Upper Elementary

Community School of Excellence Edible Schoolyard

Community School of Excellence (CSE) is a public charter school that serves approximately 1,000 students in grades K-8. The school embraces and celebrates the Hmong culture through intercultural understanding and respect. CSE partners with Spark-Y (http://spark-y.org/) - empowering youth through action-oriented labs focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship - and the Design & InnoVation Lab’s CHEW program - Cook Healthy; Eat Well.

Food for Thought

Unlike publicly funded lunch programs, Food for Thought concentrates only on children in need. The principal and teachers in each school identify students who have had no breakfast or bring little or no lunch.

Money is raised by the Food for Thought board, from individual donors and corporate sponsors. This money is then used to purchase healthy, whole food and snacks at the Italian Centre Shop.

TouteSuite delivery service picks up the food and delivers it to the schools every other week.

100% of the funds raised are used for providing food for the students.

St John's Lutheran Church Food Pantry

The food pantry at St John's works with area schools to ensure kid friendly, healthy food is available to the members of our community.

 

Through working with the administrators and guidance counselors at area schools we are able to identify families who need help putting a meal on their table. Our food pantry collects non-perishables and strives to provide fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy and animal-based proteins through the generous donations of our parishioners.

 

 

School Health Initiative Progam (SHIP)

SHIP is a partnership between the Williamsburg James City County (WJCC) School Division and the Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF), and a multitude of community partners that are committed to working together to create a healthier community. SHIP’s mission is to improve the health and wellness of WJCC students and staff by supporting and promoting healthy eating and active lifestyle habits in the schools, homes and the community.

st. francis school

I am the garden coordinator at a small independant school, St. Francis, in Goshen, KY.  It sits on 64 acres.  When I started, the school had 2 failed attemps with school gardens and an empty green house.  I have been there a year, part time, and have 6 raised beds with year round growing capabilities, a 350 sq. ft. in ground garden, 5 indoor vermacompost  and one in ground vermacompost.  We incubated eggs and have those chickens and 2 angora rabbits!  The kids have built me a chicken tractor and helped build the in ground vermacompost.  I teach part of their healthy choices class.

Nenana School District 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program

The Nenana School District 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program is dedicated to providing quality after school programs to enhance school curriculum and improve academic performance and provide students with the tools they need to be successful in life.  We teach sustainable, healthy living skills as well as practical life skills.

Valleybound - School and Community Garden

Valleybound is an empowering educational space that promotes healthy living practices through local agriculture, conservation and sustainability. School and community gardens have succeeded in various cities around the San Luis Valley including Saguache, Del Norte and Alamosa. These gardens have provided their citizens with a way to reconnect with their roots, all the while sustaining a dialogue centered on healthy lifestyles.

Playa del Rey Elementary School Garden

The school garden is an extension of the classroom. Students are able to apply concepts learned in the classroom to real-world experiences in the garden. The garden is used for math, science, art, reading and language arts, and of course gardening. Gardening is integrated into cirriuclum and an enrichment component. The permaculture based management of the garden allows students to investigate the multiple systems co-existing within it. This encourages students to comprehend the larger intersectional relationships between subjects, skills and community in an exciting way. 

Growing Green Kids

GROWING GREEN KIDS  An enrichment program providing garden-enhanced nutrition education in a fun and active learning environment! Kids connect with nature and food as both gardeners and cooks in these action-oriented, child-centered classes and workshops. 

 

LILA School Garden

Our school garden is part of a community garden located on school property. It is an in-ground vegetable garden with an automatic watering system. It measures 38X14 square feet and is divided by 4 beds. The garden has been available for use for a long time, but it has never been sustained. At the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, we started managing it differently. One administrator (Nadjiba Medjaoui) was assigned to manage the garden, and she promptly applied for the Whole Kids Foundation Grant. Parents donated time, material and labor to launch the garden!

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