Upper Elementary

Kolter Elementary School

Kolter's garden is part of our outdoor learning center. The primary goal of the garden is to get students excited about growing their own food. We believe that people who are better informed as to how their food is grown are better prepared to make healthy choices as to what fuels their body. Our hope is that getting these students involved and invested at an early age will create a lifelong habit of healthy living. Additionally, we have learned that kids who have participated in the gardening process are more likely to try new foods.

Glenmoor Elementary School

Our garden's goal is to teach the children at Glenmoor Elementary to eat more fresh, whole foods through the school garden program. The grant will make it possible for the school to provide the resources and materials to get this program started and able to flourish. We are excited to have the opportunity to teach the children to grow their own foods and eventually taste the fruits of their labor in the school cafeteria salad bar.

Stetson School

We have established three primary goals: - Teach students about sustainable practices and the importance of sustainability and our food system. - Provide staff the opportunity to purchase fresh, organic produce, and to provide our cafeteria and classrooms with the same for free as supplies allow. - To show students that great things can be accomplished through hard work.

Food Literacy Center

Founded in 2011 as a 501c3 nonprofit, our mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. We teach low-income elementary children cooking and nutrition to improve our health, environment and economy. We have developed a 14-week curriculum. We use positive discipline in our instruction, and we keep our lessons fun, approachable, and hands-on. We use Broccoli Boundaries & Radish Routines to help students build lifelong habits and to become Food Adventurers. We started our nonprofit serving one school, and are now serving 800 elementary students in 8 schools weekly.

Farmers in the Playground

Farmers in the Playgound, located in the schoolyards of several elementary schools in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada is a program that unites kids to their food! Along with food garden facilitators, school staff and volunteers, children build, plant and grow food gardens on their school grounds. Gardening is not complete without the link it has to our tummies, so for half of the 1 full-day per week program(runs approx.10 weeks) the students are in the dirt and the other half brings them to the kitchen preparing lunch for themselves and sometimes their entire school.

Roxbury Central School Garden

The RCS garden club, harvested its first crops in 2003 and garden activities have been integrated into core curriculum, into the after school program, the summer youth program, and the community at large, who often donate tools, perennials and seeds. Students are involved in every aspect of the garden; designing a planting schedule, selection and maintenance of the crops, monitoring soil and compost health, and harvesting the boutny for the cafeteria. The goals of the garden are to enhance student ecological and agricultural literacy and environmental awareness.

Coeur d'Alene Elementary

Our garden classroom consists of 15 "mini" raised beds chalked full of veggies and native varietals. Participating students receive hands-on gardening instruction on a bimonthly basis from Master Gardener trainee, Becky Wolfe.

Horace Mann Outdoor Arts and Ecology Classroom

Public K-5 elementary school. Urban school on campus of Salem State University. 300 students.

Vegetables: 3 raised beds.

Habitat garden: 50 x 120 ft on hillside.

Students visit gardens as part of instruction. After-school Cultivator Club (4th and 5th graders) does most work.

School cafeteria participates in farm-to-school program as part of district-wide program.
 

Ewa Elementary Edible Learning Garden

Our Edible Learning Garden consists of various garden beds that incorporate different learning objectives.  Each garden bed holds a different theme and includes all the edible yummies chosen by both the students and teachers.  We have a pizza garden, fibonnacci garden (Math garden), Jack's Beanstalk (a garden bed filled with various beans), an Ewa Taro Patch (Lo'i with dryland taro), edible flower garden, Colonial garden (with wheat, potatoes, corn) and a 3 sister's garden. 

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