Garden Classrooms

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.

Atlanta Speech School

The overarching goal of all campus gardens is to increase exposure to language as it relates to nature food recycling and sustainability. Children gain vocabulary and context as they plan plant maintain harvest and est fresh produce. Specifically this grant will make possible the creation of two beds that are larger in scale than the beds currently on campus. This larger space will significantly expand planting possibilities and compost space allowing more children to work at one time.

Atlanta International School

Our garden goal is to enhance our school garden so that each child can plant and harvest a crop of vegetables prior to leaving school for the summer. We also want to increase access to nutritious sustainable and healthy foods on campus and to promote zero waste goals. Our garden will create new learning opportunities for students that will be involved in garden projects. We would like this garden to increase awareness about health and sustainability by striving to enhance IB learning.

Atalaya Elementary School

We plan to purchase four raised beds organic soi and seeds from local companies which are willing to work with our community. We have an existing fenced garden area which has not been in working conditions for many years. Our goal is to create a working garden space with a variety of easy to grow New Mexico Crops such as squash peppers tomatoes etc. We would like to involve EarthCare Farm to School Farmers Market Food Corps and community partnership for a full commuinity project.

Aspen Community School

Our goal is for ACS students to learn about the importance of growing and eating local foods and to understand agricultural seasons. The garden program will also enhance academic studies: students will integrate their experience into the classroom by writing and drawing about the garden; students will use math to design the garden plot and planting diagrams; students will apply natual science as they dig into the earth and learn about plant varieties and seasons.

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