Kindergarten

The IPS/Butler University Laboratory School Garden

 We currently have 9 garden boxes, an outdoor classroom, a three tiered compost system, three chickens, an orchard, and rain garden in our urban setting. We use the garden as a teaching tool to not only teach about sustainability, plant propogation, and life cycles, but also integrate it into our curriculum as much as we can. We are looking to find ways to continually use our program in meaningful ways that are beneficial not only to the children, but to our families, teachers, and surrounding community members.

Veggielution School Garden Program

We currently work at 2 local Elementary Schools, Goss and McKinley, to offer outdoor and hands on education in our School Gardens Program. Through their school garden classes, every child in these schools gets to learn about a myriad of subjects from math and science to botany and the environment. These classes offer students a chance to get out of the classroom and learn about the world around them through tangible experiences and interdisciplinary learning.

Island Grown Schools

 Island Grown Schools is Martha's Vineyard Farm to School Program.  We work with almost every schoolage child on the island, from 2-18 years old, at all seven K-12 schools and at six island pre-schools.  We have installed and support gardens at all 13 of our partner schools, work with cafeteria staff to bring locally sourced meat and produce to school meals at every school, collaborate with classroom teachers to lead farm, gaden, and nutrition-based curriculum-tied lessons, and lead field trips to island family farms.  

Yellow Tractor

 Yellow Tractor is a mission-driven organization built on the Social Enterprise model. We are in business to create lasting, positive change in individual health and well-being and seek partners who share this objective.  When you partner with Yellow Tractor you enable us to provide the same benefits to organizations in under-served communities through our non profit arm, The Yellow Tractor Project. Together we can bring about real social change.

Greenwood School Garden

Greenwood School Garden currently features six raised beds (one for each class level) and is working on integrating growing vegetables into the school curriculum as well as using the garden to teach children about healthy eating. 

Oscar Mayer Magnet School Garden Project

The Garden Project oversees a number of programs here Oscar Mayer Magnet School, a Chicago Public Elementary School in the heart of the city. We have started a lunchroom composting program, planted four award-winning gardens on school grounds (including a bio-diverse native Illinois garden in conjunction with DePaul University), we have six chickens living in a custom coop in front of the school and we just installed two beehives. Our school serves students ages 3 years old to the 8th grade and we have both the Montessori curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.

Edendale Food for Thought and Garden to Table

 Our programmes involve students between the ages of five and eleven years. Our junior students participate in the class teacher-led programme ‘Food for Thought’. Our older students participate in the NZ Garden to Table Trust’s programme where they have a cooking lesson with our kitchen specialist and a gardening lesson with our garden specialist once every fortnight. We have numerous edible gardens in the school, gardens which have food and flowers, an orchard and other fruit trees planted around the school. We also have a student-built greenhouse made of recycled plastic bottles.

Princeton School Gardens Cooperative

The Princeton School Gardens Cooperative is small 501c3 that works to increase food literacy in the public schools.

Mission: Fostering garden- and food-based education in the classroom, cafeteria and community.

Brookline Elementary

A garden classroom after-school program taught by members of Urban Harvest: a Houston non-profit involved in Garden Education, starting and maintaining Community Gardens, and organizing Farmers Markets.

Alcott Elementary

A garden classroom after-school program taught by members of Urban Harvest: a Houston non-profit involved in Garden Education, starting and maintaining Community Gardens, and organizing Farmers Markets.

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