School Garden Grants

Why Gardens?

School gardens are a vital educational tool. Every seed planted sprouts a new opportunity for kids to cultivate healthy eating habits. Teaching kids to garden helps them learn about complex topics like sustainability and conservation, food systems and community awareness. Not to mention an appreciation for food from seed to plate.

Announcements & Applications

Garden Grant Application Window Currently Closed

Our application review team is nearing completion — having thoroughly read and rated 3000 applications! We are in the process of extending grant offers. We have begun with Southern states and warmer climates. We have funds for approximately 1000 garden projects. Very soon there will be a map on our site that shows the location of schools who have received funding.

With regard to current submitted applications, there are three possibilities:

  • We will fund your grant now
  • We will hold your application "pending" as we continue to raise funds
  • We will decline your application and suggest you consider our next grant window

You WILL hear from us regarding your application.

We were truly honored to receive information on so many amazing projects. The overwhelming enthusiasm of schools everywhere has lead to our continued commitment to fund school gardens. We're working through all of the details and will post information here when we know the timing of our next grant window.

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Resources

Looking for more information or inspiration? Check out our resources for school gardens and environmental efforts.

Success Stories

Enright Park Community Garden

We broke ground on the Enright Park Community Garden in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh in July 2008. In partnership with the surrounding neighbors, the Kentucky Avenue School, and East Liberty Development, Inc., we worked together to transition an overgrown and abandoned corner lot into a thriving field of cucumbers, zucchini, raspberries, tomatoes and more.

Gourmet Garden Blog: Whole Foods Market U.K.

Five Whole Foods Market team members have volunteered to nurture 60 baby plants that have been selected based on their high nutrient density. Follow their gardening adventures and see if they successfully grow a summer garden.



The Meadow in Baltimore

Once an abandoned baseball diamond in the heart of Baltimore, The Meadow is now a thriving community garden and agricultural learning center created and maintained by the Mid-Atlantic Region of Whole Foods Market. Mark "Coach" Smallwood, Whole Foods Market's local forager for this area, first discovered the neglected site in 2009 while walking his dogs around the neighborhood. After nearly a year of negotiation with Baltimore City, he was granted access to break ground on vegetable production.

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