Upper Elementary

Parks Foundation Calgary Horticultural Program

Our Horticultural Program works towards community development using gardening. We partner with other organizations to engage diverse groups of participants who are responsible for the care and cultivation of five gardens around the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Participants learn how to grow their own edible gardens full of vegetables, herbs and flowers and also learn ways to use the items they have grown.

 

Greenwood School Garden

Greenwood School Garden currently features six raised beds (one for each class level) and is working on integrating growing vegetables into the school curriculum as well as using the garden to teach children about healthy eating. 

Oscar Mayer Magnet School Garden Project

The Garden Project oversees a number of programs here Oscar Mayer Magnet School, a Chicago Public Elementary School in the heart of the city. We have started a lunchroom composting program, planted four award-winning gardens on school grounds (including a bio-diverse native Illinois garden in conjunction with DePaul University), we have six chickens living in a custom coop in front of the school and we just installed two beehives. Our school serves students ages 3 years old to the 8th grade and we have both the Montessori curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.

City Sprouts

We sustain communities though gardening and build a skilled workforce who will enter into jobs & careers in culinary, public health, environmental-sciences, education, and more. We grow food, feed the community, and increase the physical, emotional, and financial well being of citizens in North Omaha and the Metro Area. Young people sixteen through twenty-one years old work, learn, and practice twenty-first century skills, which make them a well rounded, experienced, and qualified employees in careers that better the health of the community.

Schumacher School Garden

Our school garden was started out of a passion for kids to have more of an opportunity for hands on/experiential learning.  Currently the garden is essentially a school community garden, everyone in the Schumacher community (teachers, staff, students and their families) are able to use it as an place to grow their own food, however it has so far solely been planted by the students during school or through the after school Garden Club.  Any extra produce beyond that which is able to be utilized by the families that tend the garden, is offered to the cafeteria.

Edendale Food for Thought and Garden to Table

 Our programmes involve students between the ages of five and eleven years. Our junior students participate in the class teacher-led programme ‘Food for Thought’. Our older students participate in the NZ Garden to Table Trust’s programme where they have a cooking lesson with our kitchen specialist and a gardening lesson with our garden specialist once every fortnight. We have numerous edible gardens in the school, gardens which have food and flowers, an orchard and other fruit trees planted around the school. We also have a student-built greenhouse made of recycled plastic bottles.

Princeton School Gardens Cooperative

The Princeton School Gardens Cooperative is small 501c3 that works to increase food literacy in the public schools.

Mission: Fostering garden- and food-based education in the classroom, cafeteria and community.

Brookline Elementary

A garden classroom after-school program taught by members of Urban Harvest: a Houston non-profit involved in Garden Education, starting and maintaining Community Gardens, and organizing Farmers Markets.

Alcott Elementary

A garden classroom after-school program taught by members of Urban Harvest: a Houston non-profit involved in Garden Education, starting and maintaining Community Gardens, and organizing Farmers Markets.

Nuestro Jardin

Nuestro Jardin, (Our Garden) was built in 2007 - 2008 using funds from many years of paper recycling plus generous donations from many businesses in Dripping Springs, Texas.  It was built with countless hours of volunteer help by parents, staff, and students.

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