Kindergarten

Lowell Elementary School

The goal of the Lowell School garden is to provide an outdoor classroom where our students can learn a variety of topics ranging from nutrition to science, language arts to community service. Our garden provides a safe hands-on learning environment for our students who have had little opportunity to take ownership of anything. We strive to educate children on where food comes from and to give students the tools they need to grow their own garden in the future.

ESYNOLA, John Dibert Community School

Located right off the hustle and bustle of Orleans Avenue are the gardens at John Dibert Community School. These gardens showcase the entrance of the school and serve to welcome students, parents, teachers, staff, and butterflies alike! Daily and throughout the year at these gardens, the children and adults in our school community have the opportunity to delight in the harvest and smells of fresh herbs grown outside their front door, and keenly observe lizards and a variety of local and migratory butterflies who find their homes in our large habitat garden beds.

J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet PTO

The garden offers both students and teachers the opportunity to explore and interact with the natural environment in multiple disciplines including math social studies art and theater. Through expansion of the schoolyard vegetable beds and the addition of the potato towers more children will experience multiple lessons in the gardens (the existing six beds proved inadequate for the school community in 2011) and we will have more produce to contribute to our partnering food-shelf.

Hopkins Hill School

Creating raised vegetable garden beds at our school is helping us to learn about ecosystems in the real world, to learn about gardening and where produce comes from, and to have fresh produce for our lunch room. It allows us to donate to the community food bank and will help to make our school grounds greener. It will also allow for future learning about composting and water conservation. We are proud of the new garden shed and rain barrels that we added this year.

Health Wellness and Environmental Studies Magnet School

Our goal is to educate our children and parents in healthy living by providing learning opportunities in the gardens and student kitchen. Our theory is if they have ownership in the planting care giving harvesting preparing and cooking of fresh produce they will broaden their pallet for healthy foods. Because of our focus we have been able to tap into our local master gardeners hospital and university for community experts for advice and volunteers in creating our learning areas.

Harriet Tubman School

Through the Living Laboratory program Greater Newark Conservancy has brought Newark Public School children outdoors to explore nature. This garden is becoming a diverse and vital resource for the entire school community. Children are not simply observers of nature but active stewards both benefactors and beneficiaries of the produce of the garden. Cultivating the garden gives students a direct connection to where food comes from.

Goler Community Garden at the Downtown Health Plaza

  Our garden is located at a safety net health clinic has 65,000 patient visits a year.  The clinic serves Pediatric, Ob/Gyn and Adult Medicine patients.  The garden provides fresh produce to the clinics at no charge as well as providing learning opportunities for all the neighborhood.  There are regular workdays for all volunteers with special times for instruction on gardening.  Also there are cooking classes for all ages.

Greenbelt Middle School at the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom

Since the Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens project sprouted in 2010, Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society (CHEARS) has established outdoor classroom gardens that are multi-generational, handicapped accessible, beautifully artistic, and are a great example showing how to grow local healthy food at home.

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