Garden Classrooms

Alabama School of Fine Arts

We would like to rebuild 6 4x10 raised beds in our school yard when theater construction is completed for our AgriScience students to utilize in their curriculum. We currently utilize the Jones Valley Urban Farm but with these beds we will have the fresh produce grown by our students once again for our school cafeteria. This produce teaches students where our food comes from and to eat healthy foods some do not know or have access to part of our Health & Wellness curriculum as well.

ACCESS Group, Inc.

Our garden goal with this particular project is a launch point for food and nutrition education for individuals with special needs for whom poor health choices have a greater impact than their typically developing peers. Project results may be incorporated into a nutrition/healthy lifestyles workshop that can be shared with parents and professionals who care for individuals with special needs.

Access Charter School

The goals of our garden workshop are as follows: to know specific tools and how to use them know how to use garden materials and other supplies appropriately and be able to maintain and take care of various fruits/vegetables/plants/flowers (i.e. amount of sunlight water soil and seasons).

The Schoolyard Garden at the Academy for Global Citizenship

Environmental sustainability roots AGC’s education in the natural world. We believe that learning in harmony with nature provides opportunities to understand the relevance of our education. Learning from natural processes is a powerful vehicle for teaching our students about the connection between their everyday choices and the health of the community, the environment, and themselves.
 

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.)

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