Upper Elementary

Brain Child Press

 Brain Child Press was founded to respond to the growing childhood obesity epidemic and the dual crises of poor health and low literacy in the U.S.  We saw the expanding need for attractive, easy-to-read educational materials that address topics essential to the healthy development of children. Since 2005 our materials have been used around the nation by agencies, programs, and individuals working toward healthier  families and communities.

Joseph Sears School Outdoor Classroom

The Outdoor Classroom is an outdoor space for student exploration, inquiry, discovery and learning.  It is filled with native prairie, woodland flowers, butterfly garden and a rain garden. In addition, we have 4 raised vegetable beds, a low vegetable bed, Concord grape vineyard, blueberry, raspberry and strawberry bushes and places to sit, study and enjoy the garden. The outdoor classroom is maintained by students, staff, and parents. During summer months, family volunteers adopted a week to weed, harvest and maintain with the help of The Organic Gardener every Friday.

Peabody Charter School Cafeteria

Peabody Charter School Cafeteria has operated a cook from scratch cafeteria for nearly 20 years with a menu that empahsizes whole grains and local, fresh poduce.  We facilitate classroom coooking projects, after school cooking classes and family dinners.  Our school gardens offer lots of hands on experiences for children to dig in the dirt and cook what they grow.  Several times a year we host Celebrity Chef lunches.  A local chef plans a menu that meets the requirements of the National School Lunch Program and then supervises our kitchen staff in preparing and serving the meal to students,

Pilot Light

Mission
Pilot Light’s mission is to support teachers in creating food-based classroom lessons that support children with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills they need to have healthy relationships with food. To do that, Pilot Light has developed a cohesive model for classroom food education, incorporating food as a lens for traditional subjects, such as Math, Reading, History, and Science in K-12 classrooms.

Mobile Greenhouse Project

The Mobile Greenhouse Project is designed as a way to make food growing fun and interesting for kids and adults.

I travel with my converted school bus to schools and events and offer my services to install gardens at schools, clubs and churches. I also help with community gardens and private residence gardens.

Pure Food Kids Foundation

Seattle chef, Kurt Beecher Dammeier, has long been concerned about the growing number of food additives in the food supply, as well as the misleading food packaging that was attracting his own children. To effect change, in 2006 he founded the Beecher’s Pure Food Kids Foundation. Our mission is to empower kids to make healthy food choices for life. We do this by providing free, learning standards aligned food education and cooking workshops to nearly 800 4th and 5th grade classrooms in the Seattle and New York City metro areas.

Ivy Tech Associate Accelerated Program & IPS #87 Garden Project

Ivy Tech’s ASAP Program and IPS school 87’s Garden Project is a space wherein students experience the origins of food and is a hub for collaborative learning.

FoodPrints at Tyler Elementary School

FoodPrints programs are now in 5 public schools in Washington, DC. The FoodPrints garden at Tyler Elementary is one of our newest, started in the spring of 2014 with a school garden grant from OSSE (DC's dept of education), generous support from FreshFarm Markets, and lots of help from the school community (students, staff, and parents).

Education Outside

Education Outside is cultivating the next generation of scientific thinkers and environmental stewards by introducing urban children to hands-on explorations in public school gardens.

We support a service corps of emerging leaders who work full-time at 37 of San Francisco’s public elementary schools to bring nature and science directly into the hands of 14,000 students each year.

The New York Botanical Garden

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: The New York Botanical Garden, in collaboration with Leave It Better, proposes an education and procurement project to benefit 12 public and charter schools in New York City. The project will test a holistic school gardening model that integrates school gardening activities with hands‐on workshops in the New York Botanical Garden’s Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden and Greenmarket.

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