Garden Classrooms

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.

John Adams Middle School

Students who attend public school in LA are growing up with little knowledge as to where their food comes from or how much work it takes to produce it. This lack of connection with their food source makes it very difficult for them to care about the quality of the food they eat and the impact their food choice has on our planet and their health. Our goal is to use the garden and outdoor kitchen as an outdoor classroom to re-connect students with their environment and community.

John A Crookshank Elementary School

Currently the garden at Crookshank Elementary consists of one 8'x4' raised bed and is used by only one fourth grade class. Our goal is to expand the existing gardening space so that is it available as a teaching space for the entire fourth grade eventually involving other grade levels as well. The expansion would give all fourth grade classes the opportunity to learn about healthy and sustainable food while giving them a hands-on learning environment that can be used across the curriculum.

Joe T. Robinson Middle School

The students will learn from beginning to end about food production and reap the fruits of their labor. The garden will benefit the community and hopefully bring the community closer together.

Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island

This grant would enable us to extend our growing season by creating cold-frames for some of our raised beds by changing the climate zone of our raised beds from 6A to 7B or 8A allowing our students to grow into the winter and to begin spring planting earlier. The grant would also allow us to create a drip irrigation system which would benefit students' time and the summer volunteers' time. Additionally the grant would help us make much needed repairs to existing beds.

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