Garden Classrooms

Ecology Education, Inc.

Our current planning efforts are focused on ensuring that our programs remain of the highest quality even while we increase the number of students served and the number of programs we provide. A grant from Whole Kids will allow us to purchase gardening supplies seeds soil and other educational tools to ensure that we can continue to offer the kind of health-based education we provide at Ferry Beach Ecology School.

Ecole Saint Catherine's School

By the time each child has left our elementary school in Grade 6 they will have planted a seed harvested a vegetable and will have prepared and eaten a meal using food from the garden.

Ecole Elementaire Catholique Rene-Lamoureux

Our gardening goal is to increase access to fresh healthy food food growing spaces and food education in our community. Two challenges that our partner schools face with independent gardens are teacher time and summer maintenance. By including community partners and volunteers our goal is to share the work and the reward while learning about food together. By working collectively in public spaces we will learn from our diversity get to know one another better and enjoy delicious healthy food

Ecole Cedardale

We would like to have a school garden to teach the children about their food the environment their connection to the plant and animal world. We grew "a salad" with an assortment of vegetables in our little strip garden in the past two years. We shared our veggies with the whole school and it was a great success. The children were enthusiastic and loved the results of their labour. We would like to share the harvest with local families and neighbours as well when we have a larger garden.

Eastport Elementary School

Through the creation of three 4x8 foot raised vegetable beds and expanded composting program we will: deepen and increase student's local food literacy and understanding of healthy foods; empower them with the knowledge of how to use and grow locally available foods and; provide teachers with hands-on opportunities to engage youth in all subject areas in meaningful ways while teaching them basic gardening skills.

Eastover Elementary School

The Eastover Gardens are an extension of the classroom are used to bring curriculum to life and provide a real-world context for learning. Students learn about science social studies math and language arts in the gardens. Students also learn about sustainability and nutrition. The garden serves as a place for students staff and community members to work learn and play together. It is a place for people to appreciate nature locally grown fresh produce and the spirit of cooperation

Eastern Christian High School

Our goal is to develop a protected inner courtyard to enhance student learning across many diverse disciplines. Winding paths among wildflowers will invite reflection reading writing art and music. Raised beds will provide a space for hands-on learning connections with food and raise awareness of hunger locally and abroad. Sustainability practices will promote responsibility leadership and stewardship. Visits from other schools will plant seeds of change in surrounding communities.

East Lake Elementary School

The goal of building and maintaining gardens for East Lake Elementary school is to help incorporate science waste reduction growing food for consumption and healthy eating habits. The community will benefit from eating the produce that grows in the garden the students will grow flowers for the Senior Citizen center Neighborhood Associations and for elderly/ sick parents of the staff or students families therefore benefitting people that are directly or indirectly related to the school.

East Hampton High School

The East Hampton High School Sustainable Garden will be an educational setting that provides hands-on learning to students in an outdoor environment. It will connect students to the natural world by providing them with an opportunity to grow their own food and develop an ecosystem in an effective outdoor classroom. By giving students the responsibility to grow care for examine and enjoy a garden of their own it gives them the capacity to care about their local environment.

East Gloucester Elementary School

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days.

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