Upper Elementary

FoodChain

FoodChain is a nonprofit that strives to forge links between our community and food by

Mulberry School Cooking and Gardening Program

When you can go to the grocery store and buy just about anything you want, it is easy to become disconnected to our food system.    The mission of Mulberry's Cooking and Gardening Program is to connect students to their food, environment, and the community.

Woodland Park Zoo

The mission of Woodland Park Zoo is to save animals and their habitats through conservation leadership and engaging experiences, inspiring people to learn, care and act. Founded in 1899, Woodland Park Zoo has sparked delight, discovery and unforgettable memories for generations of Northwest families. People who experience the wonders of the natural world are inspired to protect it. That's why every year we lead more than 1 million people on a journey that inspires a lifelong love of animals, makes science come alive, and gives people the tools to take conservation action.

Cafe Atlantic's Garden Program

Our program teaches gardening and cooking classes in afterschool programs. Also, we collaborate with teachers giving tours and lessons to complement their areas of intrest related to their classes. We serve an international community with about 500 students. 

Our pedogagy aims toward holistic methods of gardening and lesson planning to bring awerness and purpose to the work. We want to learn more and be more professional in organizing and managing our program. We value high quality, the preservation and recycling of resources, and ecological awerness. 

The Delta School

The Delta School is located in the Midsouth, in the Mississippi Delta.  Agriculture and cotton guided our history. In the field, through the Wilson Gardens, and with our school’s farm as classroom program, agriculture continues to shape our future.

Port Townsend School District Farm to School

 

We serve all students in Port Townsend school district, approximately 1,110 students. Our values include place-based learning with hands in the dirt and cooking with whole foods. We support our learners in exploring nutrition education, plant-based science and real food as a tool for teamwork, health and holistic wellness. Ultimately, we teach respect for the gardens and for each other by guiding our students to become stewards of the Earth and their community. 

Granja educativa y Laboratorio del alimento, Villa de Leyva

As chef and cooking teacher for 10 years I have had the opportunity to understand how, by developing a relationship with food, students can acquire skills necessary for life.

Studying food, not as a commodity but as a system that allows us to understand life, develop environmental awareness, understand the human body and act as a means of knowledge ( a way to foster and develop culture and life skills)

 

The Greensboro Montessori School Permaculture Gardening Program

The Permaculture Gardening Program at Greensboro Montessori School nurtures each child’s appreciation and understanding of the natural world and builds ecologically responsible citizens by involving them in the seasonal cycles of planting, harvesting, and sharing the food grown in an organic, Permaculture garden. The Greensboro Montessori School is a privately run school in Greensboro, North Carolina serving students and families from a wide variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities, and nationalities.

Zasqua

The name of our school is Colegio Los Nogales and the program in which the garden is involved is called Zasqua Biorefuge, an take place in an area of the school that have a restored weatland (0.7 acres), three different types of restored native Andean forests (0.85 acres) and an interactive and productive areas (0.75 acres). Pk-Elementary are in charge of the: recicle plastic program, compost plant that manages all the organic waste the school generates and run the free range rabbit breathing center, we sell the rabbits for meat porpuse, generating in this way income to our program.

UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program - Farm to School and Community

Our Farm to School and Community (F2SC) program makes Florida-grown foods more accessible to SNAP-eligible people in Florida. The F2SC team approaches Farm to School holistically by partnering with a variety of stakeholders throughout the food system. We work with local partners — schools, farmers, businesses, farmers markets, food service professionals, non-profit organizations — and state and federal agencies to improve the health of Florida citizens, while benefiting farmers and the local economy.

Some of our projects include:

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