Middle School

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.

Paramount School of Excellence STEAM Program

Paramount School of Excellence incorporates its edible schoolyard into the K-8 curriculum. Every class has a garden plot to maintain. As a school, this process helps children discovery a vast array of curricular connections through gardening.

Food for Thought Ojai

Mission Statement Food for Thought works with the local community to support, educate and inspire our school children and their families to make healthier food choices. Food for Thought (FFT) was organized by a group of concerned parents, educators and growers who first came together in the spring of 2002 to improve the nutritional status and food awareness of children in the Ojai Unified School District (OUSD).

Greater Richmond Fit4Kids

Greater Richmond Fit4Kids is a non-profit organization that works to improve children's health and wellness and reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity in the Richmond region through programs that promote physical activity and healthy eating. Fit4Kids currently has learning gardens at 5 school sites and 2 community sites. The goal of the learning garden program is to teach students to grow, prepare, and eat healthy food by engaging them in garden maintenance, plantings, classroom nutrition activities, and tastings througout the school year.

Head-Royce School Garden

Head-Royce Garden

Vision

For the Garden at Head-Royce School to support, enhance and achieve the all-school Mission by inspiring lifelong learning, exuberant academics, and respect for the diversity and interconnectedness of the natural environment and human society thereby, creating eco-literate citizens.

Mission

Middle School Garden at Maplewood Richmond Heights

Maplewood Richmond Heights school district has an established Seed to Table program with gardens at every grade level. The middle school garden aims to demonstrate a household-size urban farm. The backyard has raised beds for vegetable production, an herb spiral, compost facilities, rainwater catchment, and a border of perennial native plants to attract pollinators. The tiny front yard is a miniature fruit food forest, with strawberries, raspberries, bush cherries, an apple, a peach, and a pear tree.

Washburn Farm to School

 Washburn School District Farm to School Program focuses on providing garden and nutrition education to PreK-8th grade students using project based learning in our garden. Teachers use the garden to enhance Math, Science, Social Studies, Language and Arts education. The overall vision of the Washburn Elementary and Middle School garden project is to provide greater access to and educate the public about locally grown food in the area. The food produced in the garden is utilized in the school cafeteria and in classrooms.

The Computer School, MS 245

The Computer School is a highly diverse urban community hailing from many different cultures, races, religions and economic backgrounds, where teamwork, project-based learning, and connecting with our social and natural environment are at the core of our mission.

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