Lower Elementary

Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard & Community Garden

 The Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard provides students on the Stonehurst Campus with opportunities to explore the natural world using scientific inquiry and to connect academics with knowledge about nurturing the land, growing healthy food, and supporting where they can explore the science of soil, the food cycle, and their place in the web of life.

Wonderland Avenue Elementary 'From The Ground Up'

From The Ground Up was started about a year ago and serves as an edible garden where kids from all grades come out the garden and learn about sustainability by doing hands-on activities. There is also a nutrition compondent of the program where a nutrition educator volunteer gives nutrition lessons in the classroom to discuss various topics like why eating a rainbow is so important, why breakfast is so important, discussing MyPlate, to name a few.

Alamo School Teaching Garden

 Through a grant we applied for last year provided by Alliance for a Healthier Generation, we are in the planning stages of a terraced Teaching Garden at the elementary school. 

We have worked closely with our school district facilities dept. to enlist their services to repair the existing irrigation system, as well as remove all existing vegetation, lay weed retardant and bark prior to the beginning of construction and planting.

FATT Food at the Table

We are a group of elementary age students in Upstate New York, who after seeing the movie FOOD Inc. are looking into ways of helping the less fortunate in our community have access to good healthy food.
Our group FATT ( Food at the Table) hopes to answer the needs of our community, We have developed a plan to help feed the needy of Victor with fresh healthy produce.

How will this be done?

1. Encourage people to plant vegetable gardens

Cale School Garden

 Flowers, fruit and vegetables grown by the students at Paul H. Cale Elementary School.

Purple Asparagus

 Purple Asparagus is a Chicago based non-profit that educates children, families and the community about eating that's good for the body and the planet.

The San Francisco School

The San Francisco School is an educational community that both teaches our children with the future in mind and models all that we hope our children as adults will strive to create in society.

Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve

A pristine wooded canyon is protected in this 290-acre parkland near Merritt College in Oakland.

The park includes a self-guided trail focusing on the local Indian uses of plants. A brochure is available at the trailhead.

A teachers' trail guide is available online: http://www.ebparks.org/parks/leona#guide and provides additional context, history and tips for educators.

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