Garden Classrooms

Coastline Christian Academy of Santa Barbara County

The goal of the CCA garden is to expose students to gardening and healthy food choices. Children are more likely to try different vegetables and fruits and develop healthy eating habits when they are part of the process. The grant funds will support expansion of the existing garden the addition of an outdoor bulletin board to post information on the garden and development of materials to better integrate the garden into class instruction.

CLS Kinder Academy

Goal: To engage students and pantry clientele in good nutrition and teach gardening skills .Objectives: .1) Teach students and pantry clientele about good nutrition and gardening skills.2) Provide fresh produce to pantry attendees..Strategies:.Education will be classroom based and hands on practical experience in the garden. .The produce from this garden will be donated to the pantry; and 25% of the harvest will be sold to sustain the garden.

Cloverdale Elementary School

The goal of the school garden is to provide a hands-on learning experience for Kindergarten through 5th grade students. Having a garden will provide students with an opportunity to put in to practice curriculum concepts and skills teachers often need textbooks to teach. For example measuring and charting growth mapping the garden layout researching animals and insects that might help or hinder the garden monitoring how weather effects plant growth and understanding where our food comes from.

Clemente Martinez Elementary

Clemente Martinez goals are to provide all students at our school and in our community with the experience in creating and maintain a garden. Enabling the youth of the community to Create a Safe Space where they are able to interact with nature in a positive environment. Create Local Sustainable food Source for area residence and Food Banks. Engage and Educate the public on Nutrition Environment Stewardship Diversity and Civic Responsibility in cooperation with local Schools and Community.

Clara Barton Open School

Our school has a vision of beautifying school grounds through gardening while providing child interaction and learning in the gardens. This grant will allow us to begin our efforts by creating a vegetable garden. This prototype garden will involve parents teachers and children in creating and maintaining the garden and developing a related school curriculum. A vegetable garden will create an accessible hands-on experience for the children and foster interest and energy to expand our garden.

Citizens Leadership Academy (CLA)

Citizens Leadership Academy is a new school in our founding year and we have a courtyard in the center of our school that would be perfect for a school garden. The garden would provide vegetables for our students and their families; about 75% of our families qualify for the U.S. Free and Reduced Meal status. The Whole Foods Garden Grant would provide us with the funding to create the raised beds and to raise the seedlings for our first planting and our first harvest.

Circle of Nations Wahpeton Indian School

Green School local foods initiatives promote gardening for student community and environmental health. Kids get nutrition life skills physical activity to reduce high rate of diabetes 2 obesity and related problems among Native people. Gardening is culturally relevant. It counteracts reservation diet and other poverty behavior social problems. Garden content is taught across the curriculum to promote fruits vegetables and the global contributions and nutrition value of Native agriculture.

Circle Benton Elementary School

The goal of our outdoor classroom is to enhance and reinforce our core curriculum nutritional studies art and music. Additionally we aim to improve nutritional attitudes through growing and eating fruits and vegetables provide new experiences beyond the traditional classroom setting and build character skills in students like leadership and team work. This grant will also help us serve our community through programs like Planta a Row for the Hungry Boy Scouts Girl Scouts 4-H etc.

Christopher Columbus School

This grant will enable us to purchase a greenhouse cold frames and related supplies. Our goal is to extend the opportunity to garden and involve more students during the school months. We will continue to donate our harvest to students families and staff at the school. We are also interested in donating food to the Medford Community Food Pantry through our existing and successful non-perishable food drive.

Christ Church United Methodist Child Development Center

Our goal is to teach the children we are blessed with a fertile earth that in return feeds & nourishes our bodies & that the best foods come from fresh fruits & vegetables. We also want to teach our children to reach out to the community by giving back a portion of the produce we grow. We will be partnering with "The Blessings Food Pantry" giving food to the neey. Often times the less fortunate cannot afford fresh produce. We will be the 3rd group to partner with the Food Pantry for fresh food.

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