Garden Classrooms

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.

Fennell Elementary School

Our school garden goal will be an extension pf our current gardening activities.Students will plant vegetable garden work extensively in the greenhouse and begin composting and recycling activities. The school will use this project to help channel students energy in a constructive way. These activities will involve parents and community members. The project will provide fresh vegetables for local nursing home and senior citizens.

Family Services, Inc.- Child Development

Our program serves 550 children and their families at or below poverty level. Goals are to teach our families self-sufficiency good nutrition and counter the high incidence of childhood diabetes. We serve approx. 40 homeless families;we will provide them fruits/vegetables. Children's classroom curriculum will include all 8 domains from literacy to physical activity. Second Harvest Food Bank is our community partner; we will give back to an agency always in need that helps so many families.

Fairview Community School

The Community Roots Food Garden at Fairview Community School features 15 raised vegetable beds along with a mixed native, fruit and berry garden. Nanaimo Foodshare provides weekly garden classes for students from K-5 to learn about growing, maintaining and harvesting fresh healthy food. Students especially love to grow and eat the fresh peas and salad greens. Food from the garden is used in the school's monthly Farm 2 School salad bars and community members love munching on fresh vegetables throughout the summer months.

Fairfield High Preparatory School

The goal of the school garden is to create an environment that supports healthy eating and active living for the Fairfield Community. This school-based initiative will set the community in motion to take an active role in addressing their obesity rates. We plan to work together as a community to make fresh fruits and vegetables more available provide nutrition education and create opportunities to increase physical activities.

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