Garden Classrooms

Aspen Community Magnet School

The School wishes to add raised beds more fruit trees and to improve upon the outdoor classroom.

Asbell Elementary School

The Whole Kids garden grant will allow Asbell Elementary to expand a small existing garden area and give more children a positive gardening and healthy eating experience. The garden expansion will include building additional raised beds installing a rainwater cistern and planting berry bushes. Students will learn about sustainable growing methods and build an outdoor learning area that can be used for many years. Students plan to donate additional produce to a local homeless shelter.

Arturo A. Schomburg Satellite Academy High School

The goal is to improve the health and lifestyles of the members of Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy's community by: Teaching students and community members how to grow their own food and how to select the best fresh produce grown at other community gardens and local farms; Teaching students and community members how to prepare and preserve meals from fresh local ingredients; Training students to run workshops for other students and community members where they share what they have learned.

Salem-Keizer Education Foundation Learning Gardens

 Salem-Keizer Education Foundation (SKEF) Learning gardens serves ages Pre-K through High School in the Salem-Keizer School District. Currently, we work with eight schools that have schools gardens on site. We help teachers implement garden curriculum and lead after school garden clubs through the Enrichment Acadmy provided by SKEF. 

This is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

Central School Gardens

Our school garden is supported by elementary students as well as highschool agriculture students We plant the garden in our playground area for students to see and enjoy each day. We use the produce on our school's salad bar. It's added color and beauty to our playground and our school!

MFL MarMac School Gardens

We started our school garden many years ago, and use curriculum to help 1st and 2nd graders learn about plants and food. We use our garden produce to make Stone Soup, Ratatouille, and other delicious foods that are accompanied by stories. We have had help from highschool agriculture and conservation classes, and we hope to expand the participation to more highschoolers. We also want to feature more of our lunch on school lunch trays!

Clayton Ridge school gardens

We have a school garden created by our FCCLA and FFA teams. This year, we want to bring in elementary students to help plant and learn about the garden. We also want to contribute more produce to our school lunch program and our school snack carts.

Wright Charter School Garden

The Wright Charter School Garden serves 497 students, K-8, in the beautiful Laguna de Santa Rosa of Santa Rosa CA.  Ecoliteracy is the core value of our charter and the garden program is key to achieving our goal of educating our students to be responsible citizens of Planet Earth.   94% of our student body qualifies for free or reduced luch, and many are English language learners.  The garden program serves as not only as a strong connection to nature, but also provides nutrition education to some of the most needy children in our local community.

Horta Educativa

The Educational Garden Project aims to strengthen the educational work aimed at the formation of social values, cultural and food compatible with the preservation of the country's culture, the environment and the promotion of healthy eating habits. It is an educational tool for understanding the relationship between the environment and healthy eating, linking them to health, citizenship and quality of life.

Horta Escola Lucy Montoro

Our goals are to transform children through multi-discipline garden education, allowing students to be their own teachers by promoting food education.

Horta Escola Lucy Montoro aims to be a living space for education, exercise, and care for the environment and community spirit. We grow vegetables, and plant seedlings of native tree species for landscaping and agricultural activities.

 

 

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