Garden Classrooms

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.

Harriet Tubman School

Through the Living Laboratory program Greater Newark Conservancy has brought Newark Public School children outdoors to explore nature. This garden is becoming a diverse and vital resource for the entire school community. Children are not simply observers of nature but active stewards both benefactors and beneficiaries of the produce of the garden. Cultivating the garden gives students a direct connection to where food comes from.

Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School

Directly across the street from HPEM a lot stands vacant and steadily dilapidating. Though now a neighborhood eyesore this lot has endless untapped potential as an economic and nutritional resource and a neighborhood development tool. The students of HPEM their families and greater community will work together to transform a rundown lot into a financially and nutritionally contributive vegetable garden an outdoor classroom and a neighborhood mural.

Hardy Middle School

The edible garden will be the project focal point with seasonal crops and vegetation and integrating opportunities for students and teachers to develop their scientific thinking and inquiry skills. We plan on setting aside raised beds for classes or afterschool programs to conduct inquiry-based research.Students and community members will participate in the planting schedule and year-round maintenance. A community member will serve on the advisory board. The Community will be apart of events.

Goler Community Garden at the Downtown Health Plaza

  Our garden is located at a safety net health clinic has 65,000 patient visits a year.  The clinic serves Pediatric, Ob/Gyn and Adult Medicine patients.  The garden provides fresh produce to the clinics at no charge as well as providing learning opportunities for all the neighborhood.  There are regular workdays for all volunteers with special times for instruction on gardening.  Also there are cooking classes for all ages.

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