that will help maintain the garden. We also believe in food literacy so funding can help buy resources (education and kids books cookbooks etc.) to give students staff and parents access to healthy viable and sustainable options. Volunteer parents would maintain and take from the garden in the summer.

John O'Connell High School

John Connell High School's newly revitalized school garden will allow students to participate in the Schoolyard to Market Program. They will perform hands-on work in the school garden take field trips to the farmers market and local farms learn from market experts and sell their produce at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. They will learn to grow food and will gain a greater appreciation for eating fresh vegetables.

John J. Daly Elementary School

15. Research supports the theory that children succeed in eating healthier food throughout their lives when they have the experience of growing it themselves and this is our primary goal for school gardens. In addition we encourage 100% participation in the garden by urging teachers to use the garden to support other curriculum subjects such as health and fitness. We hope that each child will continue growing vegetables throughout their life motivated by this positive early life experience.

John Hopkins Elementary

This grant will fund the garden expansion including finishing our outdoor classroom purchasing seeds and plants for our native species cactus herb flower and vegetable plots. The grant will also purchase a fence to protect the garden from deer food samples to enhance garden projects and nutrition education goals when the garden is not producing (winter months) and materials to bolster our curriculum.

John Hay Community Academy

This grant is for NCP and JH gardens. The goal for NCP is to broaden environmental education initiatives and provide more food for local anti-hunger organizations. Funds will go to garden expansion new tools and minimal stipends for low-income teen summer gardeners. John Hay garden will engage very low-income students in hands-on growing of food crops and teach students about how they can improve their health. Funds will allow for garden expansion and the inclusion of more students.

ESYNOLA, John Dibert Community School

Located right off the hustle and bustle of Orleans Avenue are the gardens at John Dibert Community School. These gardens showcase the entrance of the school and serve to welcome students, parents, teachers, staff, and butterflies alike! Daily and throughout the year at these gardens, the children and adults in our school community have the opportunity to delight in the harvest and smells of fresh herbs grown outside their front door, and keenly observe lizards and a variety of local and migratory butterflies who find their homes in our large habitat garden beds.

John D. Pierce Middle School

We will break ground on a new harvest garden this spring providing our students with an opportunity to learn horticulture food production and leadership skills firsthand. Working cooperatively students will explore food from seed to plate growing vegetables eating produce and learning healthy food choices through hands-on interaction. The garden will be a working classroom complementing health PE and science curriculum while also teaching life skills valuable outside the classroom.

John C. Fremont Elementary School

Our goal for the garden is to build a community space where the school and the YMCA can teach students their families and neighborhood residents about the science and practice of growing food the relationship between food and nutrition and the importance of cooperation and sharing the fruits of their labors. The garden will provide a place where everyone can grow their own produce in an area where there is a dearth of home grown food.

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