Lower Elementary

PROJECT MERIENDA / KENNY KUSINA

My name is Kenrick Mercado, and my sister’s name is Richel Hall. We both live in Richmond, but I work in San Francisco as a Chef, and Richel is a full-time student at Contra Costa College and a part-time Teacher Assistant at a parochial after-school program. In 2015, we established our after-school education program at San Francsico's Bessie Carmichael School campuses, the state's first bilingual Filipino public school.  Our program we created, is called Project Merienda, named after the Pilipino word for “afternoon meal.”

Wagner Ranch School Garden

~~First I will explain a little bit about us.  We have recently been given an area of around a quarter acre of land by the local school district to develop for our school site as a learning outdoor garden classroom.  Previously this land was part of a greater nature area which the district and community uses for district environmental education programs and nature-related festivals.  The area is alive with native plants, like coffeeberry,  ceanothus, teasel, willow, heritage champagne grapes and oaks which have been central to the environmental education programs, but there are several area

Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School & Kokua Hawai'i Foundation 'Aina In Schools

Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School (LEPCS) is engaging students in the garden and healthy nutritional habits while implementing the Kokua Hawaii Foundation Aina in the Schools Program(KHF).

Junior Master Gardener Grey Stone Demonstration Garden

The JMG prgram teaches children about vegetable gardening, organic gardening, environmental stewardship, native animal habitats, healthy food choices and other related topics.The goal is to connect young people to the earth and through this connectiveness establish a grounding that is often overlooked when focused on excelling solely on academics.  The JMG program also achknowledges that not all children learn in a traditional setting.  The JMG program supports experimental learning, accepts failure as a part of the learing process, uses analysis to understand why the failure occurred and c

Laurel Tree Charter School

Laurel Tree Charter School is a K-12 family-style school in Arcata, Ca. We serve a diverse range of students from different social economic and cultural backgrounds. Our mission is to create a sustainable model of education which provides all students with accessible curriculum, based on college preparatory standards, while developing life and social skills in a mixed age setting.

The Seed Community Food Hub

The Seed Community Food Project is an initiative aimed at increasing community food security in Guelph, Ontario. We are currently a project of the Guelph Community Health Centre (CHC)- with plans to establish ourselves as an independent non-profit organzation in the next three years.

Grow to Learn and Governors Island Teaching Garden

As part of GrowNYC’s Greening department, both Grow to Learn and the Governors Island Teaching Garden aim to use urban gardens as a space for exploration, experiential learning and community building. Grow to Learn is the citywide school gardens initiative for New York City. We work with public and charter schools to ensure that gardens are sustainable teaching resources in the long term, responsive to each individual community’s vision and needs, and transformative for student learning in the cafeteria, classroom, and beyond.

FRESHFARM FoodPrints Program

What is FoodPrints?

FoodPrints is FRESHFARM Market’s food education program that aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through highly engaging, hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking and eating nutritious, local foods in season.   We work in partnership with administrators and teachers to ensure that FoodPrints is a relevant, enriching program that teaches Common Core, Next Generation Science and DCPS/OSSE Health standards, and that adapts to the unique curricular goals of each school we partner with.

North School Garden

Edible community garden open to the North Elementary School Community.

https://northschoolgarden.mystrikingly.com/

Neighborhood Farmers Markets (Seattle)

The Neighborhood Farmers Markets manages 7 food-focused farmers markets in Seattle, WA. We are a nonprofit 501c3 organization with a mission to support local farms and promote local eating. 

Mission: The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance is committed to supporting and strengthening Washington's small family farm businesses by creating and operating vibrant, successful neighborhood farmers markets.

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