Upper Elementary

The Joyful12 School Project

Families that cook at home are healthier but not every family has the knowledge or skills to cook simple, healthy meals their family will enjoy.

Our project aims to improve the health of an entire school community in Novato, California - children, parents, teachers and their families - by teaching basic cooking skills focused on vegetables and fruits first. 

We will teach an entire elementary school to cook and eat more vegetables together with:

Bay Leaf Kitchen Camp

Bay Leaf Kitchen summer camps teach hands-on cooking basics with a focus on fresh and healthy ingredients. Every week-long session includes an overnight farm trip where we will harvest vegetables, cook, play in the dirt and camp out at local farm. Each session will offer unique programming, allowing campers who sign up for more than one session to have the opportunity for a different experience from one week to the next.

Sprouts Children's Garden Program

The Sprouts Children's Gardening program is an intiative of the London Community Resource Centre. The progam teaches children and families about growing and preapring healthy, organic food. We promote urban bio-diversity, nature literacy, food literacy, and practical gardening and cooking skills. Our programs are hands-on, engaging, and fun and include garden exploration and maintenance, nature-related crafts, stories, and activities, and food harvesting and preparation. 

The Paideia School Farms and Gardens

The Paideia School is located in mid-town Atlanta, in the Druid Hills neighborhood.

Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS

Mundo Verde is a sustainable and bilingual public charter school serving PreK3-5th grade. All students receive a Cooking and Gardening class once a week for an hour. Students learn how to support their own wellness, are encouraged to try new fruits and vegetables, and enjoy developing a closer relationship to their food by growing it in the garden!

Alpine Edible Schoolyards

Alpine Edible Schoolyards (AES) is the hub of urban farm and school garden installation, maintenance, and education in the Bow Valley. A liaison, resource centre, connector and facilitator, AES works with school boards, administrators, teachers, students, small businesses, municipalities, environmental groups and community members to ensure full, safe, utilization and continued success of fertile learning grounds. 

Yara Community Gardens

Yara Community Gardens provides space for members of the community, organizations and schools to rent plots for a minimal fee to grow their own produce to support their families and programs.  We have over 140 plots across 3 garden areas that are available to rent.  Each year at least one larger plot is designated as a Community Plot where vegetables are grown to support our vulnerable population.  The produce from here is donated to local service organizations and funds raised from our Charity Markets support these organizations as well.

Evergreen Community Charter School, Community and Student Supported Agriculture Project

Evergreen Community Charter School is a K-8 Expeditionary Learning public charter in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Evergreen's Community and Student Supported Agriculture Project is an effort to transform our curriculum and community by growing more food, feeding more people, and enjoying the flavors and community of our vibrant local foods economy.

Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School (ANCS) is a part of Atlanta Public Schools, and serves a diverse community of K-8 students from the Grant Park, Ormewood Park, and Summerhill neighborhoods in Southeast Atlanta.  ANCS emphasizes a project-based curriculum in an inclusive, vibrant, interdisciplinary learning community for students of all backgrounds.

Amana Academy Learning Garden

Amana Academy was founded on the principles of stewardship and trust.  In fact, the name Amana means " a trust that must be nurtured and guarded" in Arabic. Our students are taught responsibility for themselves, their community, and the natural world.  We do this through what we call Expeditionary STEM - an integrated approach to delivering advanced academics while at the same time seeking to solve real-world problems - usually through a lens of environmental stewardship or social justice.

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