College/University

Food Day

Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Food Day is every year on October 24, and seeks to inspire the public to work together to address today’s pressing food issues, such as obesity, access to healthy food, sustainability, and labor rights.  

University of Montana Dining Services Garden

 The UDS Garden and associated closed-loop campus food system serve as a living learning laboratory where students, faculty, staff, and guests can learn about food production through various gardening methods, passive solar greenhouse design and management, innovative waste reduction, composting, and water catchment. The garden provides an alternative learning environment where people connect with each other, the land, and agriculture, through the shared work of growing food for the campus community.

MU Children's Learning Garden

 The MU Children's Learning Garden is a collaboration between the MU Child Development Lab and the USDA-Agricultural Research Services People's Garden Project. With the help of University of Missouri community organizers and faculture, the garden provides learning experiences for Children ages 18 months to 5 years old. During the growing season, children participate in all aspects of planning, growing, and preparing foods. The garden is meant to reconnect children with food and nature and facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration on the Land Grant University.

The Amazing Places Project

The Amazing Places Project

We operate in partnership with Community Space Challenge, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Community Space Challenge is about young people taking on run down and forgotten spaces and changing them into fresh green places for everyone to use and enjoy. It covers 70 areas of the country and focuses on involving young people growing up in tough situations: they learn about the environment, growing fresh food, creating sensory and wildlife community gardens, and linking them into their communities.

Children & youths' gardening association/ Kumpula school garden/ Green Branch Youth Program

The Helsinki School Garden celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.  The original motivation for school gardening activities in the city  was the concern for the welfare of the working class families.

The Giving Field on Liberty Street

 The Giving Field on Liberty Street is a donation garden with a mission of feeding the hungry fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, as well as, provide education on living a healthier and more sustainable life through the garden.  All of the harvested food goes to the area soup kitchens to feed the hungry. 

 

This one acre piece of land is located across the street from St. Anne School that teaches children from pre-k thru eighth grade. The students and parents take an active part in planting, maintaining and harvesting at The Field.

Vertical Tower Garden

Aeroponic Tower Garden is a vertical growing system that can be utilized by small spaces. This would allow more schools to be a part of the edible education project. Not all schools have the land necessary for traditional gardening. All children need to be infored of where real food comes from and the benefits of healthy eating. The system is easy to use and environmentally friendly. I have seen preschoolers plant and tend to the garden.

Farm-Based Education Network

The Farm-Based Education Network is an international nonprofit community established to support and strengthen the work of farm-based educators and administrators who contribute to the vitality of working agricultural landscapes and local food systems, human and community health, and education of current and future generations.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is an education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.  We offer daily field trips for school children (pre-K - 6th grade), throughout the academic year, as well as summer camps for youth ages 4-17, summer "Stewards-in-Training" opportunities for teens, and college and post-college internships and apprenticeships, based either in our education department or at our 7-acre Market Garden. 

Edible Garden Patches ~Growing Green Program

The program inspires and educates our community at all levels to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and conserve wildlife habitat.

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