Middle School

Amana Academy Learning Garden

Amana Academy was founded on the principles of stewardship and trust.  In fact, the name Amana means " a trust that must be nurtured and guarded" in Arabic. Our students are taught responsibility for themselves, their community, and the natural world.  We do this through what we call Expeditionary STEM - an integrated approach to delivering advanced academics while at the same time seeking to solve real-world problems - usually through a lens of environmental stewardship or social justice.

Aprende Grows

Aprende Grows is an after-school gardening club that empowers students who want to design, build, plant, harvest, and sustain an on-campus garden. Our initial goal was to build a functional garden. During our first year as a club, we were able to map out a blueprint for fourteen 4x4 planter boxes. From there, we installed a watering system and built the planter boxes. Year two, our goal swiched to researching our environment and determining what seeds to plant. It was a year of trial and error as we worked through various issues that came up as we put the garden to use for the first time.

Marist School Organic Garden

An organic school garden started in 2008 by the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents of Marist School in Atlanta, Ga.

Martha's Vineyard Island Educators

We are a group of educators, cafeteria managers and farmers working together on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, to bring garden education into every classroom.

Plants for Human Health Institute

At North Carolina State University's Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) we are leading the discovery and delivery of innovative plant-based solutions to advance human health. PHHI includes faculty researchers and Extension personnel. School gardening is one focus area of the Extension program, STEM Education. Through our school garden resources and engagement, PHHI is equipping teachers to integrate curriculum standards in the edible classroom and improving community nutrition through fresh produce.

 

Countryside Conservancy

Countryside Conservancy connects people, food, and land.  We manage three thriving farmers’ markets; offer educational programming for farmers, backyard gardeners, and home cooks with our Countryside U courses; and through our Countryside Initiative program have reestablished working family farms in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Odyssey Orchards

Odyssey Orchards is 1 acre edible learning garden and fruit orchard, where students learn how to care for the earth, grow healthy food, develop hands-on skills, and integrate their learning in a whole-systems context. Odyssey Orchards also functions as an urban-agriculture demonstration site, where members of the larger community can participate in weekend workshops that teach skills and methods in Permaculture design and sustainable living.

Where does food come from?

We are basically trying to use 'lost' space around the school on floors and walls to grow food and show students that food does not come initially from supermarkets. It supports one of the IB PYP units of inquiry which is the title of the programme. It also supports a child nutrition centre that our school owner, Pilar Deza, founded in an extremely poor area of Lima quite close to the school, http://www.coninperu.org/.

How Does it Grow?

How Does it Grow? is the first online hub for teaching agricultural literacy to ages 12 through adulthood through the power of storytelling.

By creating broadcast-quality videos and other free, multi-platform tools, our goal is to reconnect people with how their food grows in order to inspire greater connection with — and demand for — whole, natural foods.

Within the release of just the first few episodes of the "How Does it Grow?" web series, our videos quickly clocked over 100,000 plays.

Minnesota Food Association

The mission of Minnesota Food Association (MFA) is to build a sustainable food system based on social, economic and environmental justice through education, training and partnerships.

We envision a community where:
• All people who desire to farm have the tools, knowledge, skills and access to resources necessary to be successful farmers.
• Organic and sustainable agricultural principles and practices are embraced and supported by both producers and consumers.
• All people eat organic, sustainably and locally produced food.

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