Garden Classrooms

Bruce Randolph School

This grant will allow us to purchase and install a drip irrigation system to the vermiculture community plots which will increase the yield and reduce the water uses. It will also pay stipends to two youth Farmers-in-Training for three months. The Farmers-in-Training are responsible for managing the garden and running our workshops for school groups.

Brown Elementary School

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.

Broadmor Elementary School

The goals are: to create and sustain a dynamic outdoor setting for classroom instruction in science math environmental studies nutrition and art; to provide a meeting place for the Broadmor community to share ideas and work together in the design planting and harvesting of plants/food; and to advocate for an understanding of natural food systems healthy food choices and environmental stewardship among students faculty staff and Broadmor families.

Briscoe Elementary, MacGregor Elementary, KIPP Shine Preparatory

RFS puts children in touch with their food from seed to plate. The Recipe Gardens provide the cornerstone of the interdisciplinary nutritional learning activities featured in Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education. RFS gardening instructors deliver monthly classes to the entire student body that introduce students to the complete food cycle and work with teachers to help weave food gardening into curriculum. With this grant RFS will be able to continue providing programs at the four campuses.

Bright Horizons School

To create a sensory garden within an urban setting for students with severe disabilities. To provide them with an opportunity to taste smell touch and see things that most have mot experienced and are a result of their labor. To provide a positive stress-free environment where students can work to increase their strength endurance and range of motion. To provide an opportunity for them to create something they can share with others in the community.

Bright Futures Academy Charter School

Our garden is presently growing an extensive array of vegetables and fruit and has been sustainable since 2010.  We are teaching our students how to grow healthy food and how to cook healthy food so that they can lead a healthy lifestyle with an  emphasis on disease prevention,resulting from our fast food culture.  Lessons on awareness to the importance of biodiversity in our food supply and the sustainability of our soil and water supplies is another way we hope to educate our kids.

Brandon School

The grant would enable and assist in funding our Garden Program Educator to continue teaching in an economy where funding is scarce. Seed money has enabled an amazing garden and outdoor classroom to be set up and accessible to the students. The garden goal is to keep our existing garden alive and thriving for the students and school community.

Boston Teachers Union Pilot School

The Learning Garden will support the BTU's innovative educational approach by providing experiential opportunities for scholars to connect life cycle science with healthy sustainable living. Funds will support a three tier growing system to maximize learning time for students in a New England climate. Funds are also requested for native plant landscaping to improve the overall appearance of the school.

Borton Magnet School

Our garden has served to help children learn about where food comes from how to plant tend to and care for edible plants and the life cycles involved tending to gardens and caring for chickens. The garden grant would make it possible for us to expand the gardens to serve the needs of the community at large by installing a greenhouse and an additional water cistern to sustain fruit trees and to begin to produce enough harvest to offer it to members of the neighborhood and community.

Boone Park Elementary School

Goal is to work with with at risk youth in elementary and high school to create a sustainable farm that will serves as an engine for a community based food system in area that has been designated as a food desert. Support from your foundation would go towards the purchase of hoop houses that will allow participants to grow produce year around for sale and learning and providing business

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