Kindergarten

The Food School at Common Ground Urban Farm

 The Food School is a start up non-profit organization in Ft. Collins, CO that offers unique agricultural experiences combined with on- and off-site food education for children and adults. Currently, our staff visits local classrooms and delivers standards-aligned food educaiton curriculum about topics such as food equity, food security, and faces of the food chain.

Cobb Mountain Elementary School

The purpose of the Cobb Mountain Elementary school garden is to create and sustain an inviting, engaging and instructive outdoor organic classroom for the education and pleasure of our students. The garden is used to supplement and enhance core curriculum in addition to producing nutritious, sustainably grown produce for the cafeteria and community. Students, teachers and community members are involved in every aspect of the garden's growth and development including learning about nutritious food choices, planning the garden, planting, tending, harvesting, and preparing healthy foods.

Washington Elementary

School gardens are a wonderful way to use gardening time as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agricultural concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects such as math, science, art, health and physical education while encouraging an understanding of personal and social responsibility. This project will promote healthy lifestyle skills while relating educational goals to the common core and relevant elementary school curriculum.

Forestville Union School District

Our goal is to provide a garden experience that encourages and allows students and the school community to work together to create an outdoor learning adventure that grows good scholars, leaders, friends, and stewards of the earth! Children who use organizational and math skills to plan what to plant, and how to do it, become better scholars. Children who take on leadership responsibilities, such as teaching a group of younger students what a Three-Sisters garden is and how to plant one, practice leadership skills.

Southside Family Charter School

Southside Family Charter School's goal is to maintain and expand our strong garden program!  For three years we have been fortunate to have a thriving school garden, thanks to teachers, administrative, parent, volunteer and community support. The garden is an integral tool for our students and we use it to enhance reading, social studies, science, and the food program.

Montessori School of Louisville

Montessori School of Louisville is planning a garden based upon the Edible Classroom Project. The garden will be developed in a green space behind the school which contains a few much-loved raised vegetable beds. Because of the success and interest in these vegetable beds, we want to expand our garden into a complete outdoor classroom. This outdoor classroom will be an extension of our indoor learning in every major subject area. Additionally, it will provide a means for engagement with the local community, by extending the use of the gardens to nearby neighborhoods.

Washington Elementary School

Grantsdale School is a small, four-classroom schoolhouse located in an agricultural area in the Bitterroot Valley outside the city of Hamilton, Montana. Our historical roots are tied to the land, with many farms still in operation. This connection to nature is what we hope to perpetuate by teaching our children the value of making healthy soil, growing organic food, preparing it, eating it and sharing it with our community. Our garden currently has four raised beds, one bed in the ground for flowers to attract beneficial insects, an apple tree and three raised beds made from large tires.

Daniel Webster Elementary School

Daniel Webster Elementary School (DW) has two garden programs - an in school program, the Garden and Environmental Education Program, is taught by a paid, professional Garden Coordinator and provides students, grades K through 5 with instruction in gardening, composting, nutrition, and environmental stewardship.

Austin Discovery School

We began a small garden when we started our school in 2005. Since then we have developed an entire eco-wellness program that is now part of our core curriculum. We use this garden, in tandem with our composting system and chicken coop, to teach our students a holistic approach not only to science, but to everyday life. Each of our grade levels are responsible for maintaining portions of the garden for the school year as part of the learning process.

All Saints' Day School

The All Saints' Organic Garden is a cross-curricular outdoor classroom that provides each grade with the opportunity to learn about the interconnections of nature and help each student find their place in the natural world. 

Planning and caring for the garden provides children with the  basic knowledge they need to become stewards of a living system that needs their care. 

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