Garden Classrooms

Heskett Middle School

This Garden Grant will make it possible for children in our district access to local farm fresh and healthy food options. Our students will gain valuable hands on experiences where they can learn the journey of our food. Our important goal is to incorporate positive nutritional choices environmental responsibility and pride in our student

Heritage Elementary School

The main goal of our school garden program is to educate and enrich the learning experience for our students. The garden helps us teach important science math and health concepts. It also develops character traits such as respect and responsibility. Our garden helps us create and maintain relationships in the larger community. We partnered with local chefs to teach our students healthy ways to prepare our food. We offer gardening workshops to neighbors. We offer surplus food to food banks.

Henry Whittemore Elementary School

There are many who can benefit from and appreciate the beauty of school gardens but flourishing gardens take years to become well established. Gardens also require a dedicated and knowledgeable gardener to remain useful and beautiful over time. Our goal is to maintain an infrastructure that supports school gardeners over time while maximizing as many avenues of participation for as many participants (students teachers parents cafeteria custodial staff and community volunteers) as possible.

Henry Dearborn Middle School

These funds will support the creation and expansion of gardens at two Boston Public Schools in the Dudley Square neighborhood. The goal of these projects is to create opportunities for experiential learning which deepen students' connections to healthy food and local food systems.

Helix Charter High School

Our goal is to establish a school/community garden on school grounds where students and community residents can observe learn about and practice healthy sustainable gardening take classes (such as in gardening composting and integrated pest management) grow food for use in school meals and food banks and enhance community food security through intergenerational connections mentoring and resource sharing.

Helena H. Dyer Elementary School

The Dyer Elementary School Garden will make the statement that beauty and nature good nutrition and meaningful learning are values our community holds in common. The proposed garden will be the centerpiece of our school; it's their first site our students see in the morning and will send them off to their buses and parents with a positive image in their mind. Our garden will support every subject area and encourage the curiosity and excitement for learning that is inherent in every child.

Helen Major Elementary School

Major Elementary has planted a native prairie garden/vegetable garden since 2009. This takes up an area of 1 800 square feet located at the rear of the school building. Funds for the initial lay out were provided through a scholarship associated with the Texas Wildlife Association. Students have planted weeded watered and harvested two crops per year each of the past two school years. The new vegetable garden was just planted in early October. We have had parent and student workdays.

Hector A. Cafferatta Elementary School

Our community is plagued with obesity and a disconnect from the natural world. Creation of this garden would serve many purposes. It would connect the children to the earth in a meaningful way teach them the basic priniciples of growing and eating healthy food and get them outside using their bodies. Most importantly we hope the garden will ignite a passion in our students that will help them to live healthier lives and lead them to be zealous stewards of the earth.

Heathwood Hall Episcopal School

Each year Todd works with the 5th grade class to design and create a garden for habitat enhancement and service learning. The goal is to continue the K-12 gardening program reduce area that must be maintained by lawn equipment service learning and habitat restoration. Our idea is HORTUS: Historic Orchards Replicating Time Using Science - to create an edible forest - use heirloom fruit and berry trees with fruit and berry producing perennials as the understory. Harvests go to a food bank.

Health Wellness and Environmental Studies Magnet School

Our goal is to educate our children and parents in healthy living by providing learning opportunities in the gardens and student kitchen. Our theory is if they have ownership in the planting care giving harvesting preparing and cooking of fresh produce they will broaden their pallet for healthy foods. Because of our focus we have been able to tap into our local master gardeners hospital and university for community experts for advice and volunteers in creating our learning areas.

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