Middle School

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We are located in Vallejo Ca. and have been gardening since 2012. We are fledgling group but are growing day by day.

We are growing winter vegetables at this time but maintain a summer program as well.

Our charter school is comprised of middle school through high school.

Our main garden is located on the middle school campus but are in the middle of installing a high school garden on the high school side.

Our hope is that we can link up with other programs thoughout our town, state and eventually the nation.

Oregon Food Bank and Five Oaks Middle School Garden

Oregon Food Bank and Five Oaks Middle School established a new gardening program in Washington County in 2010, within 3 blocks of OFB’s distribution center site. The Westside Learning Garden is housed on the grounds of Five Oaks Middle School, where the Rachel Carson Environmental Middle School is located. Each school year, 180 Rachel Carson student volunteers share their energy and enthusiasm to tend the garden while learning about gardening and hunger in a hands‐on environment.

The Victory Garden at Kent County Middle School

The Victory Garden at Kent County Middle School was founded in 2010 when once oth the teachers realized that a number of his students were recipients of the very food drive that they were participating in. The garden produces about 1000 lbs of food annually. The program has become an official part of the 7th grade curriculum.

The KCMS Victory Garden has four goals:

FoodCorps Hawaii

The Kohala Center is an independent, not-for-profit, community-based center for research, conservation, and education. By focusing on the needs of island residents and the research interests of our university and agency partners, three core areas of work have emerged: energy self-reliance, food self-reliance, and ecosystem health. Through these partnerships and by recognizing that we work in a model environment, we help communities on the island, in the Pacific, and around the world thrive—ecologically, economically, culturally, and socially.

Wildcat Blooms

 Wildcat Blooms currenly has about 1/4 acre under cultivation. Students have grown a variety of vegetables and fruit, including: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, carrots, spinach onions, watermelon, strawberries, black-eyed peas, pumpkins, flowers and herbs. We recently planted 8 fruit trees and ten grapevines.

FoodCorps California

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy.

Serving alongside educators and community leaders, FoodCorps members partner with schools to put in place a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids, creating a nourishing environment for all students. Our service members provide:

The Food School at Common Ground Urban Farm

 The Food School is a start up non-profit organization in Ft. Collins, CO that offers unique agricultural experiences combined with on- and off-site food education for children and adults. Currently, our staff visits local classrooms and delivers standards-aligned food educaiton curriculum about topics such as food equity, food security, and faces of the food chain.

Woodlands Secondary School

Our school goal is to provide an educational opportunity for a wide variety of students within our community. We are hoping to establish a large food garden and orchard at the front of the school as a way to engage those students to build school pride and increase community engagement. The garden will also serve as a sustainable food source for a population in need and will offer additional skill based learning opportunities for students at the school. We hope to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs as well as plant a variety of fruit trees to rpovide food for growing school food programs.

Wilson Middle School

We hope to create an outdoor classroom where students can engage in the planning, growing, maintaining and harvesting of a school garden. This will be a wonderful learning experience for students, creating a healthy and prosperous garden with a variety of plants that will be used to generate service learning projects for students. Moving forward, as we recruit parent volunteers our intention is a holistic one that will engage the entire family. Our goal is to also encourage healthy eating habits as well as help sustain the garden through a growers market.

Dunnellon Middle School

The goal of our school garden is threefold; to establish a garden space that can be used for teaching in multiple disciplines, teach our students how to budget and construct an aquaponics system that they can set up in a limited space, and finally, the benefits of home gardening for a healthier lifestyle.

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