High School

Genesis Community Garden

The program began as a school garden for my special education students located in alternative program.  I joined up with a community agency to write grants to build a greenhouse in order to raise seedlings for the community gardens in our county.  We had a set back last year and are currently planning to provide seedlings for 18 community gardens and re-establish our school garden too. 

Consumer Economics and Workforce Readiness

We are just getting off the ground this year.   Ag Department, Family and Consumer scicnes Department, Business Department, Health Education and Special Education all wokring together on this project.  Have a greenhouse which will serve for our starting garden then plan to move outdoors with many plants, berry garden and edible flowers.  Our Food Services director is always assiting and is willing buy products from our garden to be used in the school cafeteria. 

 

Marist School Organic Garden

An organic school garden started in 2008 by the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents of Marist School in Atlanta, Ga.

Martha's Vineyard Island Educators

We are a group of educators, cafeteria managers and farmers working together on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, to bring garden education into every classroom.

Richmond High School Urban Agriculture

We are an underfunded high school program teaching our students about growing food locally, sustainability, health, and mindfulness.

Plants for Human Health Institute

At North Carolina State University's Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) we are leading the discovery and delivery of innovative plant-based solutions to advance human health. PHHI includes faculty researchers and Extension personnel. School gardening is one focus area of the Extension program, STEM Education. Through our school garden resources and engagement, PHHI is equipping teachers to integrate curriculum standards in the edible classroom and improving community nutrition through fresh produce.

 

Countryside Conservancy

Countryside Conservancy connects people, food, and land.  We manage three thriving farmers’ markets; offer educational programming for farmers, backyard gardeners, and home cooks with our Countryside U courses; and through our Countryside Initiative program have reestablished working family farms in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Dover High School & Community Garden

The Dover High School and Community Garden functions as an outdoor classroom for students enrolled in an Intro to Life Science class at Dover High School and Career Technical Center in Dover, New Hampshire. Students enrolled during the spring semester learn to plan a spring vegetable garden, start seeds indoors and outdoors, water, weed, mulch, and harvest spring crops. Students enrolled during the fall semester learn to plan a fall vegetable garden, start seeds outdoors, water, weed, harvest late summer and fall crops, and "put a garden to bed" for the winter.

Teaching Biology with Aquaponics

Using aquaponics to teach biology course content. Each of my classes will be designing and constucting a desktop aquaponic system to grow their own food. I also have a 230 gallon Nelson and Pade F5 greenhouse system that the kids use to experiment with and grow various kids of produce.

With a new high school construction project in the works I want to expand this idea to producing food for our cafeteria.

How Does it Grow?

How Does it Grow? is the first online hub for teaching agricultural literacy to ages 12 through adulthood through the power of storytelling.

By creating broadcast-quality videos and other free, multi-platform tools, our goal is to reconnect people with how their food grows in order to inspire greater connection with — and demand for — whole, natural foods.

Within the release of just the first few episodes of the "How Does it Grow?" web series, our videos quickly clocked over 100,000 plays.

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