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We will bring our entire curriculum to life by incorporating plant-based learning. We will foster respect for the natural world through the investigative nurturing act of gardening and will blend hands-on learning with curriculum standards.

The garden will: provide students the opportunity to grow and eat fresh produce expose students to hands-on environmental education enhance the curriculum by connecting it to the natural world offer parents and community residents the opportunity to engage the school community and develop a progr

The goal of the school gardens is to teach students where their food comes from and how to grow it sustainably. The gardens serve as outdoor learning labs where students can learn through hands-on experiences that draw on a variety of subject matter.

Our garden has served to help children learn about where food comes from how to plant tend to and care for edible plants and the life cycles involved tending to gardens and caring for chickens.

The grant would enable and assist in funding our Garden Program Educator to continue teaching in an economy where funding is scarce. Seed money has enabled an amazing garden and outdoor classroom to be set up and accessible to the students.

To create a sensory garden within an urban setting for students with severe disabilities. To provide them with an opportunity to taste smell touch and see things that most have mot experienced and are a result of their labor.

The primary goal of the partnership between the Master Gardeners and the 4th grade teachers is to establish a hands-on gardening experience for 4th grade students which would help the children: Develop and expand an appreciation for life and living processes Experience the wonder beauty and jo

A WKF grant would leverage the investment of time resources and ingenuity that were expended by the Jepson community in the design and installation of our raised bed garden. We already have the infrastructure in place and have shown great initiative in installing a garden.

Create raised beds part of an outdoor classroom featuring a sensory garden and a cool weather vegetable garden. Sensory garden: lamb's ear lemon balm mint rosemary oregano dill fennel lavender and sage. Vegetable garden: lettuces spinach potatoes onions.