Garden Classrooms

Bessemer City Central Elementary School

This grant money will help to strengthen the current gardening program a great deal. It will enhance the experience for the students involved and greatly expand educational opportunities related to the garden both for the students enrolled in the gardening program and for the school at large. The projects that will be undertaken with the grant money will also reach volunteers and parents strengthening the school community and the sustainability of the school garden program.

Beryl Heights Elementary School

Beryl Heights has a garden consisting of seven small garden beds. Unfortunately years ago the garden was placed behind a temporary classroom which shades the entire garden throughout the whole school year. This makes it extremely difficult for any vegetables to grow! Although there has been great interest in keeping our garden this interest is waning due to the frustrations of doing everything correctly but to no avail due to the lack of sunshine on the existing garden beds!

Benvenue Elementary School

Create raised beds part of an outdoor classroom featuring a sensory garden and a cool weather vegetable garden. Sensory garden: lamb's ear lemon balm mint rosemary oregano dill fennel lavender and sage. Vegetable garden: lettuces spinach potatoes onions. The science curriculum can be connected to soil/plants at almost every grade level from kindergarten through fifth. Sensory experience with plants will enhance observational skills.

Benjamin Stoddert Elementary School

The grant will provide salary support for a school garden coordinator at Stoddert Elementary. This position is critical to ensure that the newly installed garden is meeting its potential as an educational tool for the students and as a valuable gateway for healthy food habits. The PTA is providing some funding for the position but we hope to provide further support with this grant. DC Greens is also requesting a "Special Projects" grant for District-wide professional development.

Benjamin Jepson Magnet School

A WKF grant would leverage the investment of time resources and ingenuity that were expended by the Jepson community in the design and installation of our raised bed garden. We already have the infrastructure in place and have shown great initiative in installing a garden. This grant will be used to support a long-term plan developed primarily by the students for sustaining the garden by strategically using the money to purchase seeds soil and plants to maintain the garden over 3-years.

Benjamin Franklin Magnet School

The Labor of Love Sustainability Curriculum Expansion (LLSCE) will introduce new hands-on education components to the SPROUTS Garden at BFEM such as:.1. Meet demand for SPROUTS by increasing student access hours x 2 per student every week.2. Directly address sustainability issues by introducing summer maintenance and stewardship of SPROUTS from seed to plate.3. Provide for a Farmer's Market deepening the involvement of our surrounding community in SPROUTS and the school.

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

The primary goal of the partnership between the Master Gardeners and the 4th grade teachers is to establish a hands-on gardening experience for 4th grade students which would help the children: Develop and expand an appreciation for life and living processes Experience the wonder beauty and joy of caring for plants and discovering nature

Benjamin E. Mays High School

Ultimately we would like to see students involved in learning through the completion of their high school years. We would like to provide them with hands-on opportunities to develop gardening landscaping and groundskeeping knowledge paired with job readiness skills and work ethics in order that they may become employed in the field of horticulture. The grant will make possible the creation of garden beds where students parents and volunteers will learn & practice growing healthy foods!!

Benito Juarez Community Academy

The Benito Juarez Community Academy fully realizes that using the environment as an integrated context to learning creates the framework for interdisciplinary collaborative student centered experiential and engaged learning. The goal of the community garden is for it to function as an experiential learning environment for our teachers and students during the school year and as a food production garden for the community.

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