Middle School

Green Animals Edible Schoolyard

Green Animals Topiary Gardens is the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. It is among the exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes protected, preserved and presented by the non-profit organization, The Preservation Society of Newport County. Green Animals remains as a rare example of a self-sufficient estate combining formal topiaries, vegetable and fruit gardens, and a Victorian house overlooking Narragansett Bay in Portsmouth, RI. 

The HAPPY Organization Inc

At the HAPPY Org., we believe in our mission and take our values seriously. They serve as a basis for everything we do and define our organizations’ culture – a culture characterized by an extraordinary sense of purpose and youth leadership.

Our Work

The HAPPY Organization inspires generations of healthy, active, positive, purposeful youth by giving them direct and positive experiences with healthy food, nutrition education, fun physical activities, and social and emotional activities.

Our Mission

Promise of Peace Community Gardens

The Promise of Peace, (P.O.P.), Gardens was established in 2009 as an effort to bring diverse groups of people together on common ground while connecting to nature and learning to grow REAL food and then to celebrate the food as we shared the harvest. The mission of P.O.P. is to create equal access to nutritious food for all children and their families. We transform vacant places into thriving growing spaces where our programming changes lives one seed at a time.

Garden of Hope

The Garden of Hope  is a side project of the School of Hope located in Jocotenango, Guatemala. The School of Hope is run by the Education for the Children Foundation, an international NGO that provides a quality eduacation and variety of wrap-around services for over 500 underprivildged children in the community of Jocotenango (more information http://www.eftc.org.uk/).  Children at the School of Hope come from a variety of compromised and underpriviledged backgrounds.

Moberly Middle School Garden

This is Moberly's first foray into gardening. Many of our student (59%) are free/reduced students and received weekend buddy backpacks to take home. This garden will start with 5 4X4 raised beds which will grow cool weather vegetables and herbs to be used in our Family and Consumer Sciences class and at lunch. We have purchased a dehydrator to prolong the life of the herbs. We have an approximate 70 percent white, 10 percent Asian and Hisplanic and 20 percent African population grades 6-8. We have not created a mission statement yet.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  We believe hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do two things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food.

Local Urban Gardeners

Our mission is: To create a garden bassed community center that can serve as a place of learning, a place to grow nutritious food, to promote sustainable gardening and inspire community improvement. 

We are working to develop a community garden and learning lab at Natividad Creek Park in Salinas,CA. It has been an ongoing process since 2013. This year looks promising and if all goes well we should be able to break ground in early spring 2016!

SPEC School Gardens Program

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

 

Belle Chasse Academy

The mission of the Belle Chasse Academy Victory Garden is to provide students and their families with life skills, health literacy, and economic insight through the integration of the garden and kitchen classroom experience into our daily school curriculum and the local economy.  This will be accomplished through a hands-on holistic approach that immerses students in gardening, making healthy food choices, improving our environment, and becoming a community with a smaller carbon footprint and larger ecological “hand-print.”

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