Middle School

Green Thumbs Growing Kids

Green Thumbs Growing Kids serves 3,000 children, youth and families every year in hands-on experiential programs in four school food gardens, and also greenhouse, summertime and after-school programs. We have a youth empowerment program and hire students for the summer, resulting in deeper community engagement in the school gardens, which function as a food security measure in the low-income communities where our programs are located.

Farm-Based Education Network

The Farm-Based Education Network is an international nonprofit community established to support and strengthen the work of farm-based educators and administrators who contribute to the vitality of working agricultural landscapes and local food systems, human and community health, and education of current and future generations.

Branciforte Middle School Life Lab

We are a community of learners who get outside to grow fantastic crops and flowers in the warm climate of the  Banana Belt area of Santa Cruz, California.   Our Middle School garden is in its second year of production.   We involve our 6th grade core classes, our art, cooking and science classes in hands on learning weekly.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is an education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.  We offer daily field trips for school children (pre-K - 6th grade), throughout the academic year, as well as summer camps for youth ages 4-17, summer "Stewards-in-Training" opportunities for teens, and college and post-college internships and apprenticeships, based either in our education department or at our 7-acre Market Garden. 

Edible Garden Patches ~Growing Green Program

The program inspires and educates our community at all levels to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and conserve wildlife habitat.

Gorman Heritage Farm

Gorman Heritage Farm is a 122-acre working farm and outdoor education center, which invites its visitors to explore and learn the history, methods and values of a working family farm in a natural setting. We are located on Reading Road in Evendale, Ohio. The Farm is one-half mile south of Glendale-Milford Road.

RVIS School Garden Project

At Riffa Views International School, the school garden is incorporated into the daily school curriculum via a garden coordinator.  Participation in the garden is voluntary and many teachers are eager to have their classes involved.  All the fruits,vegetables, herbs and flowers in the garden came from a seed that a child in the school planted.  Our orchard is supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, who donate their experitise in grafting, air-layering, and practical advice.  The school's compost pit is fueled by the vegetable and fruit waste created in the school's cafeteria and from child

The Wisdom Garden

 The Wisdom Garden supports elementary, middle and high school, students, as well as after school, pre-school, Saturday and summer camp participants through agriculture based programs. Our 5,000 square foot Wisdom Garden is located at a public school, Spann Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi.It was implemented as a teaching garden to help promote healthy eating, nutrition and agriculture education at this Title I school where 88% of the students receive free and reduced lunch.

Harvest Lots

We are transforming an unattractive vacant lot into a productive garden.  We will host class field trips to show children what we have done, about healthy food and contributing to their community.  We donate the food grown to local crisis centers and food banks.  Our long term goal is to tranform other vacant lots and eventually create an organization to help other communities transform their vacant lots into gardens!

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