Upper Elementary

SideChef

We believe cooking is for everyone.

SideChef is an innovative step by step cooking app launching in Feb 2014. By walking users through a recipe with voice guidance, step by step photos, and automatic timers, SideChef makes it fun and easy to try new cuisines and master techniques, while also keeping a photo journal of every dish you have cooked!

Science Alive

science Alive is a comprehensive garden and science program that teaches environmental stewardship, science, nutrition and basic garden skills to Theodore Judah elementary school population. 

Farmer Frog

Farmer Frog is Branch of the 501c3 non-profit organization, Foundation for Sustainable Communities. We are promoting, supporting, teaching, and practicing intense urban and small scale agriculture utilizing cutting edge season extender technologies producing 365 days a year. Our organization was and continues to be inspired by Will Allen’s Growing Power model.

Holy Cross School Life Lab

Holy Cross School Life Lab provides experiential, outdoor garden activities to complement and enhance classroom learning in language, art math and science from pre-school through 5th grade.  It is maintained with the help of parent volunteers and classroom teachers.  Several of the raised beds are available to view outside our school building on School Street in Santa Cruz and are enjoyed by visitors to the Mission State Park as well as neighbors.

WHS Learn+Play Gardens (Wm. Hammerschmidt Elementary School)

Project Mission

The mission is to create a progressive landscape that includes updated play equipment, outdoor classroom zones including an Edible Garden, hardscape for recreation, and green space for active recreational sports as well as passive recreation and conservation opportunities to serve WHS students, neighborhood families and the greater Lombard community. Together, we are working to transform an ordinary schoolyard into a dynamic center for learning, health and fitness, conservation and community.

 

Ventura Unified School District Demostration Garden

Our demostation garden mainly serves two elementary schools and one middle school. We teach lessons in the garden that connect with Core Curriculum and emphasize health and nutrition.  We will also be conducting Garden Enhanced Nutrition Education trainings in our garden for educators.

Forget Me Not Farm Children's Services

Since its inception in 1992, Forget Me Not Farm has helped thousands of at-risk children and youth break the cycle of abuse. Located on the grounds of the Sonoma County Humane Society, the Farm offers animal-assisted and horticultural therapeutic activities that provide a haven for children, animals, and plants to interact, bond, learn and heal. As part of our programming, children and youth from the foster care system come to the farm each week and help plant, tend, and harvest food that they can bring home with them at the end of the day. 

Franklin School Victory Garden

The Franklin Elementary School Victory Garden is administered and supported by Victory Garden Foundation - a 501c3 community benefit organization with a mission to educate, support, encourage, inspire, and advocate for people growing food at and near home.

The Franklin garden currently provides an educational backdrop to about 300 students led by 10 teachers; 5 volunteers under the supervision of Victory Garden Foundation. The garden program includes Math and Science in the Garden; Gardening skills; Monarch Butterfly Project, and Health and Nutrition in the Garden instruction.

New Horizon Peace Garden

The vision for a New Horizon School Peace Garden at its middle school campus grew out of a desire to develop a space that will enrich our students’ learning with the establishment of an environmental education program and serve as a place to sow seeds of peace and understanding through community building. The school’s diverse student body hails from all around the world including Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Our core goals for the Peace Garden’s 6,480 foot space are:

Suisun Valley Garden

Suisun Valley is a rural K-8 school of approximately 520 students located in a prime agricultural area of Suisun Valley. Approximately 60% of our students come from outside our attendance area, attending our school as a school-of-choice option or NCLB choice from underperforming schools. The school has developed a reputation for being a small nurturing school and instructionally demanding environment.

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