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Donaldson Way: Growing and Learning in the Garden

Our mission is to create a balance between technology and connection to the earth.  The focus of our program is duel.  The importance of knowing how our food grows and the availability of time and space to engage with learning in an outdoor environment.  Our school is part of a larger group known as New Technology Network and we incorporate use of technology and project based learning in our classrooms grades K-5.  We are building a garden and outdoor classroom aimed at supporting these projects and teachers in a way that creates hands on, real world opportunies for our students.

Penn Farm

The study of Agriculture at William Penn High School focuses on two fundamental areas: plant science and animal science. Plant science applies the principles of agriculture, biology, and chemistry of plant life. Connecting to our environmental science program, students combine economics, policy and ecology in order to study ecosystems and natural resources. Our animal science program emphasizes animal nutrition, animal care and how animals interact with our food systems.

Employment Training & Preparation Program: Mix't Greens

Mix’t Greens is a applied learning lab in Food and Customer Service and EARTH Gardening: Introduction to Growing Food Community College Employment Training Program (ETP).

Students who participate in ETP programing are adult learners, all with barriers to education and employment, some live with disabilities, mental health or addictions issues in their lives – all learners want to participate in hands on applied learning to develop their employment skills.

Urban Adamah

Urban Adamah provides garden and farm based experiential learning opportunities for young people all across the Bay Area. Urban Adamah is a Jewish farm that is inspired by Jewish tradition and practice. The youth department of Urban Adamah uses fun and dynamic hands-on activities for kids to get a taste of organic farming. Urban Adamah connects kids' relationship to food and earth while cultivating a culture and sense of mindfulness and appreciation. At camp, we do this through planting, harvesting, preparing farm to table meals, and building mud forts.

Cyclops Farms: Farm Education

Cyclops Farms has a mission of "Keeping an Eye on Our Food Systems."

Cyclops Farms Farm Education serves a community of socio-economic and culturally diverse individuals. Our education begins from the true organic roots “digging in the dirt” and knowing where your food source is generated through a closed-loop system. This includes trials and successes from tilling to seeding, nurturing to harvest, purchasing to meal planning, and composting for sustainability.

L' Orto in Campania

L'Orto in Campania is an educative garden of six hundreds square meters near Naples, Italy founded in 2011.

From the beginning it collaborates with Slow Food (Education Department) and it hosted the Yale Soustainble Food Project and the Rome SFP to held workshops together. 

Alice Waters visited us in 2013

MariLark Farms CSBanks

I am launching a seed movement with the spring 2018 unveiling of my Community Seed Bank (CSB) initiative in the Berkeley Hills! My aim is to build community one seed at a time, to educate the community about seed saving, biodiversity, soil health and much more. I am a member of SeedSavers Exchange @ seedsavers.org and have worked with them over the past few years to build a network and to hoist our annual tomato tasting. This has grown each year with this year being our sixth annual event. 

Santa Clara Unified School District - CTE GCC

The SCUSD CTE Garden Connections Teamis a part of a unified collaborative involving seven different SCUSD schools with varying demographics and backgrounds, as well as our child nutrition services department and the SCUSD Farm - to create a K-12 multi-disciplinary Garden Connections Collaborative (GCC). This GCC project includes school garden and culinary clubs, school site visits, mentorship exploration, field trips to our partnering sites as well as surrounding farm-to-fork educational facilities, and reality based education, career-connections opportunities for students.

Seed to Fibre

Seed to Fibre is a program that was developed as an activity for Farm to School Month. The Seed to Fibre program grew from an activity into a service project to be used by various non- profits to introduce activities to schools and out of school programs about Farm to School Services and how to implement Farm to School Services into curriculums, classrooms, and creative use spaces.

 

 

FARM SMART: University of California, Desert Research and Extension Center

FARM SMART is the outreach component of University of California Desert Research and Extension Center in Holtville, CA.  It has been widely recognized in the community for its K-12 programs as well as the Winter Visitor adult program.  Over 135,000 people have been reached through on-center visits and programs as well as off-site school visits since the program began in 2001.  We are passionate about educating youth and their parents through our K-12 programs.  Every year thousands of Imperial Valley youth come to the Center to learn about agriculture, water and irrigation, natural resource

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