Upper Elementary

The Learning Garden

Randall's island Learning Garden, created as a result of the combined efforts of the Randall's Island Park Alliance and GrowNYC is a 15,000 square foot urban farm that aims to provide schools and groups who lack on-site or proximal open space with the experience of environmental education and nutritional learning by growing, harvesting, cooking and eating garden-fresh produce.

 

Common Threads

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

We teach our classes our of school kitchens and out of our Common Threads World Garden.  Our garden is located in the Hyde Park area of Chicago and we have been growing and cooking in our garden since 2007.

Grow Some Good

Grow Some Good is a nonprofit community program dedicated to creating hands-on, outdoor learning experiences that cultivate curiosity about natural life cycles, connect students to their food sources, and inspire better nutrition choices.

In addition to helping establish food gardens and living science labs in local schools, we provide resources and curriculum support through community partnerships in agriculture, science, food education and nutrition.

Building School Gardens

Started during the 2006–07 school year, Building School Gardens installs gardens at Chicago public schools to achieve the following purposes:

• Develop "garden teams" to support the garden,
• Integrate the gardens into multi-disciplinary curriculum at multiple grade levels,
• Use art creatively in the landscape,
• Instill an environmental ethic in those who the gardens effect, and
• Incorporate physical activity as a regular daily activity

Cory Elementary

Garden Leaders:

Jana Roush - janaroush@msn.com
Linda Scara – Lscara@comcast.net

Cory’s garden is located on the Southwest side of our building, off of Steele St. Our in-garden program is primarily for grades 1, 2, and 3 at the present time. Grades 4-5 are involved in the Youth Farmers’ Market.

Bradley International Elementary

Garden Leader: Lee McClure – alethea_mcclure@yahoo.com

Bradley is beginning an after-school garden club for 4th and 5th graders this February, which will include gardening, cooking and science lessons. Additionally, the garden is used for art classes, and produce is sold at a Youth Farmers’ Market. A May Day celebration is planned.

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