Lower Elementary

Explore Ecology School Garden Program

The Sage Garden Project is sponsering me this year, but I work as a Garden Educator for Explore Ecology.

Explore Ecology is an environmental education and arts non-profit located in Santa Barbara, CA.  We work with over 30,000 children a year, inspiring them to engage with the natural world, think critically and experience the value of environmental stewardship. Our programs include the Art From Scrap Creative ReUse Store and Gallery, Environmental Education, the Watershed Resource Center, School Gardens Program, and ReUseSB. 

Cape Fear Farmacy

Vision: To create and sustain a community garden for the production of food for those hungry in body and a place of beauty for those hungry in spirit. The community gardens are an avenue for sharing gardening knowledge, promoting self-sufficiency, providing healthy and productive activities for our youth and fostering a greater sense of community in Wilmington and surrounding areas. Partnership with local businesses and nonprofit organizations will ensure growth and continuity of the gardens.

Emerson Community Garden

The Emerson Community Garden was constructed in the spring of 2013. It was started with the support and passion of our late principal Dan Bergman. Parents and teachers have worked together to build a progessivley more sustainable garden science program. One goal of the program is to be able to have the garden open for exploration during rescess. We believe this is a time for free exploration and a chance to find ownership and responsibility. Another goal is to implement hands on science through the garden.

Food Garden at Commodore Sloat

Commodore Sloat Elementary School has partnered with Education Outside to create an outdoor classroom. Students come out once a week to learn about science, sustainability and healthy eating in our school garden. 

Skyline School Garden Program

Skyline Elementary is a public school which serves the children of Solana Beach.  The enrollment is currently 550 children, in grades Kindergarten to sixth grade.  Twenty-two percent of the school population is at or below the poverty line.  The goal of the school's garden program is to involve each student in the curriculum throughout each school year.  The mission is to try to reduce the increasing rate of diabetes and obesity among children.

Cleveland Elementary School

Cleveland Elemantary is in an urban setting in Oklahoma City with enrollment of 350 to 400.  The school yard garden is 2 raised beds and a large terraced area on a hill. We are growing vegetables and herbs and using the space as an outdoor classroom.

Our Global Garden

Community Magnet Charter School is located in west Los Angeles, serving approximately 450 students from all over the Los Angeles Unified School District. We had wanted an edible garden at the school for a long time, so in 2013 we built eight raised planters and started our journey to building a garden program, which we called Our Global Garden.

Grow It Green Morristown

The Urban Farm is New Jersey’s largest school garden. The farm is located at the Morris School District’s Lafayette Learning Center. Throughout the growing season, the Urban Farm serves the community by:

  • Providing educational opportunites for the 5,200 school children of the Morris School District, as well as area colleges and our local community members

  • Creating opportunities for children and adults to experience local, chemical-free food

Garden Growers Group

The Garden Growers Group is an important part of the GSB Community Garden. A Garden Grower is a member of the GSB Community that is helping the garden to grow by sharing time to help with the garden. This may include planting, weeding, and harvesting. There are also tasks that do not require getting dirty hands in the garden.  This includes sorting and saving seeds, planning summer plantings, updating our log books, and keeping the GSB Community updated about what is happening in the garden.  Garden Growers will be able to share in the harvest by sharing their time to help the garden. 

Tower Garden

We purchased six Tower Gardens (one per grade level) for our elementary school.  The gardens were placed in one classroom at each grade level and the first planting was mid-January.  Each Tower holds 28 plants so each student planted their own seed (s).  The additional spots were for the teacher to plant what they wanted.  

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