Garden Classrooms

Buckfield Junior and Senior High School

The 21st century Grant funds are mostly depleted so the School needs funds to keep the Garden alive and sustainable. I would like to see some high tunnel hoop houses installed to extend the growing season. I would like to see an early summer harvest dinner. This year Buckfield is hosting Maine School Garden day in April and I would love to get some shirts printed up so the Community can show their support for the Garden in the larger world. Finally I would like to boost the seed they have.

Buckeye 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.

Brush Creek Montessori School

Children learn through experience. The experience is enhanced when it is combined with practical knowledge. The goal of this project is to connect the classroom lesson on the amazing transformation seeds make as they grow with tangible hands-on outdoor experience. The outdoor experience will be enriched and made real by cultivating and harvesting the result of this biological transformation.

Bruns Academy

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.

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.

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