Upper Elementary

The outreach programs central focus is providing healthy and nutritional meals to senior citizens who are homebound and to children currently enrolled in the Public Schools Free or Reduced-Lunch Programs.
 

Moss Haven Farm provides nutritional, agricultural and environmental education on an urban school farm that grows student skills in academics, healthy lifestyle and giving back to the community. Our school farm serves the community surrounding Moss Haven Elementary, a diverse neighborhood of Lake Highlands in northeast Dallas, Texas. It is considered to be an urban community with a blend of single-family dwellings and apartment communities.

 The educational gardens at both Live Oak and Del Mar Elementary schools, located in the Live Oak area of Santa Cruz, provide K-5 students an outdoor curriculum-based garden experience. Students learn various components of the organic garden experience, including vermicomposting, seed germination, and water cycles. The garden program is based upon the concept of age appropriate hands-on learning. It attempts to provide a holistic approach to healthy food systems and experiential knowledge of the food-based natural world.

SEEDS is a nonprofit organization in Northeast Central Durham with a 2-acre urban garden and kitchen classroom. We aspire to develop the capacity of young people through growing, cooking and sharing food. We promote the principles of responsbility, environmental stewardship, community, equity, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership, sustainability, experiential learning through seeds-to-feast, educational programming for young people who attend primary and secondary schools.