Upper Elementary

Alta Vista Specials Sprouts

At Alta VIsta we hope to infuse improved healthy food awareness along with the impact this has on their lives. The Students will research, design, implement, maintain, and harvest the garden. This will provide hands-on learning that will involve interdisciplinary education. The garden will provide a source of self-esteem and self-worth while building cooperation skills. The garden will build social skills, addresses multiple learning styles and will promote good nutrition that will last a lifetime.

H. B. Slaughter Elementary School

Our school’s gardening program began in 2011.  We have expanded the program each school year and we currently have 24 raised garden beds. We have 12 – 2’ high half barrels, 6 – 3’ x 3’ beds, and 6 - 8’ beds.   Each kindergarten and first grade class has its own garden space (barrels and 3’ x 3’ units).  2nd through 5th grade classes collaborate and share garden space by grade level. 

Albert Einstein Academies

 Our garden program started with some fruit trees donated by the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and parents building an edible garden next to the lunch arbor. We continued to build the orchard and many gardens throughout the campus including six international gardens.

Our garden educator with volunteers teaches biweeekly classes to the 3rd grade and kinder classes, 8 classes. Other grades intergrate gardening, nutrition, environmental education occasionally.

Montessori School of Evergreen Garden Program

We have a greenhouse that is surrounded by a fenced in outdoor classroom space that is in the process of being built with funds provided by the Whole Kids Foundation.  Volunteers and staff bring small groups of students to the greenhouse to care for the gardens and learn about the importance of taking care of our soil and water resources.

Roots and Wings Montessori School

Roots and Wings provides education and childcare for children from age 4 months to adolescence.  Now in our 27th year, we take education out of the industrial age of conveyor belt education into the current century of mindfulness and individualized learning.  We focus on earth stewardship, respect for equality and dignity among all people, entrepreneurship from age five, student inspired creativity and relevant academics.  We follow each child, enabling them to find their gifts and use them in service, empowering them to make a difference in the world.

In Praise of Soil

ALICE's arts, gardening, and nutrition program, In Praise of Soil is a collaboration with inner-city Oakland elementary schools. In Praise of Soil artists guide the children in creating visual arts projects based on the students' studies of plants, and integrate the art into existing science, social studies and language arts curricula. Students create temporary artwork as a means of expression, as a model of communication and collaboration, and as an inspiration for practicing interpersonal and literacy skills.

Rae C. Stedman Elementary Farm to School Project

Alaska Farm to School 2012 Mini-Grant Recipient

Cooking Up Some Fun In The Garden was a continuation of the Petersburg School District Farm to School Project started in 2011. This project recieved a grant from the Farm to School program to reach the goal of teaching students how to cook and prepare produce they grow, as well as seafood they catch, in the local community! The program emphasizes local sustainability and teaching children how to create healthy meals without commercial processing.

This location has a school garden.

Ravenscroft Lower School

Our garden , Raven Roots Vegetable Garden is enclosed by a deer fence and contains four raised beds. It is located on the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade playground so children have supervised access to it during recess. It uses rainwater collected into rainbarrels from the 5th grade building's  roof. The organic soil came from Brooks, an industrial foodwaste processor, that creates mulch  from our food waste recycling program in our school's lunchroom.

Rappahannock County Nutrition Services/Farm-to-Table Program

The FARM-to-TABLE PROGRAM (aka “F2T”) is a partnership between Headwaters, the Rappahannock County Public Schools, and other community organizations. Planted at Rappahannock County High School in 2004, the program branched out and now provides fertile soil for learning to students in many disciplines at both the high school and Rappahannock County Elementary School.
Students mixing soil

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