Garden Classrooms

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

Bonny Eagle Middle School

The goal of the school gardens is to teach students where their food comes from and how to grow it sustainably. The gardens serve as outdoor learning labs where students can learn through hands-on experiences that draw on a variety of subject matter. The food grown is used for taste testings in the school lunch program and in health classes thus improving the nutritional quality of the food as well as making healthy eating appealing. Produce is also donated to local food pantries.

Blue Ridge Elementary School

Our school gardens will be used as outdoor classroom that feature lessons on agriculture nutrition environment & plant & animal ecosystems.The lessons will be closely aligned with GA professional education standards.We will use gardens to help close the disconnect between children of this generation & the natural world in which they live.It is our hope that we can encourage students' awareness of the importance of the environment by encouraging the growing of food & building native habitats.

Blue Heron Elementary School

The garden will: provide students the opportunity to grow and eat fresh produce expose students to hands-on environmental education enhance the curriculum by connecting it to the natural world offer parents and community residents the opportunity to engage the school community and develop a program that will sustain itself. We hope the garden will attract community members to assist in maintenance and participate in farmers markets increasing the school's community involvement.

Blue Bell Elementary School

The garden at Blue Bell Elementary one garden within the Wissahickon Garden Program. The program seeks to create a holistic tangible paradigm shift in our learning community towards sustainable "green" living healthy eating and mindful consumption of our food. This vision permeates our entire community from our administration teachers students staff and our community. Through our unified action in this program we seek to educate model and live the concept of "greener learning".

Birmingham Covington School

Our school has decided to create a Global Garden focusing on plants from around the world..Our goals are to: 1. Create an outdoor classroom to explore interdisciplinary themes and to learn about and investigate the world around us. 2. To promote service learning projects that can impact the entire community and to promote environmental awareness..Based on some projects classrooms have planned the community will become aware of several local environmental issues and receive food donations.

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