Garden Classrooms

Dancing Moose Montessori School

The grant will fund a garden program for a Montessori school that will taught in a community garden. The school has 12 classrooms;toddlers through the second grade. The garden program will unite the community garden with the Montessori school creating a strong partnership. The program will introduce children to gardening with a hands-on approach in an outdoor classroom. The children will bring home the knowledge they learn in the garden about growing food and healthy eating.

Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle School

With this grant we will put in a perennial fruit bush orchard. These plants will be managed and maintained by the school and community and the fruit will be distributed to local residents who must currently feed their families without the help of a local grocery store. Students will gain valuable hands-on learning experience and will have the chance to mentor with local high school students. Residents will gain access to healthier food and learn more about nutrition.

Cunningham Elementary School

Our goal is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through the education conservation and involvement in civic responsibilities in our students. 95% of our students live in apartment complexes with no room for gardening. Having a school garden is a simple way to educate kids who believe that tomatoes grow from the ground and cannot differentiate between an orange and an apple tree. This has led to higher scores in science assessments.

Crowley Kindergarten School

Our goal is to establish school gardens where students learn important life skills in multi-discipline areas (science math healthy living and language arts). In addition to gardening skills this project will teach teamwork and good character traits like trustworthiness respect fairness caring responsibility and citizenship. The youth will utilize products from the garden consuming vegetables and in some cases participating in a service-learning project to donate to needy families.

Crossroads Accelerated Academy

With this grant our students will experience the impact of local food production on developing communities by continuing to help PUC establish the only source of local organic produce in our area. They will then apply these lessons to our campus by creating a school garden to supplement school lunches and serve as a hands-on teaching tool for our overall curriculum. Finally this process will empower them to harvest their own visions for the growth of their respective neighborhoods.

Crockett Elementary School

Since the school's recent renovation the previous habitat area has both suffered from construction while also expanded in size. Three new garden beds await planting and classroom use. Both our pollinator garden and pond habitat require maintenance due to heavy construction traffic. It is the hopes of the community (teachers and parents) to utilize the garden to spearhead a nutrition campaign that encourages local production of food at the school level and in the greater 1st Ward community.

Creekside High School

Our garden goal is to have students experience the process of setting up planting maintaining and then harversting the crops. The idea is to teach students about the food cycle and also healthy food choices. The garden will be maintained by students on campus with teachers serving as advisors for the program. We have an afterschool program three days a week in which students will assist with the garden. The principal of the school will also assist with all projects.

Creative Montessori Learning Center

We would like to start the Woolly School Garden program at Creative Montessori Learning Center. This grant would make it possible to create a living classroom to grow fresh healthy food to use in classroom lessons in the school kitchen and at snack time and during healthy cooking lessons for parents. The vertical garden and alternative garden boxes will be a model for other sites demonstrating that gardening can take place even on concrete and chain link fences.

Crawford Educational Complex

The Crawford Garden promotes healthy communities through access to food education and awareness building. In addition to fresh produce the IRC provides youth with at least 5 hours of educational gardening programs per week. At least 50% of youth participants provide educational presentations about gardening composting or healthy food. The garden program benefits the students physical health and mental well-being. This grant allows IRC to keep the garden program active during the summer.

Craven County Board of Education

Our goal is to provide greater opportunities for improved nutrition for young people. We will increase nutrition awareness and further advance the mission of the YMCA to provide opportunities for youth development healthy living and social responsibility. An important part of our focus involves building community and providing opportunities for students to develop the self-confidence discipline and social skills to take on challenges they will face in school work and their personal lives.

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