Middle School

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.”

Grow Your Own!

Grow Your Own! (GYO!) is The Ecology Center's community-building initiative dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food ecosystem and community. GYO! supports a growing network of over two dozen school gardens and their leaders with mentorship, trainings, curriculum, design support and resources to help create sustainable gardens and programing that are beautiful, educational, and functional, integrating essential elements of holistic ecological design. 

pleasantville edible school gardens

Pleasantville gardens serve the elementary, middle and high school. Students grow, harvest and eat the crops. Healthy eating and good nutrition is taught. 

Growing Oshkosh's School Garden Program

Growing Oshkosh's mission is to raise awareness and educate citizens about the numerous benefits of fresh, healthy, local and fair food (and food production) . We are working with the schools in the Winnebago County to bring edible gardens to all schools, beginning with the K-5 schools. GO helps design and build the initial raised garden beds, one for each grade K-5 for a total of six beds. At schools where the elementary and middle exist in the same building, the number of beds can be extended to incorporate the middle school grades levels.

Bridges Charter School

We are a K-8 single-site charter school located in Thousand Oaks, California. Our charter is based on Whole Child education with an emphasis on healthy eating and sustainability. We have dedicated garden specialists and every classroom gets their own garden bed which they work on with the specialist.

O'Maley Innovation Middle School

6th grade students plant, grow, and harvest popcorn and learn about soil, garden ecosystems, and sustainable agriculture in partnership with the 6th grade science program.

Center City Public Charter School

The school garden was funded and built through a partnership with The Washington Youth Garden in Northeast DC.

Kamaile Academy School Garden

The garden is a mandatory class from grades K-6. After 6th grade some High School students do participate as an extracurricular on Wednesdays.

FoodCorps Lake County

Students assist with garden maintenance while tasting foods grown in the garden. K-3 Students currently spend an hour in the garden each month, while 4th-7th graders spend 90 minutes in the garden per month.

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