Middle School

YMCA Active Green Space

The Active Green Space is an engaging space where community members benefit from a hands on learning experience, explore the process of horticulture, learn the advantages of proper nutrition, harness and utilize green energy alternatives and prevent prevalent health concerns.

Our mission is to teach the process of horticulture, to develop proper nutrition habits, and improve the overall health of our participants through an understanding of where food comes from, how it grows and how these processes are affected by our lifestyle. 

Whole Kids Foundation

Whole Kids Foundation is dedicated to helping kids eat better—and enjoy it!

We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded by Whole Foods Market and guided by the same values, principles, expertise and standards for quality ingredients, food production methods and nutrition.

 

Our Mission

JD Rivers' Children's Garden

You and your youth group are invited to come out to play, learn, and explore at the JD Rivers’ Children’s Garden! This one acre food and flower garden is nestled into Theodore Wirth Park along Glenwood Ave. It provides ample opportunity to catch frogs along Bassett’s Creek, wade in Wirth Lake, meander through the prairie to search for butterflies, and walk through Wirth woods. Youth gardeners plant, weed, water, compost, harvest, prepare, sample, and take home the garden produce like kale, basil, flowers, and tomatoes.

MHBA Living Laboratory Community Garden

Mott Hall Bridges Academy, located in Brownsville, Brooklyn, broke ground on its Community Garden in May of 2014. Raised bed gardens are being planted and there will also be a colony of bees providing honey. Scholars and school groups will be assigned plots in the garden to tend to year-round.

The garden space will be used to enrich scholars' learning experience accross curriculums including the content areas of art, science, math, and health.  In addition, the garden will be the source of nutrious fruits, vegetables, and honey for the local community.

Come Grow With Us - PASC

We are a special needs school serving learners with Autism between the ages of 4 and 21.  Our garden is being used to address vocational needs for high school students, develop leisure/recreational skills that can be shared, improve communication skills, and meet cross-curricular academic goals.

Taste of the Fields

Past the Farm Barn and through the sugarbush you’ll find our Market Garden and outdoor pavilion. Its fields of produce, outdoor kitchen, mobile chicken coop, and pigs give us the opportunity to participate in chores and create a taste of the fields each day! The surrounding woodlands and lake shore allow us to hike, swim, and explore, while our intimate setting at the pavilion provides an excellent backdrop for feasts, stories, and laughter.

Al Salam Day School Edible Garden

•To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality. 

Silicon Valley HealthCorps

In an innovative partnership, The Health Trust has joined together with AmeriCorps and 10 local organizations to form the Silicon Valley HealthCorps. The goal of this collaboration is to improve community health by providing ongoing garden-based nutrition education to youth in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. The HealthCorps will also increase the availability and affordability of locally grown produce through the development of new community and school gardens, low-cost farm stands, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs.

We OLive the World

"We OLive the World" is a program started by Stile Mediterraneo - the Mediterranean Cooking School in Puglia Italy.

Goal of the program is to improve people's health and wellbeing through the Mediterranean food and education.

Stile Mediterraneo is run by food experts, olive oil experts and doctors.

They have developed this unique program (We Olive the World) through which people learn two things:

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