Garden Classrooms

Chee Dodge Elementary School

we would like to expand our burgeoning garden program. the grant will help bring more food into the school cafeteria and provide further opportunities for children at the school to work the land and gain a sense of ownership over the food they help produce and eat.

Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts

This grant will make it possible for our students to consume fresh vegetables and fruits. It provides Earth Club members with the opportunity to plan plant and harvest a garden. It beautifies our campus and provides green spaces for migrating butterflies and birds. This grant will also provide an outdoor classroom that our science language arts visual arts and communications classes can use. We have many invasive plants on our campus and these gardens will replace them.

Charles W. Eliot Middle School

Students with little or no experience of growing food will learn to prepare soil plant tend harvest and prepare or sell organic fruits and vegetables. Our garden will be a source of fresh nutritious produce for our community the basis for standards-linked hands-on lessons in science health and nutrition and the cultural and economic aspects of growing food. It will beautify our urban campus and provide a point of connection with the surrounding community.

Chapman Elementary School

The goal of the Chapman School Garden is to teach students the importance of healthy food and sustainability through hands-on experiences in the garden. We seek to integrate garden lessons into classroom curriculum allowing a first hand view into urban gardening organics the environment wellness seasonal cycles and recipes to enjoy. This grant will supply needed funds so that we do not need to rely entirely on community donations especially in these difficult economic times.

Chaparral Elementary School

To go from styrofoam cups to container beds! Instead of seedlings that never turn into beans and die at home the kids shall finally experience the full lifecycle. Plan: six 4'x8'x1.5' raised wood beds with drip irrigation. Outcomes: Students will grow & eat 2 annual crops corresponding with State Curriculum partner GrowingGreat-trained parents will teach 5 Nutrition lessons monthly food tastings Harvest Festival beautify barren concrete courtyard which is the central hub of campus.

Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School

This garden grant will provide nutrition education for kids and their parents and increase access to and consumption of local fruits and vegetables by the whole school community. Urban Grand Rapids has a large population of people with diabetes and heart disease and the children in the neighborhoods surrounding Cesar Chavez Elementary deserve the chance to learn how to grow healthy food. Gardening education will also allow school kids to have hands-on learning opportunities.

Center-Pepin Elementary School

The garden will serve as a place of connection providing a laboratory where children can explore and apply their classroom studies. Experiences in the garden will also connect children to the delights of the journey from seed to edible vegetable or fruit and to the enjoyment of eating fresh food. To be located between the two elementary school buildings the garden will provide a physical place of connection converting a large unused 2 100-square foot asphalt area into a dynamic learning space

Center School, Inc.

Indigenous Garden Goals are to: empower young people to produce their own food recapture a traditional diet for a healthier lifestyle and re-establish the connection to land. People heal when they re-establish a connection to the earth and we see young people making healthier decisions. Student gardeners become more patient and thoughtful decision-makers. The garden links directly to academic progress as students earn credits for science math and language arts. The garden helps to create

Center for Children

The garden goal is to implement a sustainable rain catchment system at each of our garden sites. This will improve our ability to ensure that our garden is adequately watered and this will also improve our ability to engage community stakeholders at the garden. We would also like to improve the heat retention and extend our gardening season in our Pocket Park located on our campus. This will also allow us to create a food demonstration and work space.

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