Garden Classrooms

Franklin Elementary School

Students live in urban area. 59% are English learners parents have limited English. School is 100% free breakfast and lunch. Poor nutrition affordable food are concerns. By growing own food we want to incorporate health nutrition curriculum in science math English science art journaling support for environment and sustainability. Building community between different ethnic groups through sharing favorite foods is key. We want this to be an extended community focus.

Frank Del Olmo Elementary School

The goal of our garden project is to foster the reconnection of our students to the land as the source of their food. We will teach our students to be advocates for healthy eating by learning to prepare the foods they grow through first-hand gardening experience. Families in our community do not have access to affordable fresh produce and this project will not only be able to provide this for them but will also help to foster a deeper sense of community connectedness to each other and nature.

Francis S. DeMasi Elementary School

The DeMasi family would like to create a school garden where all of our children and their families can participate in learning how to build plant care for and harvest fruits and vegetables in a safe organic sustainable way. This grant would enable DeMasi to develop a raised bed garden that would not only help children see where food comes from but also appreciate the outdoors and make a lifelong connection with nature. This grant will allow us to educate the next generation on gardening.

Francis Lacy Elementary School

Our mission for the vegetable garden is to create an integrated learning environment inclusive of science , math, reading, writing, social studies, healthful living, community, culture and food sovereignty/access. We have installed one 3x6, three 4x4 and three 3x8 raised beds.  Central to our mission was the formation of a Nature & Garden Club, comprised of students who meet 6-8 weeks in fall/spring to plan/manage anything connected to the garden's mission.

Forest Grove Community School

The goal of this garden is to provide a natural space for student and community learning. Outdoor activities are a crucial part of the place-based school curriculum and students practice garden design botany zoology garden maintenance and harvesting/food preparation in this space. In addition community work-parties pot-lucks and seminars occur in this space. 

Foothills Elementary School

With our garden we aim to.* provide students an opportunity to grow and eat fresh organic produce..* offer an outdoor classroom for teachers where they can use a hands-on approach in teaching educational standards..* provide an inclusive garden experience for our autistic students and a dedicated horticultural therapy and soothing area inside of the garden..* offer a fertile inexpensive deer-proof solution for community families who want to raise their own food but have no means to do so.

Flowery Elementary School

Our goal is to continue bringing the children out to the garden to educate about growing vegetables and fruits. We also want to expand our nutrition curriculum with an emphasis on the children making their own healthy snacks from what they grow in their garden.The grant will help to ensure that we can continue this program on an on-going basis.

Flora Thew Elementary School

We hope to establish Escalante Community Garden as a educational resource for Thew Elementary to supplement their curriculum as well as continuing our work with after school programs. The garden could provide a concrete examples of science social and cultural concepts that are regularly taught only in classrooms.

Field Park Elementary School

The grant would make it possible for us to add additional growing beds for community outreach. The beds would be used to create an educational farm stand where students would sell harvested crops to the community of Western Springs as a school fundraiser. Field Park Garden would also add bed(s) whose crops would be solely dedicated to a local soup kitchen.

Fernbrook Elementary School

Phase II Fernbrook Indoor Student Center for Horticulture (FISCH) will give students hands-on gardening opportunities and heighten their awareness of nature. The Whole Kids Garden Grant will be used to purchase GroLab(TM) Light Gardens to transform a drab space in the school library into a vibrant indoor garden center during cold months. Students will use Phase I worm compost to harvest seedlings that will be planted in Phase III the school's Outdoor Educational Center (OEC) in the spring.

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