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Chesapeake
and REAL School Gardens work together to fuel the future of North
Texas – one school garden at a time. | | http://www.askchesapeake.com | | REAL School
Gardens is proud to partner with Chesapeake Energy to nurture a
generation of healthier, happier, and smarter kids across Barnett
Shale communities. Chesapeake
and REAL School Gardens work together to fuel the future of North
Texas – one school garden at a time. | |
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| | As part of
its commitment to strengthening local communities, Chesapeake Energy
is proving itself a regional leader in bringing innovative learning
to high-poverty elementary schools. A New Learning Garden in East Fort Worth Thanks to the leadership support of Chesapeake Energy, February 4, 2012 was an exciting day for the East Handley Elementary School community, as its state-of-the-art learning garden came to life! More than 200 volunteers came together to create an outdoor classroom complete with organic vegetable beds, small wildlife habitats, a rainwater catchment system, a composting station and more. " Chesapeake has been a long-term partner in East Fort Worth, and we're proud to share the bounty beneath our feet with the community," Public Affairs Manager Mercedes Bolen told the crowd. | | Chesapeake's partnership with
REAL School Gardens was launched in the fall of 2009 with a
leadership gift that helped us to install eight learning gardens in four
school districts. Schools in Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie,
and North Richland Hills received state-of-the-art outdoor classroom
spaces that year thanks in part to the company’s investment. In
the spring of 2010 alone, more than 4,000 children received
opportunities to engage in hands-on, meaningful learning in school
gardens sponsored by the company. In the
fall of 2010, Chesapeake Energy and REAL School Gardens deepened
their partnership by focusing their work together on one special
school community. Last year Chesapeake chose to make a new learning
garden a reality for the children of Arlington’s Foster Elementary
School. The company’s investment in Foster Elementary’s children sparked participation from across the community, with the school’s
garden installation event playing host to volunteers from local
businesses, a Boy Scout troop, universities, and city government as well as hundreds of
parents, neighbors, children, and educators. Nearly
everyone in our region is touched in a positive way by the natural
gas industry. Thanks to its commitment to providing children and
communities with tools for success, Chesapeake Energy has ensured
that 10 of our local schools are at the forefront of a national
movement to get kids outside and learning! | | | | 
I.M. Terrell Elementary, Fort Worth ISD | |  Goodman Elementary, Arlington ISD | | | | Read about how education is coming alive for local children in school gardens in Chesapeake's Community Ties Summer 2010 publication.
Read more about Chesapeake's work in the community here. WHAT A PRINCIPAL IS SAYING... "The
majority of our students live in apartments where there is very little
'green space' and they don’t often have the opportunity to see a garden
much less be actively involved in actually planting, maintaining, and
harvesting from a garden. The children perceive the garden as almost magical—every
day they are finding new and wondrous things to point out in the garden
from the odd fuzzy okra to the way the fish blend into their
surroundings in the pond to the milkweed that will hopefully attract the
Monarch butterflies so we can observe their life cycles…it truly is a
little paradise on our campus." - Sabrina Lindsey, Principal, The Academy at Carrie F. Thomas
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