Garden Classrooms

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.

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.

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