Lower Elementary

Ben Franklin Nature Committee

Ben Franklin's Nature Committee maintains vegetable, herb, and fruit raised-bed gardens* and a butterfly garden. We use our gardens to educate students and their families on the health benefits of fresh grown produce, promote school/family relationships, and provide much needed time in nature for our families and community. The Nature Committee gardens are supported by Ben Franklin's Wellness Committee, school administration, and UCONN's Cooperative Extension  Fund.

*container gardens will be built spring 2014

 

 

 

 

 

The Bella Garden Project

The Bella Garden Project surrounds itself in a learning experience for the students with a project-based concept.  The understanding of growing food from seed, health, wellness, teamwork, ownership, and the empowerment to become environmental stewards of our land encompass our educational experience in a Montessori learning institution.

Davis School for Independent Study School Garden

Our school has four large raised beds, some citrus trees, and a bee garden.

The Garden of Possibilities

The large, organic edible garden at Carthay Environmental Studies Magnet school is the lab in which all science education is supported for students grades pre-k throught 5th. The Carthay garden includes chickens, raised beds, citus and stone fruit orchards, a tropical garden, aquaponics, BioSCAN insect population study site, habitat and wildlife study gardens.

Nokomis Elementary School

Nokomis Community Garden serves the adjacent Head Start program and elementary school of 380 students. The 2013 - 2014 academic term marks a point of transition from state funding (Nutrition Network for Healthy California) to federal/private funding for our program (FoodCorps). FoodCorps service member Keegan Niland facilitates garden/nutrition lessons for grades 1 - 5 both in-school and afterschool. Students, staff, and Keegan are collaborating this school year to care for the garden, promote healthy choices, and involve more volunteers.

Manor School

Oak Manor Elementary School Garden was the first school garden in the Ukiah Unified School District.  It has undergone some changes over the past 20+ years and it is thriving and growing for students to experience the abundance of good real food!

The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado

The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado’s mission is to grow a healthier community through the development and support of youth and community garden programs that promote health and wellness, environmental stewardship and a sustainable local food system. We envision a thriving healthy community, where people are connected to their land, their food and each other through gardens.

DeLaveaga Elementary School Life Lab Garden

We are a school garden that serves the entire school T-K to 5th grade every year. We primarily focus on standards-based science, environmental, and gardening education.

 

Ocean Shore School Garden

EAT is the Environmental Action Team. Our mission is to support Ocean Shore School's environmental education and activities, ranging from recycling, composting, and air quality, to landscaping and the organic school garden. We support the school with monthly Planting, Pickup and Picnic days that maintain the outdoor landscaping and gardens, as well as Green School initiatives to promote alternative transportation and waste reduction.

Sauvie Island Center

The Sauvie Island Center serves elementary school youth of Portland by providing hands-on educational field trips at our Sauvie Island location in Howell Territorial Park.  Through our education programs, the Center seeks to increase the food, farm and environmental literacy of the next generation.

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