Middle School

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.

Central Middle School

The goal of our school garden is to educate students about healthy food choices and sustainable food sources.Students will benefit from this garden by learning how to grow their own food, and to make healthy food choices. Produce from our garden will subsidize our backpack program, which supports students by sending home enough food to feed each participating student' for the weekend, ensuring that the students have vital nourishment. This is vital for a number of students. However, many students are not being served because we do not have the resources.

Stone Bridge School

To connect our children with the world of nature and increase conscientiousness of ecology is a main goal of our garden. Our hope is that our school gardens gives young people an opportunity to better understand their relationship with nature thus creating a dynamic environment for learning core subjects while promoting cooperation through group activities. The children will be taught to conserve natural resources and preserve the environment. A garden often encourages self-confidence and a sense of responsibility and belonging to one's community.

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