Lower Elementary

Montlake Elementary School

The mission of the Montlake Elementary School Greenhouse Education Program is to provide our 267 K-5 students with a garden-based education that ignites a life-long interest in the natural world, and to serve as an alternative learning environment for students who struggle with the instructional and social demands of mainstream schooling.

Phillippi Shores Elementary School Garden

Phillippi Shores School Garden contains 40 raised beds and is maintained primarily by Chef Paul Mattison. He is a proud sponsor of the Chefs Move to School Program and a proud father whose daughter attends Phillippi Shores.  The program includes a variety of academic components and is partnered with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center and sponsored by Mattison's Restaurants and Catering.

Al Salam Day School Edible Garden

•To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality. 

The Association of Copenhagen School Gardens

School gardens have existed in Denmark since 1903, but have lived a quiet life since their heyday in the 1950s. Now the gardens are going through another major resurgence and demand. A great interest in teaching children about nature and the origin of food has put school gardens on the Copenhagen schools’ timetables again.

Brookside Defenders of the Earth Farm Club

Our program started two years ago with a dream to have fresh veggies and fruits for our students K-5th grade to eat.   I found the food in the cafeteria to be less than healthy and saw students tossing tray after tray of food away.  Then, after speaking with students, we decided to grow our own food and SURPRISE if they grow it--they will eat it!!!  Students are eating broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, cucumbers and lots of salads with kale and spinach---foods they never would even try before.   We have a very supportive principal at our school who encourages us to grow and, as fun

Silicon Valley HealthCorps

In an innovative partnership, The Health Trust has joined together with AmeriCorps and 10 local organizations to form the Silicon Valley HealthCorps. The goal of this collaboration is to improve community health by providing ongoing garden-based nutrition education to youth in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. The HealthCorps will also increase the availability and affordability of locally grown produce through the development of new community and school gardens, low-cost farm stands, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs.

Edible Garden Project - Fed Up

We’re bringing students from kindergarten to grade 7 out of the classroom and into the garden to learn the cycles of food production from seed to soil. Our students grow food, harvest it, prepare it, and enjoy it – they’re “Fed Up” and into previously out of reach world of nutritious fresh food.

The Gahanna Learning Gardens at Royal Manor

The Gahanna Learning Gardens at Royal Manor is part of a network of community gardens. This location will feature native plants, rain barrels and sustainable gardening practices. Garden will be installed Fall of 2014

Rothenberg Rooftop School Garden

The Rothenberg Rooftop School Garden seeks to provide and sustain unique learning opportunities for the students of Rothenberg Preparatory Academy through hands-on garden-based lessons; and to engage community members in rooftop activities through the school's function as a Community Learning Center.

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