Upper Elementary

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

Dailard Elementary Edible Science Garden

 We are in the process of constructing out Edible Science Garden. We have funding in place and are moving forward! So very excited to get these kids growing their own food and relating the garden to their daily educational activities. 

Healthy Communities Coalition

Since 2010, Healthy Communities Coalition has strategically worked towards improving our area’s food system. We began developing a food hub by connecting local, state, and federal agencies, tribal groups, farmers, businesses, and community volunteers around the goal of creating an affordable, accessible and fair food system that bolsters our local agriculture economy, provides for residents in need, builds demand for locally grown foods, and creates a sustainable source of healthy food.

Discovery Garden

Discovery Garden at the Durango Discovery Museum

Enhancing the learning experience at the “Pow” by growing a science-based garden space.

Wonderland Avenue Elementary 'From The Ground Up'

From The Ground Up was started about a year ago and serves as an edible garden where kids from all grades come out the garden and learn about sustainability by doing hands-on activities. There is also a nutrition compondent of the program where a nutrition educator volunteer gives nutrition lessons in the classroom to discuss various topics like why eating a rainbow is so important, why breakfast is so important, discussing MyPlate, to name a few.

Alamo School Teaching Garden

 Through a grant we applied for last year provided by Alliance for a Healthier Generation, we are in the planning stages of a terraced Teaching Garden at the elementary school. 

We have worked closely with our school district facilities dept. to enlist their services to repair the existing irrigation system, as well as remove all existing vegetation, lay weed retardant and bark prior to the beginning of construction and planting.

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