Garden Classrooms

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.

Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church

Our garden goal is to grow and expand our current community garden. This grant will allow us to have a successful garden to pay for water seeds and transplants and to pay for training for young people to participate in the garden.

Grant School

We have built a community vegetable and herb garden at Grant Elementary school, supporting a gardening and nutrition education program that began during the 2011-2012 school year. Each grade level has two 4' x 8' garden boxes and local volunteers work with each class to plant, then later harvest and taste healthy foods straight from the garden. Gardening and nutrition curriculum is delivered year after year, teaching children the importance of a healthy nutrition and healthy choices.

Grand Rapids Montessori Public School

Grand Rapids Montessori is one of the only Montessori schools in Grand Rapids. It is part of Grand Rapids Public Schools and is one of the top performing programs in the district. 70% of GRM students are eligible for free or reduced lunch and 62% of the population is minority students. Montessori methods of education make school gardens a logical part of student's education. Parents and volunteers are already working on several raised beds and are eager for new players to get involved.

Graham Hill Elementary

One of our main goals is to create an outdoor classroom where teachers can make classroom lessons more powerful by allowing students to have hands-on application with nature. This grant will allow us to purchase outdoor tables and seating where students can sit to share their harvest, record their observations, do nature drawings, or develop their writing skills. Having seating will allow more classes to utilize the space and benefit from it.

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