Upper Elementary

Roots & Culture

 Roots & Culture is an aspiring garden and nutrition education program serving urban youth in Oakland with a focus on food justice.  

Bee Girl's Kids and Bees Program

Kids love honey bees. It’s pretty much a fact. When I sat on the sunny deck of my aunt’s cabin eating honey comb straight from the hive as a toddler, a seed was planted that grew into an affinity for all things bees as an adult. I now travel the country and visit schools and summer programs with our observational bee hive (season and location permitting), activities, and tastes of honey for the kids. Seeing their faces light up gives me hope that I am helping to plant seeds of knowledge and fondness that may someday grow into a great beekeeper...

EduCulture

EduCulture bridges local farms, classrooms, lunchrooms and the larger food community through edible education programs that foster scholarship, stewardship, citizenship and sustainability. EduCulture is partnering schools and farms, transforming working landscapes into landscapes of learning, and utilizing our community as curriculum. Our edible education programs are serving academic needs, while growing produce for school and community food streams.

Commodore Options School - Odyssey Multiage Program

The elementary/middle school program within Commodore Options School--the multiage, alternative, choice school in Bainbridge Island School District--Odyssey 1-6 gave up a chunk of playground to create a garden space that now includes rich soil, a greenhouse, a shed, fruit, vegetables, flowers, herbs, and a brand new orchard. We developed a school garden to raise student awareness of where food comes from, how enjoyable it is to grow, and how fun and nutritious it is to eat.

California Native Garden Foundation

The California Native Garden Foundation is a non-profit educational, research, and resource organization that promotes gardening with California native plants. We work with Elementary, Middle and High Schools to design and build gardens using our healthy land use model, using native and traditional food plants, and urban farming technologies such as food towers and aquaponics.

Chapman Schools

Working with students through project based learning.

Foodwise Kids

Foodwise Kids is a free program for elementary school classes that uses the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market as a classroom for empowering the next generation of healthy eaters. Through comparative tastings, exploring the market, and a hands-on cooking lesson, we nurture children’s love for fruits and vegetables, teach them to prepare healthy, seasonal foods, and raise their awareness of their role in a sustainable food system.

 

Evanston Ecology Center Food and Garden Program

We are a newly established community center food and education program.

Mountain Song Community School

 We are a new Waldorf methods based charter school in Colorado Springs with Agricultural Arts and Cooking Nutrition as an integral part of our curriculum.  Although 33% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch, we have chosen to be independent of state/federal program - our students brown bag snacks and lunch. We plan to expand our gardens and growing spaces (which started on a parking lot bed) to help support a locally sourced school food and our existing cooking program.

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