Lower Elementary

Greenock Elementary School Garden

Chris Estadt and Gail Fleckenstein, teachers at Greenock Elementary School, started the garden in 2012 with funds provided by the Parent Teacher Organization. All teachers throughout the school year along with a summer program teach classes. Our school, which houses kindergarten through second grade, benefits from the garden by aligning common core standards and food literacy into the school environment. Students work in the garden, from planning to planting, and from harvest to table.

Apple Seeds

Apple Seeds is a non-profit whose mission is to get students excited about fruits and vegetables through garden nutrition education. 

We have a farm where we host common-core aligned field trips and farm to table events with students. 

On our farm we grow produce for our school farmer's markets, which are a cheap access point to fresh food and a great learning opportunity. Our produce is also sold to Fayetteville Public Schools' Seed to Student Program. 

Upper Canada College Learning Garden

The UCC Learning Garden began in 2005, based on an initiative among the students, staff, teachers and community.  Our mission in the garden is to integrate food, culture, curriculum and culture.  We are an urban, all-boys independent school, from sk-grade 12.  Our 35 acre campus was filled with manicured green spaces, but there were no places for children to explore and connect with earth.  While our student population is affluent, conversations about food revealed that most boys only saw food coming from groceries stores.

Level Grove Elementary School Garden

Level Grove's school garden was built in the fall of 2015 with help from Northeast Georgia Farm to School. Level Grove's Farm to School team has taught multiple standards-based, garden-themed lessons across grade levels and disciplines, and has expanded their garden area to include vermicomposting, a compost tumbler (for a limited number of cafeteria scraps), and a weather station.

Cornelia Explorers Garden

Cornelia Elementary established a school garden in fall of 2015 with the help of Northeast Georgia Farm to School and Farm Bureau of Habersham County. The fifth grade team at Cornelia initiated and facilitated the construction of the garden, but the school hopes all teachers and grade levels will be able utilize the garden space as it grows.

Mollen Foundation-Garfield's Garden on the Corner

The Mollen Foundation, a 501 C(3) non-profit organization since 2008, is dedicated to educating and empowering schools and communities to transform their lives by adopting healthy habits to achieve life-long benefits. The Mollen Foundation offers a comprehensive approach to healthy living through food education, physical activity, leadership and resiliency skills. Our Farm to Table collaboration began in 2012 as a project with a passionate group of high school students, called Newtrition, after a protest in the cafeteria to bring healthy food to their campus.

Sumner Elementary

FoodCorps Programming has been established in Sumner Elementary for two years.Through FoodCorps Service Member facilitation, students from all grades are encouraged to connect with nature in their a courtyard garden. In the winter months, nutrition education is brought to their classrooms.  Sumner Elementary also participates in the USDA's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program which gives every student in the school an opportunity to eat fresh food two-three times a week.

Savannah Children's Museum

In 2012 Coastal Heritage Society, a 501(c)3 non-profit, established the Savannah Children's Museum.  Among over a dozen hands-on exhibits, Savannah Children's Museum offers a sensory garden exhibit called Frogtown Garden, which is used to provide educational programs centered around nutrition and garden education to children and their families.  Recognizing the need to address child wellness and nutrition in Chatham County, the position of Nutrition and Garden Coordinator was created to implement health and nutrition initiatives into the museum's daily programming.

Meadowbrook Waldorf School

Meadowbrook Waldorf School offers Waldorf Education for children in prekindergarten through Grade 8, with additional programs for younger children and their caregivers. Waldorf Education was founded in 1919 and is distinguished by its unique, interdisciplinary approach. MWS has been offering this rigorous academic curriculum, infused with rich artistic activities and engaging practical experiences, to students in Rhode Island and Southeastern Connecticut since 1979.

Green School

Boca Raton Christian School maintains several gardens on campus.  Teachers and students are encouraged to grow food and enjoy organic vegetables.  

Composting is used on campus with two worm chimneys built into our gardens.  

We also have a butterfly garden attracting six different species.  Students learn about the life cycle of the butterfly through first hand experience . ( Egg, larva, pupa, adult)

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