High School

Local Urban Gardeners

Our mission is: To create a garden bassed community center that can serve as a place of learning, a place to grow nutritious food, to promote sustainable gardening and inspire community improvement. 

We are working to develop a community garden and learning lab at Natividad Creek Park in Salinas,CA. It has been an ongoing process since 2013. This year looks promising and if all goes well we should be able to break ground in early spring 2016!

SPEC School Gardens Program

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

 

Grow Your Own!

Grow Your Own! (GYO!) is The Ecology Center's community-building initiative dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food ecosystem and community. GYO! supports a growing network of over two dozen school gardens and their leaders with mentorship, trainings, curriculum, design support and resources to help create sustainable gardens and programing that are beautiful, educational, and functional, integrating essential elements of holistic ecological design. 

pleasantville edible school gardens

Pleasantville gardens serve the elementary, middle and high school. Students grow, harvest and eat the crops. Healthy eating and good nutrition is taught. 

Growing Oshkosh's School Garden Program

Growing Oshkosh's mission is to raise awareness and educate citizens about the numerous benefits of fresh, healthy, local and fair food (and food production) . We are working with the schools in the Winnebago County to bring edible gardens to all schools, beginning with the K-5 schools. GO helps design and build the initial raised garden beds, one for each grade K-5 for a total of six beds. At schools where the elementary and middle exist in the same building, the number of beds can be extended to incorporate the middle school grades levels.

Marshall School & Community Garden

The Marshall School & Community Garden is located at Marshall High School and serves the Searcy County School District in the heart of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains. 

Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School Community Garden

This school garden program engages Holyoke high school students at the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in hands on food systems education. True to the values of the school's namesake, Paulo Freire, garden educators strive to integrate social justice into all parts of the curriculum. School gardeners grow crops valued by latino communities in Holyoke, such as gandules and aji dulce. Also, students participate in school food research and improvement projects. 

Kamaile Academy School Garden

The garden is a mandatory class from grades K-6. After 6th grade some High School students do participate as an extracurricular on Wednesdays.

Lowell High School Career Academy Garden

LHSCA is an alternative high school for students who moved from the main high school. Since its beginning, the garden has become a very popular place for students. It was built right in front of the school so students see it every time they walk into the school.

Medomak Valley High School Heirloom Seed Project

Medomak Valley High School has the oldest school based seed saving program in the United States. We preserve over 800 varieties in our seed bank and our gardens are expanding each year.   

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