Garden Classrooms

AC Reynolds High School

We have an ambitious goal of generating a CSA (community supported agriculture) for families in need at the school. Students will plant tend and harvest the garden throughout the year and its cycles generating a bi-weekly distribution of produce for needy families. This grant will make AC Reynolds a model of community production of organic food on high school campuses. Other schools will want to mirror what AC Reynolds is doing and increase the food security and health of their own students

Abingdon Elementary School

This grant will allow 5 schools to renovate or establish new garden programs with technical support from ASD. The 5 partnering schools will work together to build and maintain garden features especially during the critical summer months. Student mentoring will be highlighted at each school providing leadership while engaging student responsibility. The grant will allow 5 different schools to grow food for their students and community while enhancing school curriculum.

A.M. Waddington Elementary School

We develop leadership skills and help the community by growing food for food banks, learning how to conserve energy, and learning about plants and animals, especially insects!  We have a scout-like program called Eco-Warriors to facilitate this. Our credo is:

BE KIND TO PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS

REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE CORRECTLY

CLEAN MY ENVIRONMENT AND NEVER LITTER

SAVE ENERGY WHEREVER I AM

 

 

A. D. Henderson University School

Our 4th grade garden has helped build an awareness of sustainability in our students though numerous curricular hands-on activities. In addition the students have developed a sense of empathy not only for the environment for also for each other. The goals of our garden is to promote leasdership through being kind courteous and helping others. Students are excited to check the growth of their vegetables and enjoy tending and caring for it. The grant will make it possible to continue our garde

A Place Called Home

The goal of this program is to provide knowledge experience and inspiration to grow fresh organic produce for the benefit of our member's health. In addition the program teaches life lessons about nature patience care and the gratification that comes with helping and watching something grow. Along the way students learn about chemistry and math and the seasons and life cycles. This grant will assist in the purchase of child-size gardening tools.

96th Street Elementary School

Our goals are to: 1. Educate elementary students of the importance of fruits and vegetables.2. Energize and excite them about produce.3. Introduce fresh produce into the diets of students and their families.4. Give schools access to a variety of resources and support to help achieve Goals 1-3.This grant allows us to maintain the upkeep of the gardens (youth volunteer incentives recruitment etc.) and instruct the Teaching Gardens curriculum (teacher stipends curricular costs etc.)

4-H Garden at Washtenaw County Youth Center

We plan to educate our students about gardening nutrition and food preparation via hands-on activities..This at-risk youth population can gain confidence along with knowledge about nutritional importance quality and cost savings of home gardening. We hope they share their skills with their communities and continue life long gardening..We also plan to expand into a second courtyard to expand student opportunities for teamwok and more food choices. .Expansion is dependant on grant funding.

Augustus H. Burley School

To safeguard the environment and strengthen engagement and partnership with neighbors and our community. The combined elements of the project from green space to landscaping will have a cooling effect on the property eliminating the radiating heat that bounces off solid black-top. New trees and shrubs which are critical to cleaning the air and reducing pollution will be planted. A community garden will provide space for experiencing the miracle of the growing cycle in an urban space for all.

Audubon Elementary School

The Audubon goals for a Whole Foods community garden are for students to: engage in a tangible application of their hard-earned academic skills develop an understanding of the efforts and variables involved in growing and transporting the food they eat daily deepen their appreciation of nutrition and thoroughly understand their power and responsibility in promoting environmental health in the Audubon and global communities.

Atwater Avenue Elementary

Students who attend public school in LA are growing up with little knowledge as to where their food comes from or how much work it takes to produce it. This lack of connection with their food source makes it very difficult for them to care about the quality of the food they eat and the impact their food choice has on our planet and their health. Our goal is to use the garden and outdoor kitchen as an outdoor classroom to re-connect students with their environment and community.

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