High School

Highlander Charter School

Our school first planned a garden in 2005, which has been incorporated into our science curriciula from kindergarten to 8th grade, as well as into afterschool and summer programs. Over the course of the year, all of our 300-plus students get an opportunity to work and learn in the garden.

Detroit Institute of Technology

The Gardens @ DIT will provide the opportunity for our students, staff and community to participate in garden-based learning that will promote and support our educational objectives and ignite creativity, problem solving, and hands-on, experiential learning. We hope that those involved will learn empathy, patience and self-discipline. Our garden will provide the opportunity to teach these lifelong lessons and to give students an avenue to a more fulfilling learning experience. We recognize that our garden will be an avenue to higher standards.

The Farm School

Our goal is to create a permaculture site and learning program at the school. Permaculture is a set of techniques and principals that design for human needs while caring for the earth. The garden is the central component. We want an outdoor, living classroom that is integrated into our curriculum in a hands on way. We want a learning environment that fosters communication, cooperation, critical thinking and decision making. We want to provide students with the resources and opportunities to follow their interests.

Lapham Elementary School

Our goal is to offer outdoor experiential learning opportunities in order to encourage exercise and healthy eating; expose students to the concepts of sustainable living and conservation; connect students to the natural world to inspire appreciation and respect for nature; encourage the integration of garden activities into classroom curriculum; and build community.

KIPP Renaissance High School

The goals of this garden are to educate students about nutrition; to provide access for students to fresh produce; and to equip students with leadership skills, independence and self-sufficiency through their work in the garden. KIPP Renaissance High School moved to a new location this year. Although the students continue to maintain the Frederick Douglass Garden at their former school campus and sell the vegetables and herbs they harvest from the garden at the Sankofa Farmers Market every week, they are eager to develop a school garden in their new campus location.

Sandcreek Middle School

First and foremost is the goal to engagement of our students in the agricultural process. Our school is very involved in S.T.E.M. activities/interventions (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The projects will be looked at from both an agricultural and a scientific approach. We intend that all of our 779 students participate during our S.T.E.M. activity rotations (weekly). In addition, we have several schools that are close enough for walking field trips (three elementary schools and a high school). These other schools have a combined population of 2,600 students.

Dooley Schools at St. Joseph's Villa

The Villa offers special and alternative schools for students K-12 who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder; emotional and learning disabilities; are on long-term suspension from public schools; or who need a smaller and more flexible learning environment. The large majority of these children are from low-income urban neighborhoods and have little opportunity to garden or even be outdoors in a natural setting, other than at the Villa. 

Arsenal Technical High School

The John H. Boner Community Center and Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center inspires neighbors and partners to improve the quality of life on the Near Eastside by providing tools for change and growth. Ultimately, we hope the garden and the learning opportunities made available through it's existence help play a small part in achieving this mission.

Fugees Academy

We have two primary goals: the first is to create and maintain a healthy, sustainable garden in which all (56) students in our academy of sixth through ninth-grade students will have the experience of producing food from the soil, and to use our produce in school lunches. We cultivate six five-by-ten-foot raised beds, as well as herbs in containers. Because we are located in central Georgia, we are able to produce vegetables all year. We serve most of our produce in the school cafeteria and donate 5% to the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

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