Middle School

Hamilton Habitat

We have a garden at our school called the Hamilton Habitat which is maintained by ourHabitat class along with parent volunteers and our urban harvest partner. The goals of our habitat class are to give students an opportunity to experience gardening, to learn about the environment, ecology, biology, and nutrition. We have also discovered that the habitat is a great place to work on useful skills like communication, cooperation, time management, problem solving, and citizenship.

The Neighborhood Academy Garden

For the past 11 years, we have broken the cycle of generational poverty through education. We do this by developing the minds, bodies and spirits of our students, ensuring that they become fully productive members of society. The Neighborhood Academy is a faith-based, college-preparatory school in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood that provides education for students in grades 8-12 from low income families in the Pittsburgh area.

Hogan Family YMCA Children's Garden

We are set to get started fundraising in March for a Kids Garden at the local YMCA.  200+ kids will get to experience digging in the dirt, playing with worms and eating the fruits & veggies of their labor.

Fusion Academy & Learning Center Edible Garden Workshop

As part of the life skills education at Fusion Academy, a Garden-to-Table workshop was initiated over the summer of 2011. The edible garden portion of this workshop gives students a basic introduction to gardening, with an emphasis on ecology and environmental science. For more advanced students, there is the potential to explore topics in plant and cell biology. The other portion of the workshop includes trips to different farmers markets and farms in Orange County, followed up with lessons in the basics of cooking.

Aspen Elementary School Magical Garden

Aspen School District - Aspen Elementary School's Magical Garden - creating a place to teach, learn, enjoy & eat!

Project Sprout

Project Sprout is a student led effort at Monument Mountain Regional High School to cultivate an organic farm on school grounds that: grows vegetables for the cafeterias of the schools in our district, is used as an educational tool by classes from preK-12th grade, and builds connections with the natural world for all of the students in our community.

DC Greens

DC Greens runs garden-based professional development workshops to help teachers maximize the educational and nutritional benefits of their school gardens.  We partner with the Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, D.C. to support school garden teachers across the District of Columbia.  

DC Greens advocates for school gardens as a fully staffed component of all public schools. 

Garden Oaks Montessori

 Garden Oaks Elementary is a magnet Montessori with Environmental Science. The Sunshine Community Garden is Garden Oaks outdoor classroom where students engage in project based learning in cultivating fruits, vegetables and flowers. The school's outdoor classroom includes many garden areas including orchards, butterfly gardens, pond and wetlands to foster future environmental stewards.

 

 

Edwin Brown Education Center

 We are a program that serves "special populations" students who are at-risk behaviorally and/or of dropping out of school.

We have created a 10,000sq. ft. organic food garden and are going into our 3rd season of production.  We are looking for ways to learn more about incorporating the project into the clasroom, building more community based support and creating long term sustainability.

Fairfield School Gardens

We are a collection of school gardens in the Fairfield Public School System.16 of our 17 schools, grades k -12, have organic school gardens of various sizes. Gardens are used for extending classroom lessons and after school clubs. We are just starting to have some of what we grow used in the school cafeterias. We fall under the Fuel for Learning Partnership, PTA Council program,of parent & teacher advocates for improved school lunch and organic school gardens.

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