Kindergarten

JD Rivers' Children's Garden

You and your youth group are invited to come out to play, learn, and explore at the JD Rivers’ Children’s Garden! This one acre food and flower garden is nestled into Theodore Wirth Park along Glenwood Ave. It provides ample opportunity to catch frogs along Bassett’s Creek, wade in Wirth Lake, meander through the prairie to search for butterflies, and walk through Wirth woods. Youth gardeners plant, weed, water, compost, harvest, prepare, sample, and take home the garden produce like kale, basil, flowers, and tomatoes.

Delta Elementary Charter School's Learning Garden

The DECS Learning Garden gives each of our students hands-on experience in our agricultural community, while allowing teachers the opportunity to teach curriculum standards outside the four walls of the classroom.

Community School for Creative Education Gardening Program Inspired by Waldorf Education

The Community School  is the first urban multi cultural  charter in the country inspired by Waldorf education.  Following the Waldorf model, at Community School, children experience an education of head (cognitive) heart  (social emotional) and hand (sensory integration) , readying them to lead in college and in life.  The focus of this school inspired by Waldorf education is that all core content is brought through the arts and nature.    Main lessons, the first block of the day, begin with  “circle time”  of singing, recitation, kinetic mental math and other move

Come Grow With Us - PASC

We are a special needs school serving learners with Autism between the ages of 4 and 21.  Our garden is being used to address vocational needs for high school students, develop leisure/recreational skills that can be shared, improve communication skills, and meet cross-curricular academic goals.

Phillippi Shores Elementary School Garden

Phillippi Shores School Garden contains 40 raised beds and is maintained primarily by Chef Paul Mattison. He is a proud sponsor of the Chefs Move to School Program and a proud father whose daughter attends Phillippi Shores.  The program includes a variety of academic components and is partnered with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center and sponsored by Mattison's Restaurants and Catering.

Al Salam Day School Edible Garden

•To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality. 

The Association of Copenhagen School Gardens

School gardens have existed in Denmark since 1903, but have lived a quiet life since their heyday in the 1950s. Now the gardens are going through another major resurgence and demand. A great interest in teaching children about nature and the origin of food has put school gardens on the Copenhagen schools’ timetables again.

Brookside Defenders of the Earth Farm Club

Our program started two years ago with a dream to have fresh veggies and fruits for our students K-5th grade to eat.   I found the food in the cafeteria to be less than healthy and saw students tossing tray after tray of food away.  Then, after speaking with students, we decided to grow our own food and SURPRISE if they grow it--they will eat it!!!  Students are eating broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, cucumbers and lots of salads with kale and spinach---foods they never would even try before.   We have a very supportive principal at our school who encourages us to grow and, as fun

Silicon Valley HealthCorps

In an innovative partnership, The Health Trust has joined together with AmeriCorps and 10 local organizations to form the Silicon Valley HealthCorps. The goal of this collaboration is to improve community health by providing ongoing garden-based nutrition education to youth in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. The HealthCorps will also increase the availability and affordability of locally grown produce through the development of new community and school gardens, low-cost farm stands, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs.

Edible Garden Project - Fed Up

We’re bringing students from kindergarten to grade 7 out of the classroom and into the garden to learn the cycles of food production from seed to soil. Our students grow food, harvest it, prepare it, and enjoy it – they’re “Fed Up” and into previously out of reach world of nutritious fresh food.

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