Lower Elementary

Newton Community Farm

The mission of Newton Community Farm is to nurture a community that teaches and models sustainable agricultural and environmental practices on the historic Angino Farm.

We are dedicated to providing the community with an authentic farm experience that highlights  and promotes sustainable growing practices.

As a fully operational farm, we have the ideal setting for hands-on, interactive learning for all ages and skill level on site as well as offering outreach programs in the local community.

Urban Famers Association

Urban Farmers Association is a program of Helping Build Success. We help schools and communities get their gardens off the ground and growing. We supply all the materials needed to establish and grow a garden. We offer help in the establishment of curriculums that explore the themes of farming, production and distribution. If you are interested in working with us please email us your contact information and we will be glad to get you out an information packet.

New Hope Christian Academy Urban Farm

New Hope Christian Academy is a private school located in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. We have been doing small gardens since 2000. In 2013 we began to convert an acre vacant lot into an urban farm. Students participate in the planting, caring, and harvesting of the Farm produce. We have a weekly Garden Club of highly interested students, as well as many classes using the Farm for more traditional lessons.

Rocketship Mosaic School Garden

Rocketship Mosaic is a public charter school in East San Jose, CA, serving students from Kinder-5th grade. The garden was founded in the fall of 2013 with 13 raised beds where students grow, taste and take home fresh fruits and vegetables. The garden is also a classroom where students apply learning from all subject areas, and where students with all learning abilities succeed. Students reconnect with the natural world, inspiring a sense of stewardship for the school and our planet.

Old School Farm

Nestled within the heart of Bells Bend, ten minutes outside of Nashville, lies a new, unique non-profit dedicated to producing quality farm-to-table food while providing employment for individuals that have intellectual disabilities. Old School Farm was founded in 2013 on the belief that creating a sustainable farm can also produce sustainable jobs while giving back to the community at large. It is our hope that Old School Farm will become a model site where you will find individuals of all abilities working side by side.

Shaw Elementary School

Shaw Elementary seeks to utilize the courtyard of our school to share scientific learning of plant cycles, environments, wildlife patters, life cycles and multiple other research and discovery based topics with our students!

Joan Austin School Garden

We have a school garden with 8 raised bed boxes.  Through a Fiskar grant we got the garden planted and growing for this summer 2016.  Teachers will collaborate on how to use the garden beds for the coming year Sept-June 2016-17.  An urban forest is in the planning stages, and is going to be added on the same site as the garden.

Top-school program Nordio

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We trying use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Edible Schoolyard Kern County

The Edible Schoolyard Kern County is a program supported through the Grimm Family Education Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit, based in Bakersfield, California. Working with students, teachers and parents, the Foundation supports initiatives to improve education and wellness in Kern County. The mission of the Foundation is: Through our charter schools and Edible Schoolyards, we will close the achievement gap, graduating students at or above grade level in literacy and math, improve the health of students and families and create economic impact in the communities that we serve.

DC Bilingual Public Charter School

DC Bilingual PCS is a spanish-english bilingual school serving DC students in PreK-5th grade. We have a spacious outdoor classroom with an herb garden, an edible garden and cooking space, butterfly and pollinator gardens, and more. Our garden is a rich educational space that supports learning in all subject areas in addition to being an important green, growing haven for our urban students and families.

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