Middle School

Community Garden Network School Garden Committee

VISION of the CGN School Garden Committee:

Every school in Athens will have a vegetable garden accessible to enhance instruction that engages students, staff, families and the community.

MISSION of the CGN School Garden Committee:

To serve the students and educators of Athens-Clarke County by maintaining a central database of school gardens projects
To connect local schools with the community resources to build and maintain gardens sites as outdoor classrooms
 

Driftwood Middle School Environmental Wellness Garden

At Driftwood Middle School Academy of Health and Wellness, we are committed to teaching students how to lead healthier lives.  Our Environmental Wellness elective class teaches students how we afffect the health of the environment and how the environment affects our health.  We have six beds of vegetables and eighteen stacks of hydroponics.  We grow radishes, green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, strawberries, collard greens, black eyed peas, cucumbers, and carrots.  Our elective classes rotate every nine weeks, so by the end of the school year, almost 600 children will be more knowledgeable

Green Bronx Machine

Green Bronx Machine was born of the belief that we are all AMER-I-CANS! Together, we can grow, re-use resource and recycle our way into new and healthy ways of living; complete with self sustaining local economic engines. Inclusively and collectively, each and every member of our society offers a unique perspective with unlimited potential. Together, we can move those who are "apart from" society to become "part of" the driving force behind new solutions benefiting all of us.

Milford Mulberry Elementary Edible Garden

We started our Edible Garden last year at our school and it's become very popular, we have plans on adding more gardens the May!!!

Hiland Hall Garden

 Hiland Hall Garden is a beautiful historic garden located in the village of North Bennington, Vermont. The garden and grapery serve as an outdoor classroom for gardening, art and healthy eating for local schools. 

 

FOOD 4 U LUNCH

Food 4 U in the Elementary and Aspen Middle Schools ensures that all students have access to delicious, healthy, seasonal meals in order to grow their bodies, minds and future.  All meals are made from locally grown, sustainable ingredients to the greatest extent possible.  

We also want students to understand the relationship between food, health, nutrition, cultures, environment, and business; the relationship children have with food will evolve into a circle benefiting not just themselves, but society as a whole.

Thomas Starr King Environmental Studies Magnet

The TS King Environmental Studies Magnet provides opportunities for students to participate in a rigorous, interdisciplinary, project-based curriculum in which environmental literacy is integrated into all subject areas. Students participate in specialized electives and partnership activities with community-based environmental organizations.

AGAPE 24-hour Child Development Centers

AGAPE 24-hr CDC is partnering with Project Sweetie Pie and other community gardening programs to help strengthen family/community educational, wealth, and wellness goals.  We expect to see changes in the relationhip to food consuming and food growing/producing, leading to making better/smarter choices in food selection while increasing family/student health and wealth attainment.  Our centers are located in one of the largest urban areas in Minnesota.  We face health, education, and wealth disparities that can be addressed through our project's practical approach.  Our engagement objective 

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