Pre-Kindergarten

Building Gardens Building Minds

Building Gardens Building Minds program is very young and continues to evolve as we learn from our schools.  Our mission statement is "Equipping teachers to integrate curriculum standards into the edible classroom and improving community health through fresh produce." We currently work with approximatley 25 local schools across 5 counties to establish  edible school garden classrooms.  For the past two years we have partnered with Cabarrus Health Alliance and The CDC as a component of the REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) grant to help establish gardens as well as pro

AnnanThe Froebel School

All classes have their own froebelian growing beds which allows children to be involved in all stages of the growing process from planting to cooking.

Outdoor education is a priority at Annan school, our grounds include a pond, orchard, wild area and is surrounded by woods where children go each week to forest school.

These spaces are an integral part of the everyday life of the school and provide places where children can work and play and develop a deep appreciation of the natural world.

Community Harvest Project

Community Harvest Project is a non-profit farm in North Grafton whose mission is to create healthy and engaged communities through volunteer farming and nutrition education for those who are experiencing food insecurity. In addition to our volunteer program, we operate nutrition education programs to teach healthy eating habits to the next generation, and leadership programs to create community ambassadors for hunger. For the past five years we have run a successful nutrition program, Sprouting Minds, that includes field trips, classroom visits, and hands-on cooking classes.

Valor Academy Elementary School

I work for an amazing charter school called Valor Academy. We are a new school only being in our 2nd year of operation, and this is the very first year of our garden program. We have 5 raised key hole garden beds and a few other raised beds scattered throughout our campus. Our campus primarily services Latino students in a majority of economically under served areas. Our campus currently serves TK-2nd grade and will be adding a new grade every year as we grow. I currently teach gardening and cooking and would love to create a bridge between the two.

Nihi Hokchi--Planting Seeds

The Chahta Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that works closely alongside the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Nation, CNO), a federally recognized tribe with approximately 200,000 members, whose jurisdictional boundaries span 10 ½ counties (almost 11,000 square miles) in the southeastern quadrant of Oklahoma.

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.

Cartwright elementary School District Gardens

Our Mission is to serve healthy meals for the body and mind, for positive long-term health and accademic success.

Our vision is to be recognized as the leader in school nurtition by pioneering innovative methods of linking nutrition to life long learning.

We are an urban elementary PreK-8 grade school district that is establishing a district/community garden for the 18,000 students at 21 schools.  We are all provision 2 schools feeding all of our students free meals (we were at 95.3% free and reduced prior to Provision 2). 

World City Center Preschool

World City Center is a Preschool located in the West Adams area of Los Angeles, California. We offer a unique approach to learning and enrichment that addresses the whole child and is based on principals of educational excellence and cross-cultural exploration.

The model consists of a two part offering;

Agua Caliente Elementary

Our program at Agua Caliente Elementary School (ACES) is brand new, as of 2017. Although the school has had a garden for nearly a decade, it has not been highly cultivated. Under a new wellness coordinator and thanks to several grants, ACES is determined to establish a central school garden. The school's mission is a primary focus on health and wellness, with the garden playing a central role in education, socialization and inspiration.

ACES serves elementary school students from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds in an all-inclusive hands-on education system. 

THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER RED CLOUD, NE

The Valley Child Development Center's mission statement is "to provide exceptional child development services to families of Red Cloud and surrounding areas by operating a high-quality center that is safe, afforable, and reliable."

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