Middle School

Green Scene Chicago

With Green Scene Chicago programming I teach students how to plant and tend vegetable beds that, upon fruition, host two kinds of production: crops and theater. I recruit youth and elders to grow food and unearth their artistic impulses through writing, story telling, theater, music and dance. While exploring healthy earth practices, healthy eating, and healthy self-expression in the garden, these teams create performances to share with their community.

The David School

Founded in 1974, the David School is located in the small community of David, Kentucky, from which it takes its name. The mission of The David School 501 c (3) is to provide a educational program for Appalachian high school dropouts and at risk youth who have limited financial resources and the potential to succeed in a non-traditional setting. We will achieve our mission by creating a nurturing school environment that offers all students, through individualized attention, the opportunity to experience success and to serve their community.

Bay Leaf Kitchen Camp

Bay Leaf Kitchen summer camps teach hands-on cooking basics with a focus on fresh and healthy ingredients. Every week-long session includes an overnight farm trip where we will harvest vegetables, cook, play in the dirt and camp out at local farm. Each session will offer unique programming, allowing campers who sign up for more than one session to have the opportunity for a different experience from one week to the next.

Sprouts Children's Garden Program

The Sprouts Children's Gardening program is an intiative of the London Community Resource Centre. The progam teaches children and families about growing and preapring healthy, organic food. We promote urban bio-diversity, nature literacy, food literacy, and practical gardening and cooking skills. Our programs are hands-on, engaging, and fun and include garden exploration and maintenance, nature-related crafts, stories, and activities, and food harvesting and preparation. 

The Paideia School Farms and Gardens

The Paideia School is located in mid-town Atlanta, in the Druid Hills neighborhood.

Alpine Edible Schoolyards

Alpine Edible Schoolyards (AES) is the hub of urban farm and school garden installation, maintenance, and education in the Bow Valley. A liaison, resource centre, connector and facilitator, AES works with school boards, administrators, teachers, students, small businesses, municipalities, environmental groups and community members to ensure full, safe, utilization and continued success of fertile learning grounds. 

Yara Community Gardens

Yara Community Gardens provides space for members of the community, organizations and schools to rent plots for a minimal fee to grow their own produce to support their families and programs.  We have over 140 plots across 3 garden areas that are available to rent.  Each year at least one larger plot is designated as a Community Plot where vegetables are grown to support our vulnerable population.  The produce from here is donated to local service organizations and funds raised from our Charity Markets support these organizations as well.

Evergreen Community Charter School, Community and Student Supported Agriculture Project

Evergreen Community Charter School is a K-8 Expeditionary Learning public charter in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Evergreen's Community and Student Supported Agriculture Project is an effort to transform our curriculum and community by growing more food, feeding more people, and enjoying the flavors and community of our vibrant local foods economy.

Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School (ANCS) is a part of Atlanta Public Schools, and serves a diverse community of K-8 students from the Grant Park, Ormewood Park, and Summerhill neighborhoods in Southeast Atlanta.  ANCS emphasizes a project-based curriculum in an inclusive, vibrant, interdisciplinary learning community for students of all backgrounds.

Genesis Community Garden

The program began as a school garden for my special education students located in alternative program.  I joined up with a community agency to write grants to build a greenhouse in order to raise seedlings for the community gardens in our county.  We had a set back last year and are currently planning to provide seedlings for 18 community gardens and re-establish our school garden too. 

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