Garden Classrooms

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.

Cholla Complex

The main goal for our school garden is to provide social-emotional growth for our students. Students will learn how to work as a team to maintain the garden they will learn to take pride in growing a garden and they will learn delayed gratification all of which are difficult concepts for preschoolers to grasp. The garden will challenge the students to try different healthy foods. Our goal is to create a garden that can be harvested for the school community and for a local food bank.

Chippewa Middle School

Our school has seen a dramatic shift over the past few years. We have become a Title one school with the number of free and reduced lunch students totaling 39.1 % of our total. Many of these kids to do not get healthy meals outside of school. Other do not get meals at all outside of school. The goal of the grant is two fold. One to allow students to take home and cook and eat the food we grow. Two to teach them how they can make smaller gardens and home and have food to eat.

Children's Greenhouse Childcare Center

Our garden will teach children where food comes from healthy eating habits good nutrition and respect for their environment. Half of our student population lives in single mother households with lower income levels and they may not always choose healthy food due to economics; we would like our garden to influence these parents as well. The garden will also be a service learning area for NCC students to help maintain the garden and teach our children about the plants and the science involved

Chewning Middle School

We are hoping to make our garden a 365 day garden as well as a source of beauty and pride for the school. This will include tilling additional land proper mulching cold framing for winter/early planting addition of perennial fruit shrubs and beautification of grounds. Grant will make possible the purchase of materials for all of the above including seeds shrubs and plant sets for the garden

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