Middle School

City Beets

City Beets is part of the Five Rivers MetroParks community gardening program. The program is 8 weeks long and open to teens ages 12-15. Teens learn about food systems, how to grow fresh foods, and how to prepare the foods they grow. The teens also sell the produce at our local farmers market. Please check us out on the Five Rivers MetroParks website. Happy Gardening!

D11 Good Food Project

The D11 Good Food Project brings healthy, fresh, sustainable food to 24,000 students daily across 65 serving locations through the Colorado Springs School District 11 Food & Nutrition Services department.  Last year, $750,000 was put back into the local community through purchases of grass-finished beef, milk, fresh produce, and yes, coffee for our catering department.

The Galileo Garden Project produced 1,000 lbs. of fresh produce for the D11 Good Food Project in the five beds outdoors plus garden beds in our 42' geodesic dome greenhouse between January and September 2012.

Elbert County Middle School

Fall, winter, and spring garden, a few raised beds, apple trees, muscadines, and blueberry bushes.  Students research, plan, plant and harvest with produce going to families in need of fresh foods.

Maine School Garden Network

The Maine School Garden Network is a volunteer organization whose mission is to promote and facilitate educational gardens for Maine youth, grades pre-K through high school.  We meet monthly in Brunswick, Maine.  We have a website with resources for educational gardeners and a Maine school garden directory.  We hold professional development conferences for educators and engage in other activities to help get school gardens started and to publicize their benefits.

Tucson Village Farm

Tucson Village Farm (TVF) is a working urban farm by and for the youth of Tucson. TVF is a seed-to-table program designed to reconnect young people to a healthy food system, teach them how to grow and prepare fresh food and empower them to make healthy life choices. We do this through a variety of dynamic, hands-on programs targeting all age groups:
Growing Forward: K-5 agriculture and nutrition education field trip
Digging Deeper: Grades 6-12 agriculture, nutrition education and food preparation
Farm Camp: Farm immersion for youth ages 7-11

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Henderson College

The aim of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is to introduce pleasurable food education into as many Australian primary schools as possible.  
Our Program emphasises the flavours as well as the health benefits of fresh, seasonal food.
Dishes cooked reflect the vegetables, herbs and fruits grown, season-by-season, by the children in their organic gardens.
Our Kitchen Specialist instructors emphasise balance and moderation, and endorse the concept of preparing fruit-based desserts ‘sometimes' only.

Slow Food International

 Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment.

A non-profit member-supported association, Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Salt Marsh Soldiers

The Salt Marsh Soldiers are an environmental group who have raised beds filled with organic dirt and organic veggies.  Our produce is eaten by students and donated to Second Harvest. We work in partnership with many local experts such as Betty Ann Lewis with Sapelo Farms, James Holland our former Altamaha Riverkeeper, and Jeannie Lewis of Department of Natural Resources to name a few.

Healthytactics

 LLC designed to teach healthy eating using seasonal, sustainable food.

 

Youth Villages AmeriCorps Community Garden

The Youth Villages AmeriCorps community garden began in 2007, as an AmeriCorps service learning project designed to create a garden space for learning and meditation at the Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus in Douglasville, GA. The first planting occurred in the spring of 2008, and every spring, summer and fall, AmeriCorps members, students, staff and teachers plant and harvest organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers.

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