Upper Elementary

Alaska Farm to School

The Farm to School (FTS) program is designed to offer expertise and support to all areas of the state to pursue farm to school activities and interests. The prevailing program goal is having product produced and/or harvested in Alaska available in the school food environment. We hope that through a variety of outreach efforts, we will increase the procurement and use of food grown in the state by public schools.

Valley View Elementary School

 I am a new organic gardener and I am a mother of a new Kindergartner. I am on the PTA and I would LOVE to begin this program on her campus. We are the second smallest school in our district and an old-world, yummy feel exists on the campus and an organic gardening program would be a WONDERFUL addition to the after school curriculum. 

 

I am just a mom with a vision at this point. I have not asked the principal yet if this is something of interest...though I can't see how anyone would object.

Blooming Heights Edible Schoolyard & Outdoor Classroom

Our Mission

The mission of Blooming Heights Edible Schoolyard is to support academic achievement and promote healthy nutrition for students in the Columbia Heights Public School District. As a district-wide organic school garden, Blooming Heights is a resource for all teachers and students to use as a living laboratory and outdoor classroom to enhance class lessons and curriculum. The garden is also open to community members as a space to learn about growing nutritious food and sustainable gardening.

About the Garden

Firefly Garden

Our school garden was established in March 2011.  We took a unused piece of turf and transformed it into an edible school garden.  The garden is named the Firefly Garden.  John Simmons who owns the Firefly restuarants in Las Vegas donated money for its start up.  We teach using the garden as a tool.  We grow our own vegetables and herbs.  The students also compost in the garden.  We have chefs come to the school and cook with the kids using what was harvested in the garden.

MeanGreens

MeanGreens emphasizes a healthy lifestyle, using its presence as positive role models in the community to reinforce fitness and healthy food choices. 

Briscoe Elementary Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ Program with Recipe for Success Foundation

Since September 2006, 528 children have participated in RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ programming each month.

All the students receive monthly classes in the Recipe Garden and the 4th graders also get a monthly Chefs in Schools™ cooking class with a celebrity chef. Participating RFS Chefs in Schools instructors are: Garth Blackburn, Sub-Zero Wolf (monthly classes since 2008); Barbara McKnight, Catering by Culinaire (monthly classes since 2006); GianCarlo Ferrara, Arcodoro (monthly classes since 2009); Mariquita Combes, La Villette Catering (monthly classes since 2009)

Recipe for Success Foundation

Recipe for Success Foundation's Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ has taught over 16,000 Houston elementary children how to grow, harvest, and cook their own healthy food. A growing list of 80 high-profile Houston chefs volunteer their time to help. The only initiative in the country of it's scope, the RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program introduces children to the entire cycle of food along with taste and flavor combinations, techniques, and skills that will serve them for a lifetime, and empowers them to prepare healthy meals and snacks for themselves.

Carlton Landing Academy

Carlton Landing Academy is a new public magnet school located in Carlton Landing on the shores of Lake Eufaula in eastern Oklahoma. Students are able to grow veggies, pick berries and raise chickens in the community garden - just across the street from the school buildings.

City of Oakland Community Gardens Program

The City of Oakland's Community Gardens Program provides 16 community gardens and 17 youth programs citywide.  Our youth programs provide children ages 4-13 with the opportunity to learn where their food comes from, growing organic herbs and vegetables for cooking onsite at recreation centers, or at home with their families.  Please contact program coordinator Peter Collier at 510.238.2197 for more information, or send him an email at pcollier@oaklandnet.com.  You can also visit a City of Oakland recreation center to see how you can get involved

Whittier Elementary

 Garden Leader: Helen Quinn – helenpatq@yahoo.com

Whittier, one of our first Slow Food Gardens, is located in the Denver Urban Gardens community garden on the school grounds. We work with Summer Scholars to provide after school and summer cooking classes and garden classes for the K-5 students. The community garden hosts a pumpkin harvest and give away each fall.

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