Garden Classrooms

Cannon Ball Elementary School

This grant will allow our students to learn how to grow fruits and vegetables with a Woolly School Garden from planting the seed to harvesting the fruits of their labor. It will give us fresh healthy food to use in the school kitchen and for the kids to take home. Importantly this grant would allow us to beautify the school landscape for our community. Thevertical garden will teach that anyone can grow their own food at home no matter where they live and how much space they have.

Campbell Hall (Episcopal)

The goal of our garden project is to teach children to appreciate all living things and to understand how to be good stewards of the Earth. In addition we want to give students specific experience in growing plants harvesting them tasting and cooking them and to understand the nutritional value of the things they have grown. Finally we want to teach them about sustainability and the need to conserve and protect our natural resources as responsible human beings.

Campau Park Elementary School

Vulnerable communities in Grand Rapids like the neighborhoods that surround Campau Elementary School are food deserts: virtually no options exist for purchasing produce from Michigan which is the second largest agricultural producer. Also knowledge about the importance of consuming fruits and vegetables is often lacking as evidenced by high rates of diabetes in this low income urban community. Our proposed garden project at Campau allows us address these disparities.

Cameron Park Elementary School

We will bring our entire curriculum to life by incorporating plant-based learning. We will foster respect for the natural world through the investigative nurturing act of gardening and will blend hands-on learning with curriculum standards. It will be a model for sustainable gardening will be used and enjoyed by students and maintained by staff and community volunteers. It will also be an alternative learning environment to reach and inspire students from our impoverished Fairview community.

Cajon Valley Middle School

With 100% of our school population eligible for free or reduced lunch our students and their families are in need of economical healthy food sources. The primary goal of the Cajon Valley Kids Garden project is to teach youth gardening techniques they can use at home and in their adult life. The Kids Garden will provide educational opportunities for students in math physical science physical education and consumer science with an effort to maximize their garden knowledge and experience.

Cache High School

The goal of the Cache High School Garden is to give students healthy options for lunches the opportunity to take produce home with them the opportunity to learn about the produce that they are growing and also to provide them with skills of how to incorporate their products into tasty home-prepared meals.

C. P. Smith Elementary School

Our garden goals include but are not limited to: growing our own fruits and vegetables learning new skills while working as a team improving Literacy Math and Science skills making healthy food choices while reaching out to our school community sharing knowledge as well as food and having fun. Also we have established contact with UVM for expert advice on growing culturally diverse food in our ever increasing diverse community to evoke conversations about origin of such food & taste them

Burton Elementary and Middle School

With our garden grants we hope to expand current community gardens to implement garden and nutritiion education in local elementary schools as well as build new school gardens for schools that do not benefit from community gardens and show interest in building their own garden. Through these gardens we hope to increase childhood education about engagement with and access to fruits and vegetables ultimately promoting healthier living for the community.

Burnley-Moran Elementary School

Our goal is for every Charlottesville City School student to experience garden-related programming as a part of his/her core classes tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of each school. We promote nutritional awareness help to improve student health and foster appreciation for locally grown food. This grant will enable CSG to develop schoolyard gardens in three of our city's elementary schools while maintaining the pilot garden at Buford Middle School.

Buford Middle School

Our goal is for every Charlottesville City School student to experience garden-related programming as a part of his/her core classes tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of each school. We promote nutritional awareness help to improve student health and foster appreciation for locally grown food. This grant will enable CSG to realize the goal of developing schoolyard gardens in three city elementary schools & also continue to support the existing garden at Buford Middle School.

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