Kindergarten

Wheeling Country Day School

A private School in Wheeling, WV committed to healthy eating, gardening and supporting businesses and agriculture in our community.

D11 Good Food Project

The D11 Good Food Project brings healthy, fresh, sustainable food to 24,000 students daily across 65 serving locations through the Colorado Springs School District 11 Food & Nutrition Services department.  Last year, $750,000 was put back into the local community through purchases of grass-finished beef, milk, fresh produce, and yes, coffee for our catering department.

The Galileo Garden Project produced 1,000 lbs. of fresh produce for the D11 Good Food Project in the five beds outdoors plus garden beds in our 42' geodesic dome greenhouse between January and September 2012.

Chisenhale Primary School's Edible School Playground

We grow a huge range of fruits and vegetables from raspberries and blueberries to pumpkins, lettuce and onions. Pupils sow the seeds, nurture the crops and then harvest. Some produce goes to the the school cafeteria so the pupils get a chance to eat what they have grown. Some produce gets used in lessons across all curriculum subjects. All pupils get a chance to learn about growing their own food and living in a more sustainable way. We run lunchtime and after school gardening clubs and each class has two head gardeners who go on gardening trips.

Voorhies Edible School Garden

My name is Nadia Guajardo and I am a 6th grade teacher with Bakersfield City School District. I am writing to you on behalf of Voorhies Elementary, in hopes of rallying support for our new community project of creating an edible garden at our school site. The edible garden will be designed to educate our students about the important practices of horticulture and sustainability through hands-on experience, integrated science-based curriculum, and a collective awareness of the importance of eco-responsibility.

Maine School Garden Network

The Maine School Garden Network is a volunteer organization whose mission is to promote and facilitate educational gardens for Maine youth, grades pre-K through high school.  We meet monthly in Brunswick, Maine.  We have a website with resources for educational gardeners and a Maine school garden directory.  We hold professional development conferences for educators and engage in other activities to help get school gardens started and to publicize their benefits.

Tucson Village Farm

Tucson Village Farm (TVF) is a working urban farm by and for the youth of Tucson. TVF is a seed-to-table program designed to reconnect young people to a healthy food system, teach them how to grow and prepare fresh food and empower them to make healthy life choices. We do this through a variety of dynamic, hands-on programs targeting all age groups:
Growing Forward: K-5 agriculture and nutrition education field trip
Digging Deeper: Grades 6-12 agriculture, nutrition education and food preparation
Farm Camp: Farm immersion for youth ages 7-11

Slow Food International

 Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment.

A non-profit member-supported association, Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Little Owl Preschool

 We are a small Reggio-inspired preschool, recently opened in 2010, serving children ages 2 1/2 to 6 years of age.  When we were planning the things we felt were important for Little Owl to focus on, the nature of food was right up at the top of our list. To give our children a “language of food” meant to share a way for children to see how food comes to our table.  To show how wonderfully delicious healthy, fresh food can be and to enable children to make good nutritional choices in their eating habits was an essential goal.

Youth Villages AmeriCorps Community Garden

The Youth Villages AmeriCorps community garden began in 2007, as an AmeriCorps service learning project designed to create a garden space for learning and meditation at the Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus in Douglasville, GA. The first planting occurred in the spring of 2008, and every spring, summer and fall, AmeriCorps members, students, staff and teachers plant and harvest organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers.

Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Cub

The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL.  Our mission is to teach and encourage children to make healthy eating a part of their daily lives and to combat childhood obesity within the community; by encouraging families to cook from scratch and decrease food related health issues.  The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club consists of local chefs who volunteer their time to teach hands-on cooking classes to children and their guardians.  We are proud to be a part of the Lets Move! network of programs to keep kids healthy.  .

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