Upper Elementary

Valley View School District Edible School Gardens

Among the many benefits of school gardening, the ultimate goal of the Valley View School District is to utilize the garden to cultivate healthier eating habits in students. Studies show that children who are involved in edible school gardens have increased their daily vegetable and fruit consumption by 2.5 servings per day (American Dietetic Association, 2007). Furthermore, growing and harvesting their own food increases children’s willingness to try new fruits and vegetables and improves their knowledge and attitudes toward these foods.

Greenhouse Gardening

We are growing vegetables and herbs in our recently built greenhouses.  We then prepare and eat them with the Life Skills Teacher to promote healthy eating habits.  This program involves the third - fifth grade students at our school planting the seeds, transplanting them into the greenhouses, and harvesting the mature plants before preparing them in the life skills classroom.

 

FFR Co-op Kids' Educational Garden

We are a new project, just getting started, that was seeded by a grassroots fellowship community project grant and in collaboration with our local parks district. Our goal is to inspire our community's children to eat better, preserve farm land, and get involved with their community.

Foodweb Education

 Foodweb Education is a gardens-based program that is currently developing a framework that teaches and reinforces fundamental ecological patterns such as energy flow and matter cycles. It aims to provide students with not just a set of behaviours, but tools for conscious adaptation within natural limits and a deep understanding of the processes that sustain life.

MontclairDIGS

The Montclair DIGS (District Initiative for Gardening in Schools) program, launched in spring 2012, is taking root at Montclair Public Schools.

Globe-Miami School Garden Project

 As an Americorps VISTA working through the Cooperative Extension, I am working with teachers and the superintendants throughout the Globe-Miami region in Arizona to start school gardens from scratch. Starting with a  pilot project at a local elementary school, we train the teachers and provide and reserach and resources for whichever added schools would like to join the movement. Teachers will receive the Master Gardener course at a discounted rate, and we provide specific curriculum on gardening instruction for different grade levels. 

Ontario Edible Education Network

Across Ontario, Canada, people are doing great work to connect children and youth with good food.

The Ontario Edible Education Network has been established to bring these groups together to share resources, ideas, and experience, to work together on advocacy, and to make it easier for people across Ontario to get children and youth eating, growing, cooking, celebrating, and learning about healthy, local and sustainably produced food.

Slide Ranch

Slide Ranch Mission
The mission of Slide Ranch is to connect children to nature. Slide Ranch teaches visitors the impact our choices have on food, health, and the environment, through hands-on activities and independent exploration of our farm and coastal wild lands.

Every bite of food connects us to the soil, sun, water, and air, and to the people who work to feed us. Slide Ranch teaches respect and responsibility for sustaining these connections.

Create Common Good

 Create Common Good uses food to change lives and build healthy communities. Our vision is a healthy community where people have access to empowerment, employment, self-sufficiency and access to healthy food. We use access to healthy food to positively change people's lives by harnessing the community's resources to build lasting systems that provide employment and self-sufficiency. Our training programs all prepare at-risk, underserved populations to find, perform, and retain work with the ultimate goal of self-sufficiency in our community.

Laurelhurst K-8 Garden

Edible garden developed in 2009; butterfly garden developed in 2001.

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