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.
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.
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.
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.
