Kindergarten

Garibaldi Grade School

The Garibaldi Grade School Garden aims to serve as a tool for standards based science applications, nutrition education, and good food access and literacy in the greater school community. 

Openlands Building School Gardens

Building School Gardens installs gardens at Chicago public schools to achieve the following purposes:

The Carrot Academy

The Carrot Academy is an initiative to offer alternative classroom like experiences to youth at our LOVE Building facility. A traditional Academy event allows children to go out into the garden and work with plants, weed and harvest, compost and plant. They then take some of  their bounty into the kitchen, prepare their meal and sit down and talk about a topic related to their self sufficiency, self esteem and sustainable food systems. Then they wash up and put their dishes away.

Kid's Cooking for Life

~~Kids Cooking for Life (KCL) is dedicated to empowering young people to enjoy the benefits, pleasures and skills of cooking healthy food; promoting longer, healthier and happier lives. It was developed to teach children how to cook and prepare healthy meals with the aim of preventing and reducing childhood obesity and equipping youth and their families to make mindful decisions about food.

Springhouse Green

 The reinvention of our food system is now part of the national dialogue with employers, employees, and communities at large looking to positively affect today’s concerns about escalating health care costs, food security and nutrition, personal and family health, community development, and “carbon footprint.” Springhouse Green offers simple solutions for greening corporate and community spaces with vegetable garden buildouts, nutrition counseling, lunch-and-learn workshops, garden maintenance services, and LEED applications.

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