Garden Classrooms

ESYNOLA, Arthur Ashe Charter School

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.

Arlington Heights Elementary School

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.

Archbishop Romero Catholic Seconday School

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

Arch Creek Elementary

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.

Aptakisic Junior High School

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 Middle School

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.

Annie Webb Blanton Elementary School

This grant would enable the Blanton Garden to serve as an excellent tool for both educating students and science, nutrition, and other subjects as well exposing children to vegetables and gardening. Many of our students live in multi-family dwellings and have minimal access to garden space.

Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders

ARS has a goal to use a greenhouse as an experiential hands-on tool for students to learn environmental stewardship good nutrition with an emphasis on fresh foods and other science-based lessons. As a campus we have a long-term goal of having a selection of garden-fresh organic vegetables in the school cafeteria. This goal ties in with our mission statement of leading a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.

Andrew Jackson Elementary School

The Woolly School Garden is a vertical edible garden that can be hung anywhere. We would hang it on an east-facing chain link fence. Using the curriculum lessons provided by the Woolly School Garden Program our goal is to have garden serve as a hands-on outdoor classroom where students can grow fruits and vegetables. Our students will learn about gardening science math and nutrition all at the same time. The lessons provided by Growing Great link to National and California Content Standards.

Andrew H. Wilson Charter School

Our goal with the garden is to engage student's in interdisciplinary learning by teaching life cycles in conjunction with the state of Louisiana's Grade Level Expectations. Other goals include growing seasonal fruits and vegetables so that children can learn where their food comes from and what products are locally grown. The garden will also serve as a nurturing environment to members of our school and community dealing with speech physical and mental ailments.

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