Lower Elementary

Greauxing Healthy Baton Rouge is Slow Food BR's farm-to-school program. It is a replication of the Sustainable Food Center's Sprouting Healthy Kids program in Austin, TX. In our first year, we are working with about 100 students and three teachers at Dufrocq Elementary. The students with whom we currently work form two in-school MicroSociety ventures and meet for 3 hours per week.

The Food Forest Classroom (FFC) project was started as a way to create a sustainable outdoor environment that engages students and the wider school community in creating beautiful outdoor spaces that respect the local environment, model stewardship, and sustain the community by providing food for the body and simple work with the earth that nurtures the spirit. Fostering a Food Forest Classroom on our school grounds will establish a permanent and sustainable model for how people can work with nature and design productive garden spaces using nature as a model, also known as permaculture.

The goal of the garden is to make learning fun for our students. We are just teaching science now at our school and we want to get our students interested and engaged and we believe the garden will be a good way to do that. We also have a low-income community and many of our students do not have access to gardens at home so we would like to offer that opportunity

Our goal for our school garden is to have a resource that will serve as a hands on learning tool for all students at our school. Our students in grades kindergarten through second grade study the life cycle of plants while third grade students go into the study of parts of plants as well as processes such as photosynthesis. We would love to incorporate a variety of plants and flowers to help our students have true hands on experience with these cycles. Students in 4th grade study Idaho State History.