Garden Classrooms

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.

Corvallis Environmental Center: Edible Corvallis Initiative

Our Farm to School programs makes connections between our food system and our school system. We work directly with school districts to procure and promote locally grown foods. Our program is working to increase the use of local foods, encourage our children to make healthy eating choices, and support regional farmers.

Cape Fear Center For Inquiry

The primary goal of goal of the CFCI garden project is to create a dynamic learning environment that provides students with hands on experimentation. The ecosystem of the garden will enable students to explore the environment while incorporating subjects such as art math social studies language arts and science. The grant will enable our school to proceed with the initial stage of the garden plan which includes building raised beds for vegetables purchasing seeds and seedling plants.

Coronado Elementary

Access to nature means many different opportunities for the community at Coronado: a chance to explore the natural world to understand the plant life cycle to have the responsibility of a living thing to beautify their community to work with quantities and growth in a hands-on manner to be growers of the food the eat. The community will be able to invest in a long-term project that will end with a tangible product and skillset they will be able to carry with them beyond the classroom.

Cornwell Avenue School

VISION: To create an environment that enhances educational opportunities stewardship and community building..Our mission is to provide the students of the West Hempstead Union Free School District with an outdoor environment that connects to and supports their academic achievements teaches the benefits of a healthy lifestyle exposes them to the importance of environmental stewardship and to foster a cooperative spirit among schools families and the surrounding community.

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