Upper Elementary

Old School Farm

Nestled within the heart of Bells Bend, ten minutes outside of Nashville, lies a new, unique non-profit dedicated to producing quality farm-to-table food while providing employment for individuals that have intellectual disabilities. Old School Farm was founded in 2013 on the belief that creating a sustainable farm can also produce sustainable jobs while giving back to the community at large. It is our hope that Old School Farm will become a model site where you will find individuals of all abilities working side by side.

Shaw Elementary School

Shaw Elementary seeks to utilize the courtyard of our school to share scientific learning of plant cycles, environments, wildlife patters, life cycles and multiple other research and discovery based topics with our students!

Joan Austin School Garden

We have a school garden with 8 raised bed boxes.  Through a Fiskar grant we got the garden planted and growing for this summer 2016.  Teachers will collaborate on how to use the garden beds for the coming year Sept-June 2016-17.  An urban forest is in the planning stages, and is going to be added on the same site as the garden.

Top-school program Nordio

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We trying use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Edible Schoolyard Kern County

The Edible Schoolyard Kern County is a program supported through the Grimm Family Education Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit, based in Bakersfield, California. Working with students, teachers and parents, the Foundation supports initiatives to improve education and wellness in Kern County. The mission of the Foundation is: Through our charter schools and Edible Schoolyards, we will close the achievement gap, graduating students at or above grade level in literacy and math, improve the health of students and families and create economic impact in the communities that we serve.

Ready-to-Grow Gardens

Ready-to-Grow Gardens is an edible garden company that specializes in helping others grow organic vegetables, herbs and fruit all year in Miami/South Florida.

We help others grow food as locally as possible by designing, installing and maintaining edible gardens for homes, schools, restaurants, offices, and public spaces.

We also provide a wide range of  supplies one might need for your garden, including compost, organic fertilizer, mulch, and an excellent selection of  fruit, vegetable, and herb plants.

East Grand School Garden

East Grand  School Garden is a newly established program serving students Pre-K through 12th grade. Projects & activities will involve students in learning about agriculture through Art, Science, Math, Language, & History to name a few. Our goal is to encourage fitness, health, and learning in a fun, safe, healthy environment.

My school garden / Ο σχολικός μου κήπος

I started building a school garden at the back yard of my school about 10 years ago (2006) and ever since it has become a year-round educational programme with impact in the lives of learners, teachers, school communities and organisations. It has tuned out to be a long standing commitment, which promotes innovation linked with formal, non-formal and informal teaching and learning activities, alongside with the building of communities of practice for sharing common interests, knowledge, skills, competences and the joy of learning in the field.

Quincy Plumas Charter School

We are in our first year of starting the garden program and have been doing everything with our students, from laying the irrigation to building the raised beds, hoop house and tool shed! We have even milled some of our wood for the tool shed and sitting areas.We have an incredible quarter acre with excellent sun exposure and access to water. We are experimenting with various organic and permaculture techniques, including vermiculture, hugelkultur, mulching, plant tea fertilizer, etc.

Captain Planet Foundation

The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to give the next generation of environmental stewards an active understanding and love for the natural world in which they live.

For close to twenty-five years, we have been activating generations of environmentally literate citizens empowered to protect and sustain the natural systems upon which all life depends. Through our four main program areas, CPF invests in high-quality, solution-based programs that inspire and teach youth to become collaborators and agents of change.

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