Pre-Kindergarten

Edible School Garden Project @ Humming Montessori School Osaka

The Philosophy of Humming Edible School Garden Project

Feel nature, learn for life.

    自然を感じ、人生のために学ぼう

Grow safe and healthy food.

    安全で環境に配慮した作物を育てよう

Eat our fresh seasonal vegetables and fruits.

    季節の新鮮な野菜や果物を食べよう

Cook simply with all our senses together.

    みんなで五感を使ってシンプルに料理しよう

Think about Food Cycle and sustainable environment.

    「食」に関する循環を考え、持続可能な活動にしよう

Set our table with nice tableware and flowers and enjoy eating together.

    みんなで食卓を飾り、楽しく一緒に食べよう

Sagamore Hills STEM Garden

Sagamore Hills Elementary School's S.T.E.M. Garden program was developed to give our students the opportunity to put the knowledge gained in the classroom to work in a real world environment. Having them leave the confines of the traditional classroom and get out into nature has proven to be the optimal environment for the best hands-on, experiential learning to happen. Every component of our program not only correlates and compliments the state required curriculum but expands upon it, allowing our students' natural curiosities, imagination, and ingenuity to take flight.

The Schoolyard as World

Our Sustainability Committee created the metaphor that gives our program its name: The Schoolyard as World.  This world is the laboratory where our students can experience citizenship and learn of a life wide with access to nature and its amenities as well as those of chickens and food fresh from their gardens.  In our program, students will also enlarge our connection to people and resources in our community through outreach and service learning.

Stanislaus Food &Nutrition Network (SFNN)

The Stanislaus Food & Nutrition Network (SFNN) is a diverse set of local stakeholders; consisting of farmers, government and non-government agencies, local businesses, and schools coordinating Farm to Community efforts throughout Stanislaus County to ensure consistent, cohesive messages that promote healthy lifestyles and support locally grown produce.

Wagner Ranch School Garden

~~First I will explain a little bit about us.  We have recently been given an area of around a quarter acre of land by the local school district to develop for our school site as a learning outdoor garden classroom.  Previously this land was part of a greater nature area which the district and community uses for district environmental education programs and nature-related festivals.  The area is alive with native plants, like coffeeberry,  ceanothus, teasel, willow, heritage champagne grapes and oaks which have been central to the environmental education programs, but there are several area

Grow to Learn and Governors Island Teaching Garden

As part of GrowNYC’s Greening department, both Grow to Learn and the Governors Island Teaching Garden aim to use urban gardens as a space for exploration, experiential learning and community building. Grow to Learn is the citywide school gardens initiative for New York City. We work with public and charter schools to ensure that gardens are sustainable teaching resources in the long term, responsive to each individual community’s vision and needs, and transformative for student learning in the cafeteria, classroom, and beyond.

FRESHFARM FoodPrints Program

What is FoodPrints?

FoodPrints is FRESHFARM Market’s food education program that aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through highly engaging, hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking and eating nutritious, local foods in season.   We work in partnership with administrators and teachers to ensure that FoodPrints is a relevant, enriching program that teaches Common Core, Next Generation Science and DCPS/OSSE Health standards, and that adapts to the unique curricular goals of each school we partner with.

Neighborhood Farmers Markets (Seattle)

The Neighborhood Farmers Markets manages 7 food-focused farmers markets in Seattle, WA. We are a nonprofit 501c3 organization with a mission to support local farms and promote local eating. 

Mission: The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance is committed to supporting and strengthening Washington's small family farm businesses by creating and operating vibrant, successful neighborhood farmers markets.

Green City Market

The mission of Green City Market is to improve the availability of a diverse range of high quality foods through connecting local producers and farmers to chefs, food organizations, and the greater Chicagoland community.  Green City Market achieves this mission by supporting small family farms and through providing education to adults and children about local, fresh, sustainably raised produce and products. Green City Market aims to create a sustainable food system in Chicago through our markets, outreach, and educational programming.

Oregon Afterschool for Kids

Oregon ASK is a collaboration of public and private organizations and community members which seeks to address common issues and concerns across all out-of-school time services, including  child care, recreation, education, and youth development. As an afterschool intermediary, we connect many stakeholders in the third space of learning, beyond the classroom and the home. We work to build the capacity of afterschool programs and provide training and technical assistance to program providers.

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