Upper Elementary

Valley Academy Charter School

We are Desert Hive Food Forests, a Non-profit organization operating in the far Southwestern corner of Utah! We are currently working on a school garden overhaul with Valley Academy Charter School a Kindergarten through 7th grade school serving about 350 students in a rural desert community. We believe strongly that schools provide the perfect platform for community centered agriculture and believe that outdoor garden classrooms that serve the children, the cafeteria, and the community, are a necessary addition to our current curriculum standards.

Red Hill Lutheran School

 

Parent volunteers from Red Hill Lutheran School in Tustin, CA constructed an Outdoor Classroom last summer, and it is now know around campus as the RHLS Learning Garden.

Classes Kindergarten through 5th Grade visit the Learning Garden once a month for CA Standards based lessons and hands-on gardening experiences.

Alta Mesa Garden Club

Our Student Garden Club meets twice a month. We have about 50 members ranging from 1st graders to 5th graders. We have parent volunteers as well. Our club works to improve our school landscape and works in our school garden.

Classrooms can use the garden and one class does so regularly.

We also run one fund-raiser per year to fund our garden projects.

Marsh Creek School Garden

Our school garden was started a couple of years ago and has grown ever since.  The students and staff enjoy it as an outside classroom.  The 4th and 5th grade students who are in the garden club do most of the upkeep and planning for the garden.

Havens School

 Elementary school garden

Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School

Tucked away in the hills above San Luis Obispo is Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School, a natural preserve, a school campus, and an extraordinary learning resource. Here, on 250 protected acres, students literally reach out and touch the natural world and explore their place within it. Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School provides hands-on learning opportunities for students to study science and ecology in a natural setting. It is outdoor education at its very best and we have been providing it for over 40 years.

CommunityGrows

Our mission is to cultivate healthy youth through growing gardens in diverse, low-income communities.

Marquez Charter School Edible Garden

The Edible Garden Program at Marquez Charter strives to show children where their food comes from and encourages them to eat more healthy food. 

We have a Seed to Table approach where children plant, grow and then eat what they grow. Students taste from the garden whether it be chives, tomatoes, mint, arugula, lettuce or strawberry guavas, as well as cook such recipes such as salsa, pesto, or succotash.  

St. Catherine School Garden

We have an area of 50' x 100' of raised beds and open areas, including several fruit trees. Teachers work with our Garden Coordinator to plan lessons that tie in with classroom curriculum. Food from the garden is used for classroom activities and some is given to our onsite food bank.

Starr Elementary Garden

 We do a combination of indoor gardening and cooking activities in two half-hour meetings per week. Our garden is about 10 feet by 25 feet long, enclosed by a fence. Earlier we grew tomatoes and sunflowers, but we have had to switch to flowers and herbs (bee and butterfly friendly). We have just received a donation of some wood that's already in raised bed construction (used for air conditioning parts) and since it is not chemically treated, we can turn them into raised beds in spring. We will locate these in a different area, but will not have an easy time watering.

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