Upper Elementary

Ohlone Elementary School Farm

One of the cornerstones of the developmentally based education at Ohlone Elementary School is the Ohlone Farm, which provides a place where children can interact with and learn about nature. A physical embodiment of Ohlone's Core Values, the Farm helps foster an awareness of the environment, nurturing and caring of animals, cooperative learning, social interactions between children of differing grades and respect for living organisms.

Hy-Vee Sprouts - Get Out and Grow

 Our program began last year after a vision of helping kids in our community connect fresh food to good health by growing their own vegetables and then cooking them outside in an outdoor classroom.  Our program partners with the local school district during the summer to provide a consistent enrollment to attend classes each week that incorporate gardening and cooking all in 90 minutes.  Our program received a Statewide Health Improvement Program grant from the state of Minnesota to build the garden itself which is located at the front of our local Hy-Vee supermarket.

SEEDS Arts and Education, Inc.

 SEEDS Arts and Education, Inc. is a non-profit organization, based in Laguna Beach, CA, committed to the advancement of children’s education by funding programs in the arts, sciences, and humanities. SEEDS supports arts and education programs that promote stewardship of the land, such as organic gardening, environmental awareness, and conservation; and programs that foster academic excellence in literacy, numeracy, science and humanities. SEEDS is devoted to enhancing quality of life for children and their respective communities.

Simply Fueling a Life of Love

 I'm interested in starting an edible schoolyard to incorporate into homeschooling my daughters and as a way to connect with and educate our community in organic gardening.  I need help with ideas of HOW to get started.

CHES Community Garden

 I am a parent volunteer who works with students at my son's (and soon my daughter's) elementary school in the school community garden.  My husband and I (and some parent/teacher volunteers) started the garden 3 years ago.  Our goal was to provide a space for nature exploration for the children and a chance for them to learn how to grow food and enjoy eating the food that they grow.  All of the children (about 360) plant seeds in the garden in the spring and then some children join me in the garden during recess time certain days to maintain the garden and taste what is growing.

Hamlin Street Elementary Garden Club

We are a suburban, public school of approximately 400 students.  We are located in West Hills, California.  Our garden consists of 8 raised beds with a pergola and some grape vines.  We are currently growing organic vegetables and have a few fruit trees.  Our hope is to expand our garden to include espallied fruit trees.  It's good to dream!

 

Plant the Seed

Plant the Seed is a not-for-profit program that creates outdoor classrooms in community and school gardens to educate and empower under-resourced young people—building cultural connections, advancing economic justice and improving their overall health and well-being.

Growing Up Organic

Growing Up Organic is a project of Canadian Organic Growers' Ottawa Chapter. We run a number of active programs aimed at increasing youth awareness of and access to local organic foods, while encouraging increased organic production for the local community. To date we have partnered with 23 schools across the Ottawa region in establishing organic school garden programs...the harvest grows more bountiful every year!

Friends of Holly Hill Farm

The Friends of Holly Hill Farm is the non-profit education center based at Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset, MA.  Holly Hill Farm is a certified organic vegetable, flower, and herb farm with just under 4 acres under cultivation.  The farm sells to the public and to a few local restaurants.  In addition to the growing fields and buildings, the farm is home to 130  acres of beautiful woods with marked trails and diverse habitats including open fields, streams, salt water marsh, and vernal pools.

Leaves for Learning

Leaves for Learning is a program fueled by our students wanting academics taken outside the walls of a classroom.  They used an abandoned frog pond, already on our campus,  as the spring board for what it has turned into today.  Today we have several vegetable raised beds, flowers beds, herb gardens, rain barrels, composting drums, a watershed to study, a cedar glade (indigenous to our area), Van Gogh Garden (sunflowers), and much more.  We are so eager to learn as much curriculum outside as possible.  It is a great sanctuary to read, study wildlife, and plant life.  We are truly blessed to

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