Middle School

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.

The Agrarian Adventure

The Agrarian Adventure is a publicly-supported 501(c)3 nonprofit that exists due to the active participation and dedicated support of students, teachers, parents, and community members working with schools to connect students with food, health, community, and agriculture. We are a volunteer-led grassroots organization, made possible by support from the community since 2003.
Our program areas are:

The Cultivated Classroom @ Gregory-Lincoln Education Center

Gregory-Lincoln is a Fine Arts Magnet prek-8th grade school located in historic Fourth Ward, in the shadow of downtown Houston. Our school community is typical of so many American schools, blessed with talented, smart kids, and struggling with childhood obesity, as well as the looming threat of Type II diabetes. Instead of sitting idly by we decided to raise our pitchforks, plates, and pencils to change how we think and consume food.

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