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The goal of the garden at the Open Classroom is to involve children in an experience of growing and harvesting food, to teach and enrich the students, provide interest to the surrounding community and support the school's mission of whole child enrichment.

We see this garden as having the potential to transform our school culture and add a myriad of learning experiences to our courses. A goal for all of the teachers involved is to use the garden to teach about nutrition and healthy eating. Our students often haven

Our primary goal is to educate the children and inspire them to eat healthier. We want them to learn where their food comes from and to take part in the process of growing their own food.

This grant will help continue to fund our on-going garden expenses. Our garden program is in it's 7th year and we currently serve 350+ children ages 3 to 7 with one hour of contact time per child, per week for 40 weeks per year.
The Seed to Table program goals are to:

Our goals are:
- To provide a hands-on classroom for our horticulture career pathway, grow edibles for students to eat, and engage them in physical activity.

Our goal is to achieve a sustainable growing space which will serve as both a demonstration of gardening principles as well as a living laboratory to carryout investigations.

The goal of the garden is to involve students, school staff, families and community members in growing, maintaining and harvesting vegetables and fruits. The garden will educate these groups about gardening techniques, which they can duplicate at home or in community gardens.

While establishing our garden this year as a staff, we set the expectations to work collaboratively to grow vegetables organically, sharing the bounty with staff, students, parents, and the community.

The goals of our school garden are to give our scholars a sense of where food comes from and how much effort it takes to produce quality food, to inspire a passion for gardening, and create greater sustainability in the urban context.