Our primary goal is educational. We want our children to learn about nutrition and plant life cycles. We also want them to learn about organic gardening. They will learn that gardening is a great way to be self-reliant and a cost-effective way to eat healthfully. Our students will learn responsibility by caring for the garden. We will share the food we grow with our students and their families. Families in the community will also get to share their expertise by helping care for the garden.
Our goal is to continue to build and maintain a healthy and bountiful garden that will provide educational opportunities for students in years to come and help beautify our corner yard which is visible from all sides by the public. To do so we must upgrade the current watering system to a more permanent higher-quality reliable sprinkler system. A grant from Whole Foods/Whole Kids Foundation/FoodCorps will provide partial funding for the labor and materials required for this watering system.
Our goals are to create a space for students to engage in hands on learning to create a program led by and sustained by students and to create a program that engages our students in the larger community. The grant will help our school become more environmentally responsible and create an innovative learning space that will help students who have trouble learning in a traditional school environment thrive. It will also help our student leaders learn leadership skills.
At Arthur Ashe Charter School students eat their lunch while gazing out a picture frame of gorgeous, native and exotic shade plants, showcasing the school's kitchen herb and flower garden.
The main goal is to create a holistic engaging educational atmosphere allowing students to become excited about nature and organic lifestyle. We also hope for the community garden to promote the benefits of organic and sustainable agriculture to youth. To educate children on the many possibilities you can create by gardening your own food while also engaging the students in feeding the community.
Our gardening goal is to increase access to fresh healthy food food growing spaces and food education in our community. Two challenges that our partner schools face with independent gardens are teacher time and summer maintenance. By including community partners and volunteers our goal is to share the work and the reward while learning about food together. By working collectively in public spaces we will learn from our diversity get to know one another better and enjoy delicious healthy food
Our garden goal this is to double the number of participants by creating a garden club "ACE's." By doubling the number of students from 36 to 72 we will need more funding for purchasing fresh vegetables and fruits to serve to the students in addition to what is being served in the cafeteria. I found that last year I enjoyed sharing my salads ranging from watercress avocado and let's not forget all the berries they enjoyed such as raspberry and black berry. These are non-cafeteria foods.
Our garden goal is to create a productive garden with student based planning and maintenance. The grant will help provide the resources necessary to create a garden and gardening program that will show students how food is grown and where nutritious food comes from. We hope to provide students with authentic learning opportunities that they can connect to healthy living and lifelong learning.
Apollo's garden would plant various plants such as vegatables herbs tomatoes cilantro peppers and other plants that are used in this area. Our goal is to be able to establish a self sustaining garden by developing a school farmers market. We would like to be able to develop a salsa area plant items to make various salsa's conduct taste testing and sell to the staff and teachers. Students will learn how to plant maintain and pick from the garden.
