Lower Elementary

Slow Food International

 Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment.

A non-profit member-supported association, Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Youth Villages AmeriCorps Community Garden

The Youth Villages AmeriCorps community garden began in 2007, as an AmeriCorps service learning project designed to create a garden space for learning and meditation at the Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus in Douglasville, GA. The first planting occurred in the spring of 2008, and every spring, summer and fall, AmeriCorps members, students, staff and teachers plant and harvest organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers.

Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Cub

The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL.  Our mission is to teach and encourage children to make healthy eating a part of their daily lives and to combat childhood obesity within the community; by encouraging families to cook from scratch and decrease food related health issues.  The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club consists of local chefs who volunteer their time to teach hands-on cooking classes to children and their guardians.  We are proud to be a part of the Lets Move! network of programs to keep kids healthy.  .

KIPP Infinity Elementary Garden Project

The second graders at KIPP Infinity Elementary are working hard to grow vegetables and mantain a healty garden throughout the school year. They are excited to learn about growing, harvesting and caring for our garden!

UDS Patriot Pride

To create an Edible Schoolyard at United Day School.

Organic Wishes

 I would like to start a revolution of organic whole food.  Not dead stay on the shelf for 20 years processed food.  

Where kids can enjoy learning what food really is.  Please help save our kids and join the revolution!

The Grenada Goat Dairy Project, Inc.

Established in 2008, we're expanding to build an interactive goat dairy at a primary school in Grenada, West Indies, the first of its kind. 

St. Nicholas School Garden

The St. Nicholas School Garden is a place for patience, responsibility, service and learning.  We are currently growing a vegetable garden, and herb garden and we are beginning a flower garden soon.  The vegetable garden will supply the salad bar for the school cafeteria.  Our garden is integrated into science and math curriculum, as well as Language Arts, making hands-on curriculum connection for kids.

St. Nicholas believes in teaching the whole child and instilling a lifelong love of learning!

 

 

Grimmway Schools Edible Schoolyards

Our mission at Grimmway Academy Edible Schoolyard is to create and sustain an organic garden and learning kitchen that is integrated into the school’s curriculum and culture. We also want to encourage children to discover and develop a healthy relationship with the food they eat. Modeled after the pioneering work of Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley and the Buena Vista Edible Schoolyard in Bakersfield, we have wholly integrated an organic garden and kitchen classroom into the culture and campus of Grimmway Academy, a charter school in the rural town of Arvin, CA.

Castlemont Elementary School

 The Castlemont Elementary School Garden & Life Lab, in the Campbell Union District, offers a 3/4-acre, organic garden space, including 34 raised vegetable beds, fruit trees, shrubs, and ornamentals.  We are in a transition period, busily landscaping and beautifying all areas of the garden. while endeavoring to create enticing curricula, nutritional connections, and--we hope--a "no child left inside" campus.

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