Middle School

Positively Food: Shanahan Middle School Green Project

Shanahan Middle School, in the heart of Ohio, is the setting for raised garden beds, an outdoor classroom, and a sizable greenhouse. On two separate occssions, I have planned and implemented two school-wide wellness initiatives. The focus of the wellness initiatives have been to empower students to choose real food over processed foods through garden-based learning. Each month, during a specified time, every student was engaged in identifying the ingredients in processed foods and the possible harmful health effects of artificial ingredients, colorings, and perservatives.

Slow Food Miami Garden Program

Since 2007, Slow Food MIami has developed and administered a large school garden program that impacts up to 35,000 students at over 50 elementary, middle and high schools in the Miami-Dade school district.  We give mini grants, install raised garden beds, supply financial resources and educational materials and training to the qualified schools that apply for our grants.  We are very wide reaching and are now going more deeply into the classrooms via curriculum integration and into the cafteterias with garden produce being added to the daliy fare offered to students.  

Community School of Excellence Edible Schoolyard

Community School of Excellence (CSE) is a public charter school that serves approximately 1,000 students in grades K-8. The school embraces and celebrates the Hmong culture through intercultural understanding and respect. CSE partners with Spark-Y (http://spark-y.org/) - empowering youth through action-oriented labs focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship - and the Design & InnoVation Lab’s CHEW program - Cook Healthy; Eat Well.

Food for Thought

Unlike publicly funded lunch programs, Food for Thought concentrates only on children in need. The principal and teachers in each school identify students who have had no breakfast or bring little or no lunch.

Money is raised by the Food for Thought board, from individual donors and corporate sponsors. This money is then used to purchase healthy, whole food and snacks at the Italian Centre Shop.

TouteSuite delivery service picks up the food and delivers it to the schools every other week.

100% of the funds raised are used for providing food for the students.

St John's Lutheran Church Food Pantry

The food pantry at St John's works with area schools to ensure kid friendly, healthy food is available to the members of our community.

 

Through working with the administrators and guidance counselors at area schools we are able to identify families who need help putting a meal on their table. Our food pantry collects non-perishables and strives to provide fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy and animal-based proteins through the generous donations of our parishioners.

 

 

Roosevelt IB Middle School garden

Roosevelt Middle School has three outdoor growing spaces including 28 raised beds, 4 hydroponic tables, nutrient feeding table, 400 square-foot greenhouse, compost area, hardening area and two dozen fruit trees.  Along with these growing classrooms, cooking labs, and proximity to the San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park, students have access to all the resources needed to become young agroecologists (contemporary sustainable farmers).

School Health Initiative Progam (SHIP)

SHIP is a partnership between the Williamsburg James City County (WJCC) School Division and the Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF), and a multitude of community partners that are committed to working together to create a healthier community. SHIP’s mission is to improve the health and wellness of WJCC students and staff by supporting and promoting healthy eating and active lifestyle habits in the schools, homes and the community.

st. francis school

I am the garden coordinator at a small independant school, St. Francis, in Goshen, KY.  It sits on 64 acres.  When I started, the school had 2 failed attemps with school gardens and an empty green house.  I have been there a year, part time, and have 6 raised beds with year round growing capabilities, a 350 sq. ft. in ground garden, 5 indoor vermacompost  and one in ground vermacompost.  We incubated eggs and have those chickens and 2 angora rabbits!  The kids have built me a chicken tractor and helped build the in ground vermacompost.  I teach part of their healthy choices class.

Nenana School District 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program

The Nenana School District 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program is dedicated to providing quality after school programs to enhance school curriculum and improve academic performance and provide students with the tools they need to be successful in life.  We teach sustainable, healthy living skills as well as practical life skills.

Valleybound - School and Community Garden

Valleybound is an empowering educational space that promotes healthy living practices through local agriculture, conservation and sustainability. School and community gardens have succeeded in various cities around the San Luis Valley including Saguache, Del Norte and Alamosa. These gardens have provided their citizens with a way to reconnect with their roots, all the while sustaining a dialogue centered on healthy lifestyles.

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