Garden Classrooms

East End Community School

Our goals are to intensify our use of the garden to grow more healthy food for students and to provide more students with opportunities to participate in the garden in a hands-on manner. Thus far we have concentrated on building the garden and establishing it as a key part of the school community. The project is in a prime location and moment; it could be the focal point of intergenerational and multi-cultural community activities as well as the lifeblood of interdisciplinary learning at EECS.

East Elementary School

Our goal is to strengthen our community through increased self-reliance and volunteer engagement by involving teachers students their families and community in garden food production nutrition education and food system educational activities. We will enhance and maintain two school gardens increasing production and access to local food. Infrastructure and systems will be upgraded and created. We will acquire necessary tools and supplies to increase and sustain community engagement.

East Cobb Christian School

Our goals are to: (1) instill a love of nature through active discovery and interdisciplinary learning; (2) impact nutritional and environmental attitudes by planting tending harvesting and eating flowers and vegetables; (3) identify plants and harmful and helpful insects; (4) share our harvest in our community. ECCS students participate in service learning projects in our community and help Must Ministry Cobb Pregnancy Center Summerhill Ministry and Project Mail Call.

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.

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