Upper Elementary

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.

Torrey Pines Elementary School Garden

Torrey Pines Elementary School garden provides an outdoor classroom setting that allows students and teachers access to an active garden resource. The goals of the program are the integration of science curriculum aligned with Next Generation Science Standards as well as Common Core aligned curriculum using the garden as a resource. The garden program is also certified in the San Diego Unified School District garden to cafe program where students grow and harvest produce for the school salad bar.

Longview Farms

Longview Farms is a family farm located in Havana, Florida and nested in restored longleaf pine forest. The mission of the farm is to raise healthy grass-fed and finished Devon cattle, pastured chickens and pigs, and healthy vegetables free of pesticides and chemical fertilizer. The farm is also committed to providing students of all ages opportunities to immerse themselves in nature, and get hands-on experience with sustainable farming.

Community GroundWorks

Community GroundWorks is a nonprofit organization that connects people to nature and local food. Through hands-on education, children and adults learn gardening, urban farming, healthful eating and to care for natural areas. Organized in Madison, Wisconsin in 2001 as The Friends of Troy Gardens, Community GroundWorks serves diverse communities and schools across the region.

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