Middle School

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.

Timbuktu Community Garden

The Timbuktu Community Garden aims to transform students into "food warriors."

Wang Garden

The Wang School was the first school garden we ever helped build. Going into its third year, the garden is still proving to be a place for great hands on education. Placed right behind the school where students have recess, the garden has become a normal stopping ground for everyone. 

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