Middle School

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.

Tri Valley School Community Food Bank Garden

Comprehensive K-12 school in within NYC watershed in Catskill Mountains has a 1600sf raised bed organic garden. Classes also grown greens and other edibles in 4000sf greenhouse.  Currently we are in the process of creating a trellised 50 dwarf apple tree orchard. We compost materials from school cafeteria generating over 150 lbs. of biomass per day.   

La Semilla Food Center Edible Education

La Semilla's Edible Education Program works with over 30 schools throughout the Paso del Norte Region of Southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Edible Education partners with local schools to make healthy eating and experiences growing, cooking, and enjoying real food a part of everyday classroom learning while equipping students with the knowledge and skills they need to develop lifelong healthy habits.

Chef-K

Chef-K® provides health education for kids.  Our general approach is to help people build on what they know about food with the idea that they will feel more inspired and confident in their menu choices.  Specifically our youth program/courses are geared to provide children and teens with lessons about nutrition, food safety, cooking techniques.  Our Chef-K trainers can come to you or organizations can purchase Instructor's Guides and participant handouts and can run with it.  Our train-the-trainer program/courses include instructor guide, tracking reports, student material with seasonal re

Delay School Gardens

Delay Middle School Gardens, a sustainable garden which will serve the school as a tool for the core curriculum and cross curricular studies. 

Rudd 'Roots Parents

Rudd 'Roots Parents supports the grassroots efforts of parent advocates by offering information they can use to take action. Whether you are a seasoned advocate or just getting started, Rudd 'Roots Parents provides parents with suggestions for building community, garnering support of key stakeholders, gathering information, and proposing policy changes to make school food healthy. Rudd 'Roots Parents connects parent advocates to each other and the Yale Rudd Center Food Policy & Obesity.

Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity is a non-profit research and public policy organization devoted to improving the world’s diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma. The Rudd Center is dedicated to assessing and disseminating information about effective community and school interventions that address nutrition and obesity.

Chicago Community Garden Project

CHICAGO COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT

The Roseland Community Development Corporation and Healthcare Consortium of Illinois is collaborating and partnering with Non Profit Organizations, Urban Farms & Gardens, Educational Institutions, Chicago Park District, and the City of Chicago to implement and develop the Chicago Community Garden Project.

EARTH (Education And Resiliency Through Horticulture) Program

 The EARTH Program at Gifft Hill School(GHS) is a service learning horticulture program developed and implemented by the Department of Horticulture at Iowa State University.  The goal of the program is to design, instll and manage attractive landscapes for sustainable food prodution.  We integrate gardening education into the middle school curriculum and offer a high school elective.  Eventually, we will provide healthy, localy grown food for the lunch room and culinary labs.  The expanding school garden serves as a model of sustainable living to the students, the school and the wider St.

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