Garden Classrooms

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.

Excelsior Youth Center

Excelsior Youth Center's ultimate goal in terms of the garden is to foster an interest in science horticulture and green industries that will serve our at risk students during and well beyond their stay with us by promoting academic achievement and creating career possibilities for them. Additionally the therapeutic potential of this garden will greatly enhance our students' experience as they both work in the garden with our volunteers and use it as a place of respite.

Everette Lee DeGolyer Elementary School

The school garden will allow parents teachers and students to take classroom learning outside allow the students to see first-hand how real life experiences and classroom learning connect give students and teachers shared experiences that they can build upon allow students to connect to the earth and see where food really comes from. We will use the garden to:build community; build vocabulary; allow kinesthetic learners to move outdoors; expose children to nature.

Eugene Field Elementary School

Our goal is to empower students to become agents of change in their communities. We believe that the experience of working in the garden and the many skills developed including problem-solving future-thinking teamwork hard work etc. are keys to breaking the cycle of poverty that exists in the communities where we work. The Whole Kids Foundation grant will continue to make our presence possible as we cultivate deeper relationships with students and parents and invite them into the garden to work learn and teach.

Estella Foothills High School

Generally we want our students to become more aware of healthy food choices and the importance of eating properly. Individual teachers and departments will use the garden with a more specific focus. Biology classes may use the garden to study small environments and the various relationships within a garden. The Foods class will be able to utilize many of the foods grown.

Erie Elementary School

Our school gardens serves as living classrooms or outdoor laboratories where our fourth and fifth grade children can apply academic subjects such as natural sciences mathematics languages and even fine arts. Our fourth and fifth grade children can practice their social and life skills and learn hands-on how to grow healthy food and eat well. Our teachers have cited an increased engagement through physical learning self-esteem and responsibility.

Emerson Elementary School

The main goal of the school garden is to improve Berwyn's eating habits. We hope the garden will infect the local community by first teaching kids life lessons about healthy eating nutrition and the varied benefits of whole foods over processed foods. They can then bring these lessons to their parents too many of whom now send kids to school with Lunchables and Funyuns. Second the garden will generate interest in home gardening so more Berwyn families will grow their own healthy food.

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