Kindergarten

Green Thumbs Growing Kids

Green Thumbs Growing Kids serves 3,000 children, youth and families every year in hands-on experiential programs in four school food gardens, and also greenhouse, summertime and after-school programs. We have a youth empowerment program and hire students for the summer, resulting in deeper community engagement in the school gardens, which function as a food security measure in the low-income communities where our programs are located.

The Food Education Enrichment and Development (F.E.E.D.) Organization

The Food Education Enrichment and Development (F.E.E.D.) Organization is focused on enhancing
the lives of young women between the ages of 18-21 who have aged out of the foster system and
have limited life and employable skills. Through the F.E.E.D. Organization's "Let's Eat" program,
participants will learn how to grow and prepare foods they have farmed themselves (this includes
canning). These young women will also be given the opportunity to become Safe Staff certified

Farm-Based Education Network

The Farm-Based Education Network is an international nonprofit community established to support and strengthen the work of farm-based educators and administrators who contribute to the vitality of working agricultural landscapes and local food systems, human and community health, and education of current and future generations.

Ambohidray School Garden

 I am a Peace Corps volunteer teaching agricultural education to the students at my local elementary school. 

Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes

The Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes is a Pre-K-Grade 5 public magnet school focused on sustainability.  Each of the 11 classrooms have at least one garden bed that grows food and flowers connected to the classroom curriculum.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is an education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.  We offer daily field trips for school children (pre-K - 6th grade), throughout the academic year, as well as summer camps for youth ages 4-17, summer "Stewards-in-Training" opportunities for teens, and college and post-college internships and apprenticeships, based either in our education department or at our 7-acre Market Garden. 

Gorman Heritage Farm

Gorman Heritage Farm is a 122-acre working farm and outdoor education center, which invites its visitors to explore and learn the history, methods and values of a working family farm in a natural setting. We are located on Reading Road in Evendale, Ohio. The Farm is one-half mile south of Glendale-Milford Road.

Garden School Foundation

 The Garden School Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to garden-based education. Our pilot program at the 24th Street Elementary School in the West Adams neighborhood of South Los Angeles was founded when the school community decided that kids had enough asphalt - and not enough nature. 7 years later, the 24th Street gardens span over 1 acre and include 55 fruit trees, 20 vegetable beds, habitat gardens, Native CA Woodlands, a reading garden, and multiple teaching spaces.

The Wisdom Garden

 The Wisdom Garden supports elementary, middle and high school, students, as well as after school, pre-school, Saturday and summer camp participants through agriculture based programs. Our 5,000 square foot Wisdom Garden is located at a public school, Spann Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi.It was implemented as a teaching garden to help promote healthy eating, nutrition and agriculture education at this Title I school where 88% of the students receive free and reduced lunch.

Weinstein JCC Kid's Place Garden

 The garden is small right now but we are growing kale, radish, turnip, and mustards. It is part of the Weinstein JCC's afterschool program called Kid's Place for grades K-5. Gardening is one class in the afterschool program and it's just getting off the ground! For 30 minutes each week, every grade has their gardening class. So far they've devoured kale chips (and raw kale!), used veggies and fruits as stamps, sampled radish sprouts (reactions from 'that tastes like baby food' to 'when can we have more?' were shouted), and worked in the garden doing various chores.

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