Garden Classrooms

Belmont Hills Elementary School

Our goal is to create a small vegetable garden and fruit tree orchard (blue berries blackberries raspberries figs and mulberries) for our students to maintain and provide our student population with healthy snacks and side items in the lunchroom. This project will be a great hands on learning experience and it correlates with our science standards.

Belmont Charter School

Our goal is to take the small projects that only allows a limited exposure to our student to the larger school body. We want to fully incorperate gardening into our curriculum. We would like to increase our students access to healthy food and show them the process of moving foods from farm to table. We would use the gardens to provide opportunities for our students to show responsibility and care for growing living things as well as how they themselves can impact a community through gardening

Bellewood School

A primary goal of the garden is to provide meaningful healthy engagement with community residents, something youth rarely experience in residential programs. Gardening is a means to helping volunteers and youth form mentoring relationships. In 2012 we plan to expand the program to include monthly community cooking classes led by volunteers to broaden community engagement. A new garden pavilion will be used as an educational and community gathering space beginning in the spring of 2012.

Bellevue Middle School

BELL Garden exists to cultivate host and promote shared values and health outcomes through experiential learning in order to create lasting connections and positive community impact. The Whole Kids grant supports enhanced classroom curricula for history science home economic art and music; expanded community awareness thru volunteering leading to sustainability. A new 50k s.f. Bellevue Public Library scheduled for 2013 on school property adjacent to the BELL Garden furthers community pride.

Belle Fourche School District

Our garden goal is to increase access to fresh healthy local food in our community. To this end plots are available to community members gardening is integrated into after school and summer enrichment programs and plots are cultivated to supply the local food pantry. This grant will improve operations enriching the experiences of participants increase production through improved soil productivity and establish perennials that will enrich the garden for years to come.

Beethoven Elementary School

We serve 32 schools in L. A. with a 3 person staff & $250 000 budget. This grant will allow us to provide a garden specialist to support our garden programs. Each garden school has a parent coordinator and several volunteers who oversee plantings lessons & garden maintenance. A garden specialist will provide on-going consulting to all school coordinators training to new parent volunteers & help trouble shoot any maintenance issues allowing parents to focus their impact on program delivery.

Beeman Memorial Elementary School

All K-5 students have two complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days. 

Beattie Elementary School

Our goal is to plant a sustainable garden to promote nutrition and wellness for all students at Beattie. Our plan will provide an integrated hands-on learning experience for every student. We will grow a garden in an existing outdoor classroom that utilizes three harvest periods intoduces variables in an empirical scientific growing study and uses propagation of seeds from the first year's crop for subsequent crops. This project will include the community through mentorship opportunities.

Beachside Montessori Village

I have served as a coordinator for a vegetable garden program. My capacity in the planned garden will be similar in that a committee of parents will be working with the teachers on the K/1 and 2/3 teams. The Natural World and gardening is an essential aspect of the Montessori philosophy. So engaging students in all aspects o the garden will be interwoven into the core curriculum.we plan to donate the vegetables from the garden to the local food bank.

Bayside Elementary School

GrowingGreat will use the grant to complete garden construction and purchase supplies needed to deliver a successful school garden program. Construction of a three-bin compost system will enable students to study decomposition practice waste management and use compost to benefit garden soil. Grant funds will be used to purchase materials to rehabilitate broken and tired garden plots. Finally grant funds will be used to purchase seeds and garden supplies to operate the program.

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