Lower Elementary

Growing Green Kids

GROWING GREEN KIDS  An enrichment program providing garden-enhanced nutrition education in a fun and active learning environment! Kids connect with nature and food as both gardeners and cooks in these action-oriented, child-centered classes and workshops. 

 

Green Scene Chicago

With Green Scene Chicago programming I teach students how to plant and tend vegetable beds that, upon fruition, host two kinds of production: crops and theater. I recruit youth and elders to grow food and unearth their artistic impulses through writing, story telling, theater, music and dance. While exploring healthy earth practices, healthy eating, and healthy self-expression in the garden, these teams create performances to share with their community.

LILA School Garden

Our school garden is part of a community garden located on school property. It is an in-ground vegetable garden with an automatic watering system. It measures 38X14 square feet and is divided by 4 beds. The garden has been available for use for a long time, but it has never been sustained. At the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, we started managing it differently. One administrator (Nadjiba Medjaoui) was assigned to manage the garden, and she promptly applied for the Whole Kids Foundation Grant. Parents donated time, material and labor to launch the garden!

The Joyful12 School Project

Families that cook at home are healthier but not every family has the knowledge or skills to cook simple, healthy meals their family will enjoy.

Our project aims to improve the health of an entire school community in Novato, California - children, parents, teachers and their families - by teaching basic cooking skills focused on vegetables and fruits first. 

We will teach an entire elementary school to cook and eat more vegetables together with:

Sprouts Children's Garden Program

The Sprouts Children's Gardening program is an intiative of the London Community Resource Centre. The progam teaches children and families about growing and preapring healthy, organic food. We promote urban bio-diversity, nature literacy, food literacy, and practical gardening and cooking skills. Our programs are hands-on, engaging, and fun and include garden exploration and maintenance, nature-related crafts, stories, and activities, and food harvesting and preparation. 

The Paideia School Farms and Gardens

The Paideia School is located in mid-town Atlanta, in the Druid Hills neighborhood.

Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS

Mundo Verde is a sustainable and bilingual public charter school serving PreK3-5th grade. All students receive a Cooking and Gardening class once a week for an hour. Students learn how to support their own wellness, are encouraged to try new fruits and vegetables, and enjoy developing a closer relationship to their food by growing it in the garden!

Alpine Edible Schoolyards

Alpine Edible Schoolyards (AES) is the hub of urban farm and school garden installation, maintenance, and education in the Bow Valley. A liaison, resource centre, connector and facilitator, AES works with school boards, administrators, teachers, students, small businesses, municipalities, environmental groups and community members to ensure full, safe, utilization and continued success of fertile learning grounds. 

Yara Community Gardens

Yara Community Gardens provides space for members of the community, organizations and schools to rent plots for a minimal fee to grow their own produce to support their families and programs.  We have over 140 plots across 3 garden areas that are available to rent.  Each year at least one larger plot is designated as a Community Plot where vegetables are grown to support our vulnerable population.  The produce from here is donated to local service organizations and funds raised from our Charity Markets support these organizations as well.

Evergreen Community Charter School, Community and Student Supported Agriculture Project

Evergreen Community Charter School is a K-8 Expeditionary Learning public charter in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Evergreen's Community and Student Supported Agriculture Project is an effort to transform our curriculum and community by growing more food, feeding more people, and enjoying the flavors and community of our vibrant local foods economy.

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