Garden Classrooms

Eakin Elementary School

Teach students about connection between everyday food choices and community health environment and themselves. They will develop a respect & appreciation for their health health of other living things and the environment while gaining joy from collaborative work and accomplishments...Students will understand seasonality and specific connections between seasons plants & activities associated with food from seed to table...Teachers incorporate garden into classroom activity throughout year

E.K. Powe Elementary School

E.K. Powe respectfully requests support for the construction of infrastructure for the Peace Garden to create a permanent outdoor classroom space. We have learned from our experiences working with exuberant children that certain garden elements such as fencing and raised beds are essential to success. Working with a local landscape designer and an architect we have incorporated these elements into our landscape. The design phase is nearly complete and we are fundraising to realize our goals.

Dutch Valley Elementary School

Dutch Valley Elementary School has greatly benefited from our Wetlands Project. Students are not only learning about life and its extremely complex make-up they are watching it happen in these wetland areas. We would like to extend this project by adding a vegetable garden! The students vegetable garden is all theirs to experiment with and develop gardening skills that will be useful for life. While they care for their plants they learn about the food cycle and eat what they have grown!

Durham Education Center

Grant funds would be used to renovate the Durham Education Center garden; allow students to grow produce for lunch and make the connection between planting eating and local food security issues. Funds would also be used to expand the growing space and add season extenders at the Youth Farm at Durham Elementary School. This would make it possible for the garden to involve more students feed more of the community and sustain more service projects.

Dunbar Elementary School

This application builds on our programs and addresses identified needs widening the community to be served through new community collaborations increasing availability of locally grown produce and expanding involvement with families in food production for Dunbar Elementary School the city of St. Louis. Farmers master gardeners registered dietitians professional chefs and SLU students will collaborate to provide experiences that ensure the sustainability of the program.

Dry Creek Elementary School

Our garden was originally built in 1996. Over the years our garden has been neglected and needs extensive work to get it up and running again. We have 6 garden beds these garden beds need to be re-built as the wood is crumbling. We also invision a decomposed granite walk way and a pumpkin patch for the kids to grow pumpkins for our annual Harvest Festival. This grant will make it possible for the community to come together and make our dreams of a school garden come to live.

Doyle Park Elementary School

We plan to develop a tradition in gardening that weaves all learning modalities into grade level core curriculum as well as teach respect responsibility and reciprocity. The students and families will learn about organic gardening nutrition education recycling and composting. We plan to supplement the school salad bar with fresh seasonal vegetables and provide our participating families with produce during the summer months.

Downtown Montessori Academy

Our Garden goal is to be able to establish a raised bed garden large enough so that the entire student body can participate in all stages of growing organic vegetables. Being able to do this would allow children in an urban environment who might otherwise have no opportunity to grow food learn how to garden and to directly benefit from being able to consume the foods they grow.

Douglas. L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School

Our goal each year for our garden club is to educate our students on how plants are grown their needs for survival how to properly care for plants (fruits and vegetables) how to use the fruits and vegetables that we grow in order to eat healthier and how to ultimately grow and maintain their own gardens at home. This grant would enable us to purchase seeds soil and necessary tools for our club and to be able to afford to send seeds/seedlings home with our students to start their gardens.

Dougherty Valley High School

Participation Integration Beautification Appreciation are the cornerstones of our garden project closely followed by Innovation Experimentation Observation Reflection. Providing our students a safe and social space where they can engage in positive interactions while gaining an understanding of how food is planted grown harvested and prepared. Learning about sustainability seasonality cooperative work respect for self and others and wellness through knowledge of healthy choices.

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