Garden Classrooms

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.

Big Spring Lake Kindergarten School

Our main garden goal is for our children to learn how plants develop while understanding that it takes a lot of work to get the food we eat. We would like for our students to be able to see the foods that are served in the lunchroom and be able to relate to where it came from how it grew and know that fresh fruits and vegetables are not only healthy but also delicious. Our hope for the community is that our young students will encourage their families to eat more nutritious foods at home.

Beverly Vista Elementary School

The sense of ownership of the garden combined with activity based lessons on nutrition will motivate children from an early age to live healthy lifestyles and motivate their parents to provide healthy options for snacks . Parents will be encouraged to modify their eating habits to serve as positive role models. The project will show the value of healthful nutritional habits.

Bethany Baptist Church

Our garden goal is to grow and expand our current community garden. This grant will allow us to have a successful garden to pay for water seeds and transplants and to pay for training for young people to participate in the garden.

Bessemer Elementary School

If awarded this grant there are several areas where the money will be used. We will be able to maintain the raised beds we already have add more beds for the teachers who have newly joined our team and purchase seeds/plants fertilizer curriculum books a shed tools for children and adults and a mobile cooking cart that will allow teachers to extend lessons from the garden into cooking lessons. We will also work towards increasing our parent and community involvement.

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