Middle School

Oscar Mayer Magnet School Garden Project

The Garden Project oversees a number of programs here Oscar Mayer Magnet School, a Chicago Public Elementary School in the heart of the city. We have started a lunchroom composting program, planted four award-winning gardens on school grounds (including a bio-diverse native Illinois garden in conjunction with DePaul University), we have six chickens living in a custom coop in front of the school and we just installed two beehives. Our school serves students ages 3 years old to the 8th grade and we have both the Montessori curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.

City Sprouts

We sustain communities though gardening and build a skilled workforce who will enter into jobs & careers in culinary, public health, environmental-sciences, education, and more. We grow food, feed the community, and increase the physical, emotional, and financial well being of citizens in North Omaha and the Metro Area. Young people sixteen through twenty-one years old work, learn, and practice twenty-first century skills, which make them a well rounded, experienced, and qualified employees in careers that better the health of the community.

Princeton School Gardens Cooperative

The Princeton School Gardens Cooperative is small 501c3 that works to increase food literacy in the public schools.

Mission: Fostering garden- and food-based education in the classroom, cafeteria and community.

The Kitchen Community

The Kitchen Community, a 501c3 nonprofit, was established in 2011 as the philanthropic arm of The Kitchen restaurants to connect kids to nutritious food by creating Learning Gardens in schools and community organizations across America.

Edible Classroom

 Hi We (I) am just starting out and will update as I go.  I am currently trying to get funding to start my edible classroom .

Malmo School of Nature

Malmö School of Nature trains educators in Malmö in outdoor education linked to nature areas in and around the city and how to develope and use the schoolyards, to increase children's learning, health and development. School of Nature cooperates with several schools, organizations and departments in Malmö. We are 7 employed and my main role is to improve schoolyards and the use of schoolyards all over Malmö.

Forest Grove Elementary Garden Program

 Sprouting Chefs Visionary and Founder Barb McMahon strives to connect children and the community to nature by providing cooking and gardening programs including the ever popular, After School Garden Club. It is one thing to build a school garden, it is another feat to create a sustainable thriving program that truly connects and engages the students and community members.

A Sprouting Chefs School Garden Program ideally includes:

Jen School Garden

Opened on Maryville's Des Plaines, IL campus in August 2007, the Jen School is a special education day school for male students, grades 7-12, with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Jen School serves students from Maryville's residential programs and day students from local communities.

Pingry School Kitchen Garden

 We decided to create a kitchen garden both to provide our kitchen with fresh produce and to donate to food banks in our area.  In addition, we use the kitchen garden as a teaching space and to promote our expanding programs on sustainability.

Summer Language Camp: "The World Table"

 Atlanta International School's popular Language Camps in French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, and ESL help campers develop their second language skills at all skill levels. Campers participate in immersion classes and activities such as theater and music delivered in their language of choice. Additionally sports, technology, and yoga activities are offered every week for a well-rounded camp experience.

Our three-week curriculum addresses all aspects of language: listening, speaking, writing, vocabulary, and most importantly, a lifelong interest in other cultures.

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