Garden Classrooms

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.

Coolville Elementary School

Students will learn about growing cycles teamwork nutritious eating habits and healthy activities. Each child will not only gain a valuable life skill in learning to garden but will gain a greater understanding of where food originates and those lessons will create healthier eating habits for them and their families. Ideally the garden will become a center of learning for Coolville Elementary a place where students can apply lessons from multiple subjects to the cultivation of the garden.

Columbus Elementary School

We've turned our current site into a vibrant space that provides demonstrations of multiple growing techniques and culturally specific foods...Please help us continue to exist and to nurture our land and our neighbors.Our mission is to teach inspire and encourage more food production on underutilized land in neighborhoods eager to be part of our changing food culture.It is the site itself that will meet the needs of this neighborhood by educating dialoging and promoting food security.

Colonial Forge High School

We are using a new curriculum which promotes using seasonal foods in healthy recipes. By having our own garden we will have more vegetables and fruits to work with. Our collaborative effort with the Special Ed department provides addtional learning opportunities for both groups of students to work together and learn from each other. What we do not can we can sell to staff and encourage all CFHS to eat healthy.

Code Academy Alternative School

The main purpose of attaining the garden grand is to sustain and expand a project started in the fall of 2010. While the Code garden project has progressed there are certain things that could be achieved with more funding such as increased student participation better garden upkeep and environmentally friendly actions improved community outreach and involvement and enhanced curriculum initiatives involving the project.

Cochiti School

Our goal is to improve nutrition and prevent obesity by providing education about healthy affordable foods through school and community gardens. We want to see a change in students' eating habits and knowledge about healthy vs. unhealthy food. we hope to see this change by way of school gardens. With this grant we will be able to provide gardening equipment for the Cochiti school garden. We will also be ablt to support student exchange between the Cochiti garden and Santo Domingo garden.

Cobb Performance Learning Center/Marietta Performance Learning Center

Students will understand the types of plants best grown in Georgia's soil and the difference between fall and spring plants. They will learn about organic gardening and use those skills at their own homes. Students will understand the nutritional value of organic vegetables and most importantly will be involved in reducing hunger in their own community.

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