Middle School

Waconia Edible Classroom

The Waconia Edible Classroom is located on farmland adjacent to Clearwater Middle School.  The garden site includes a 1/2 acre vegetable garden, 65 fruit trees, and offers a dozen community plots for rent.  The Edible Classroom is an outdoor learning space that gives students the opportunity to learn the seed-to-table process through hands on learning.

How does our garden grow?
Students start seeds indoors in the spring and transplant to the garden before school is out for the summer.  During summer months Kids Co participants and local volunteers tend to the garden.

Food for Life Program at Holden Christian Academy

Holden Christian Academy
Food for Life

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and finish his work.” John 4:34

Garden Story

GARDEN STORY @ Storycorp is a project recording Middle School Students' fav Garden Story, whether family, community or Edible Schoolyard.  A digital scrapbook.  Everyone has a favorite memory of digging in the garden.

Why Middle School? Because kids change so much in High School.  Middle School is a magical time to harvest and preserve. Sunshine in a bottle.

Cheers, Hunter Green

Farm to School at Davis Stuart

We are a residential juvenile facility with the desire to teach nutritious food choices, healthy/gourmet food preparation and hands-on planting/picking and preserving of our school greenhouse and garden.  We also teach and practice entrepreneurship lessons, including growing, preparing and selling our own hot pepper jelly, salsa and pine wreaths.  This is our first year to have a class entitled Farm to School and we are learning and working hard to create a viable program that will be helpful and useful to students in their future endeavors. 

San Domenico School Garden of Hope

 The Garden of Hope is a sacred place and learning center for San Domenico students and faculty, but has expanded to become a model for the greater community. Our sustainability program has been featured in articles in the Marin Independent Journal, Marin Magazine, Terra Magazine, Red Orbit, More Marin, and other magazines such as Fast Forward. It is known as a place to showcase how other school gardens, community organizations, and individuals can learn how to live more sustainably with the earth.

Annie's Grants for Gardens

 

 Annie's Homegrown: Growing Gardens of Goodness

Project EAT

Project EAT ( Educate, Act, Thrive.) serves 25,000 students directly. Initiated ten years ago at two schools in the Hayward Unified School District, Project EAT now serves 50 schools in five school districts with a yearly budget over $4 million dollars. Currently, the award winning, nationally recognized Project EAT serves Hayward, Livermore, San Leandro, and San Lorenzo school districts with primary funding from the Network for a Healthy California, funded by the California Department of Public Health.

Edible Sac High

The mission of Edible Sac High is to provide students with a transformational experience by giving them the tools they will need to assume ownership for the well-being of themselves and the student body at large. It will provide these tools through an integrated curriculum across three main activities: a school garden, a kitchen classroom, and a student-run cafeteria. A blueprint for this program will be shared with high schools across both the state of California and the nation. 

Jamie Oliver Food Foundation

We want to change the way people eat by educating every child about food, empowering families by arming them with the skills and knowledge to cook again, and inspiring everyone to stand up for their rights to better food; which in turn will fight the epidemic of diet-related diseases.

Henry C. Lea "Secret Garden"

The Henry C. Lea School has had a garden since 1999.  The University of Pennsylvania's Judith Rodin was an early supporter.  UC Green under the leadership of Sue MacQueen and with the support of Joe Shapiro, Johannah Fine, Michael Dillen, has been a source of expertise and guidence.  Dr.

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