Garden Classrooms

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.

Covenant Christian School

With grant money the school will install a small greenhouse. In the greenhouse students will grow transplants for spring planting in both the vegetable garden and the prairie and grow vegetables into early winter. It will also give our 6th grade students the platform for developing and running a small business. In the greenhouse they can grow hundreds of tomato transplants for sale to the community in late spring (or whatever else they decide to grow for sale).

Covedale Elementary School

We would like to build and establish garden beds for growing vegetables. These beds would provide food for the school community providing fresh sustainable produce. We would like to involve a greater number of students in the gardening club and tie the garden to district curriculum and State and Federal Standards. We would like to instill a greater appreciation in our students the work involved in producing healthy food and establish a connection to the land.

Country Day School of Arlington-Montessori

Our garden goal is to create "garden" areas outside/ near each classroom so that it is easily accessible to for students/teachers to nuture - tend and care for. Lessons given throughout the year as well as giving the grown vegetables to a local mission that collects foods for the less privileged. In years past (at our previous location) foods were taken to Mission Arlington and a local convalescant home. Additionally we have also grown herbs in the past that are used to season foods prepared

Cougar Run Elementary

The garden allows us to teach the story of food from its origins and classifications to the idea that it is a living thing with a history. We looking for financial support to continue to fund our seedlings supplies and soil. With adequate financial support we can build a outdoor compost bin. A grant would also allow us to improve our physical space to provide additional seating in the garden to expand our lessons. We are also looking to plant and flower and herb area within the space.

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