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Wauconda, IL
United States
Having the right person with a passion, plan and experience, the land to make it happen, and a community of support make the perfect mix for a successful garden curriculum. Now students in all of our grades can experience firsthand how food is grown, harvested, and prepared into meals.
Aptos, CA
United StatesThe Orchard School garden has been in existence for 15 years as an integral part of the school’s mission and identity. The Whole Kids Foundation grant would:
1. Expand our garden by adding four new raised planting beds to increase production of vegetables, herbs and flowers
Orlando, FL
United StatesOrlando Day School and Orlando Day Nursery Association, Inc. (ODN) are located in Parramore, a local food desert with three homeless shelters and a number of weekly rental hotels used by homeless families. Most of our school age children are homeless.
Newark, NJ
United StatesNewark Leadership Academy’s mission is to re-engage over-age and under-credited youth (ages 16-20) through programming that combines workforce training, academics, socio-emotional support, and leadership development to provide students with the necessary skills to succeed.
Akron, OH
United StatesThe Next Frontier Academy is planning to open up a hydroponics growing room in our school. We are an agricultural non-profit charter school that strives to provide agricultural work opportunities for our students.
Little Rock, AR
United StatesThe goal of our garden program is to provide healthy food for our lunch program, and connect our students and school community to their food. In 2011, 30% of Arkansas children were considered overweight or obese, and our state had the third highest obesity rate in the nation.
Littleton, CO
United StatesOur primary goal is to create a garden that provides healthy fruit and veggies for our kids while teaching them the values of hard work, treating the earth with respect and the responsibility it requires to maintain a garden.
Lynn, MA
United StatesOur goal is to create personal, societal, and community-based change through the creation of a school agriculture program at KALC. KALC serves a population of students who are traditionally underserved in a public school setting, as well as following them further on in life through college.
Clarkston, GA
United StatesOf the nearly 3,000 refugees who arrive in Atlanta each year, 80% are resettled in Clarkston, GA. Clarkston High School (CHS) students come from more than 54 countries and speak 47 languages.
Vineland, NJ
United StatesThe goal of our school garden in to involve the school staff, students, their families and our community by providing an opportunity for all to participate in the care of this garden over school brakes and the summer months.
Omaha, NE
United StatesThe 2014-15 theme for Westside Community Schools is to increase student engagement in their school. A school-garden is an excellent way to engage students. The first goal is to improve academic achievement through positive student engagement via the natural world.
Las Vegas, NV
United StatesSustainability is one of the important themes at the heart of the Advanced Placement Environmental Science curriculum.
Red Deer, AB
Canada
The goal of our Outdoor Classroom is to educate and inform our students and community about establishing a healthy urban environment to grow and produce fresh ,locally grown vegetables and plants. Students, and parents will be exposed to the methods needed to grow a healthy garden.
Alta, WY
United StatesThe Alta Elementary Whole School Garden Project will build and sustain a community garden that will allow students to better understand and participate in their food production.
Florence, SC
United StatesOur basic goal is to teach standards in an outdoor classroom with garden materials - with the ultimate goal of nurturing each child's appreciation of the natural world by involving them in the processes of gardening.
Joes, CO
United StatesLiberty School is the only K-12 school in the town of Joes, serving both towns of Joes and Kirk in the high plains of Colorado.
Houston, TX
United StatesGrace Lower School is committed to providing our students with an enriching, hands-on learning environment. A school garden will give our students opportunities for first-hand experiences, observation and experimentation.
Plant City, FL
United StatesOur school's goal is to teach our children about our rich agricultural heritage within our city. Plant City, being the Winter Strawberry Capital of the US, has a great respect for farming and cultivating land.
Newport News, VA
United StatesThe goals of our school garden are to provide our students with the experience of planning, creating, planting, maintaining and harvesting their own vegetables as well provide them a “real life” activity to learn and practice science, health and mathematics skills and concepts.
Booneville, KY
United StatesLocated in Appalachian Kentucky, Owsley County School District (OCSD) has three centrally located schools ( a Headstart serving 3-4 year olds, an elementary school serving grades Pre-K–6 and a middle/high school serving grades 7–12), with a total enrollment of 850 students.
