Pre-Kindergarten

GrowingGreat

 GrowingGreat is a nationwide community-based non-profit education organization dedicated to inspiring children and adults to adopt healthy eating habits, decreasing the risk of obesity and disease.  Our goal is to help children, families and our communities understand where our food comes from, appreciate that food serves a purpose in our overall health and has an impact on our longevity and well being.  GrowingGreat educates PreK-5th grade students through teaching gardens and classroom nutrition linked to standardize curriculum.

University of California Davis School Gardening Program

The UC Davis School Gardening Program is a program of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute on the UC Davis campus. It is located at the Ecological Garden and Student Farm on campus. The program provides an array of opportunities for learning about gardening, farming, food systems, nutrition, and the development and use of school gardens.  These opportunities serve audiences ranging in age from kindergarten students, through youth and college students, up to adult educator groups. 
 

Growums Garden Kits Made Just For Kids

Growums are themed garden kits that allow children to grow complete gardens and encourage them to eat healthy foods- a vital concern for educators and parents everywhere, as our country
continues the fight against childhood obesity. Growums has 6 different garden kits (Pizza, Taco, Salad, Stir-Fry, Herb, and Ratatouille) that comes with a self-watering tray, 8 seed-starting pellets, 4 different types of seeds and 8 character plant ID tags. Each seed is represented by a lovable Growums character. The characters come to life and teach children step-by-step (from seed to

Oak Grove Learning Garden

A great place for our students to learn and enjoy the outdoors

Kidding around the Kitchen

Kidding Around the Kitchen (KATK) brings a “hands on” cooking experience and lesson to the classroom in which the kids actively participate in the preparation of recipes. The result of their cutting, measuring cooking and then eating their creations is more than simply a lesson in health. They get to see, touch, smell and taste the fruits, vegetables, nuts, cheeses, eggs, meats and other ingredients that they may never have previously see in their raw form. The classes reinforce math, science, reading and vocabulary all within a one hour lesson.

JCCSF Rooftop Garden

The JCCSF Rooftop Garden is a place where children and adults can discover and learn how to grow food and care for plants through a unique range of urban agriculture programming.  Learning opportunities and curriculum include a focus on small scale gardening, culinary education, and environmental awareness.  We regularly serve preschool and SFUSD afterschool students during the school year and throughout the Summer within a diverse camp setting.  An expanded series of Rooftop Garden Workshops will be open to adults this Summer and through the rest of 2013.

The IPS/Butler University Laboratory School Garden

 We currently have 9 garden boxes, an outdoor classroom, a three tiered compost system, three chickens, an orchard, and rain garden in our urban setting. We use the garden as a teaching tool to not only teach about sustainability, plant propogation, and life cycles, but also integrate it into our curriculum as much as we can. We are looking to find ways to continually use our program in meaningful ways that are beneficial not only to the children, but to our families, teachers, and surrounding community members.

Island Grown Schools

 Island Grown Schools is Martha's Vineyard Farm to School Program.  We work with almost every schoolage child on the island, from 2-18 years old, at all seven K-12 schools and at six island pre-schools.  We have installed and support gardens at all 13 of our partner schools, work with cafeteria staff to bring locally sourced meat and produce to school meals at every school, collaborate with classroom teachers to lead farm, gaden, and nutrition-based curriculum-tied lessons, and lead field trips to island family farms.  

Yellow Tractor

 Yellow Tractor is a mission-driven organization built on the Social Enterprise model. We are in business to create lasting, positive change in individual health and well-being and seek partners who share this objective.  When you partner with Yellow Tractor you enable us to provide the same benefits to organizations in under-served communities through our non profit arm, The Yellow Tractor Project. Together we can bring about real social change.

Oscar Mayer Magnet School Garden Project

The Garden Project oversees a number of programs here Oscar Mayer Magnet School, a Chicago Public Elementary School in the heart of the city. We have started a lunchroom composting program, planted four award-winning gardens on school grounds (including a bio-diverse native Illinois garden in conjunction with DePaul University), we have six chickens living in a custom coop in front of the school and we just installed two beehives. Our school serves students ages 3 years old to the 8th grade and we have both the Montessori curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.

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