Garden Classrooms

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.

The goal for our garden is to grow into a large school/community garden that will serve as an outdoor classroom that will enhance our students learning in the fields of math science and social studies.Our hope is that the students to gain a connectedness to nature and feel good about growing food and helping out the community with donating our harvest to the needy in our community.

Our garden goal is twofold. First our goal is to provide our students and their families with the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy living choices in their daily activities and meals. Second our goal is to utilize the garden to bring together the community surrounding the school connecting students to teachers community members and most important families. The grant would make possible the opportunity to provide our students with authentic learning opportunities.

14. The goal of the Brown Elementary Garden is to provide each student the opportunity to plant tend to harvest and eat produce that they have grown in order to increase awareness about healthy living options. This grant would allow us to extend our current garden to ensure that each student does have this opportunity as opposed to only the 2nd graders. Additionally this grant would provide us with the upfront capital to seek other funding sources.