Garden Classrooms

Hamilton Elementary Middle School

Our first goal is to have the ability to grow and provide healthy food for our students. The second goal is to educate our parents on childhood obesity and the importance of a healthy diet. The third goal is to expand our garden size to incorporate more of use of our campus open space.

Hamel Elementary School

In a world where our children are bombarded with processed foods and an overall lack of exposure to nature it is crucial to educate our students in regard to nutrition and our natural world. It is our belief that by teaching our students the various aspects of growing harvesting and preparing nutritious foods from a very young age we can not only educate them in regard to the importance of nutrition but also foster an appreciation of the environmental well-being of our community.

Gulf Gate Elementary

I want to create 6 100 sq foot raised beds with railroad ties. I want cooperative groups to be responsible for their specific bed. This would entail choosing seed growing the seed in a green house cleaning plot transplanting and watering and weeding. Each group would share their yield with other students and through E. Sarasota I want to invite local chefs to come in and prepare dishes from our yield. I plan to incorporate academics through a mini farmers market in the future.

Gulf Coast Community Services Association

Our garden goal for Head Start is to give the satisfying experiences of planting cultivating and harvesting fruits and vegetables and to create a lifelong appreciation for healthy living. The grant will help our Head Start address pervasive health concerns such as poor nutrition and inactivity which leads to childhood obesity. By supporting our community gardens you can help our children and parents establish links between plants gardening food and health.

Greenview Upper Elementary School

Our first goal is to teach the studetns about healthy food choices and the ease with which they can grow some of these foods. Our second goal is to foster a love of experimenting with food by growing tasting and cooking. Our last goal is to share and be stewards to the community.We would like to sell our first and subsequent harvests and with the profits create a scholarship for a student that is majoring in a horticulture program.

Greenbrier Elementary School

Our goal is for every Charlottesville City School student to experience garden-related programming as a part of his/her core classes tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of each school. We promote nutritional awareness help to improve student health and foster appreciation for locally grown food. This grant will enable CSG to develop schoolyard gardens in three of our city's elementary schools while maintaining the pilot garden at Buford Middle School.

Greenbelt Middle School at the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom

Since the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens project sprouted in 2010, Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society (CHEARS) has established outdoor classroom gardens that are multi-generational, handicapped accessible, beautifully artistic, and are a great example showing how to grow local healthy food at home.

Green Street Academy

This grant would allow us to expand the square footage of the garden help us create and build our own irrigation system create rain barrels and create compost bins. Additionally we are planning on raising chickens from eggs to hens so that we can educate the students about the importance of responsible ethical animal husbandry and the connection between growing food and raising animals.

Green Elementary School

The primary goal of the garden is to help students eat better. This grant will make it possible for the garden to produce healthy (and health-producing) fruits and vegetables. The grant will help to create an outdoor classroom where students can learn the importance of good food. The grant funds will be used to build a hoop-house so the students can grow in the garden year-round. This grant money will enable us to enhance the community by providing a beautiful productive and positive garden.

Green Children's House Foundation

Green Children's House and The Need to Feed Inc. have formed a wonderful community partnership which has allowed the children from GCH to have access to an outdoor classroom environment. Because it is a hands-on cross disciplinary tool gardening with preschoolers has been a great way to connect them to the outdoors and agriculture. We are seeking funds to expand the children's gardens to include themed garden boxes that will teach them a variety of educational concepts.

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