Lower Elementary

High Point Academy

Garden Leader: Stacey May -- may.stacey@gmail.com

 

High Point Academy (previously The Academy at High Point) is a charter school in the Green Valley Ranch area of Aurora. We serve about 400 students in preschool through 8th grade. Our school has a wellness focus that includes weekly wellness class for all students, staff wellness initiatives, and healthy snack requirements, among other programs.

Greenspace with Grace

 The Orion School's Greenspace with Grace Program is an outdoor education effort to establish a completely sustainable, organic garden from which our students will learn the value of hard work, the benefits of healthy eating, and the importance of giving back to the community. The outdoor education curriculum includes learning about organic gardening, raising chickens, vermiposting (composting with worms) and environmental sustainability.

Powell GT Elementary Community Courtyard Gardens

The Powell GT Magnet gardens and outdoor classrooms are educational spaces and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education. We have partnered with Sixth Sun (www.sixthsun.co) and NCSU landscape design department to design and build gardens and outdoor classrooms at our elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Eventually our outdoor courtyard space will also have a rain garden, pollinator gardens and an outdoor stage for theatrical productions and concerts.

Acre Gourmet

 Acre Gourmet works with local purveyors to cook healthy, sustainable food on-site at schools in the Bay Area. We design and manage distinctive on-site lunch programs with the goal of integrating the school community and delicious, heathy food. In all of our kitchens we use the freshest, least processed ingredients available and whenever possible use organic products that are naturally low in sugar and saturated fats. Our menus are diverse, balanced and exceed USDA guidelines for nutrition.

Center Montessori School Garden

Center Montessori has had a school garden cultivated organically for almost 20 years. Currently we have 8 raised beds and numerous earth boxes and container garden boxes throughout the school. Our growing season is from October to June so we have ample time to grow seedlings in our greenhouse, plant our Fall and Spring gardens, and harvest organic vegetables. Students prepare food at different times as vegetables mature. We make things like tomato salsa, brocolli egg scramble, cabbage slaw, mixed green salad, herbed citrus vinaigrette, and much more.

The Dawes School Garden of Eatin'

The Dawes School Garden of Eatin' project focuses on educating children about healthy food choices. Through growing and harvesting vegetables themselves, and then  coming together for tastings, our students learn where food comes from and to appreciate the joys of fresh produce.  They learn that how we grow our food has a profound effect on the environment and on their personal health.  They learn that good nutrition means including vegetables in their diet.

Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts

 We are the first Elementary Charter School in the State of Virginia!  Our integrated curriculum has a large focus on our outdoor classroom and school gardens (orchard, vegetable garden, butterfly/history bayscape, rain garden and forest woodland.)  We are currently growing food to supplement our school lunch program (we do not accept federal funds therefore are able to serve more nutritious options.)  We have a wonderful partner in our community who ran a successful CSA that has installed grow boxes on our grounds, with plans for a greenhouse classroom!

Miles Davis Magnet Academy Learning Garden

The Miles Davis Magnet Academy Learning Garden includes raised vegetable beds, butterfly and rain gardens and a native plants area. The Learning Garden provides opportunities for student learning about science and engineering, particularly in the areas of botany, urban agriculture and environmental science.

 

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Common Threads - Los Angeles

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

Common Threads - Washington D.C.

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

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