Garden Classrooms

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.

Hazlet Middle School

We would like to have a garden to grow organic vegtables. We will use on natural fertilizers. Students will learn about the growth cycle. We will have a Science lesson on photosynthesis and an Art lesson drawing beatiful vegtables. Students will learn how green living can help the planet.

Hazel Avenue Elementary School

This garden grant will expand our existing program to support the school's mission to provide healthier food options for students. We plan to create (6) additional container gardening areas purchase composting supplies and a storage shed. Teachers and students will have a positive user experience with this outdoor space as it relates to class management daily class schedules and the safety of the outdoor learning environment.

Haw Creek Elementary School

The Outdoor Committee and volunteers use their own tools for gardening transporting them in personal vehicles to and from school. With additional funding the school will be able to install a dedicated garden shed and purchase tools to be housed on site. This will allow teachers convenient access to required materials. Volunteers without their own tools can use the school tools to participate in workdays. Future Committee members will be able to count on having the tools and supplies they need.

Hastings Elementary

Our goals are to offer: Delivery of experiential classroom workshops; Support developing hands-on garden curriculum; Garden advice and support; Organizational support for school garden clubs; Professional development and teacher training; Connecting schools to other community members...We support educators who are interested in making the schoolyard garden indeed the entire community a relevant classroom within which students are encouraged to learn and engage

Harrisburg Middle School

The goal of Harrisburg Middle School's garden is to provide education engagement and access to local healthy food. We hope to empower youth to build an enduring relationship with healthy food and healthy lifestyles. The grant will help the existing school garden to flourish and continue to grow through enabling the school to purchase gardening supplies especially seed to eventually feed the stomachs and minds of the students and community in Harrisburg.

Harris AgriScience 7 Technology Center

Our goal is to raise 24 heads of lettuce per month for twice monthly donation to the Bloomfield Methodist Church Soup Kitchen. We aim to raise 100 pounds of fish for sale at a market in Oct. and donation to the Soup Kitchen. The grant will make it possible for us to test our scale-ability from our current operation to one that is more commercially oriented and self-sustaining. We hope to expand to donate fresh produce to the town Senior Center lunch program and sell the extra at market.

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