Upper Elementary

Promise of Peace Community Gardens

The Promise of Peace, (P.O.P.), Gardens was established in 2009 as an effort to bring diverse groups of people together on common ground while connecting to nature and learning to grow REAL food and then to celebrate the food as we shared the harvest. The mission of P.O.P. is to create equal access to nutritious food for all children and their families. We transform vacant places into thriving growing spaces where our programming changes lives one seed at a time.

Garden of Hope

The Garden of Hope  is a side project of the School of Hope located in Jocotenango, Guatemala. The School of Hope is run by the Education for the Children Foundation, an international NGO that provides a quality eduacation and variety of wrap-around services for over 500 underprivildged children in the community of Jocotenango (more information http://www.eftc.org.uk/).  Children at the School of Hope come from a variety of compromised and underpriviledged backgrounds.

Oriole Park School TEACHING FARM

Oriole Park School Teaching Farm is an interactive, outdoor classroom - run by teachers, parents, urban farmers, and do-gooders - who strive to inspire and engage young minds with first hand experience in growing food start to finish.

Greater Atlanta Christian School Environmental Learning Center

We are a K3-12 private Christian School in the suburbs of Atlanta with ~1900 total students from 90 different zip codes. 

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  We believe hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do two things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food.

Local Urban Gardeners

Our mission is: To create a garden bassed community center that can serve as a place of learning, a place to grow nutritious food, to promote sustainable gardening and inspire community improvement. 

We are working to develop a community garden and learning lab at Natividad Creek Park in Salinas,CA. It has been an ongoing process since 2013. This year looks promising and if all goes well we should be able to break ground in early spring 2016!

SPEC School Gardens Program

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

 

Belle Chasse Academy

The mission of the Belle Chasse Academy Victory Garden is to provide students and their families with life skills, health literacy, and economic insight through the integration of the garden and kitchen classroom experience into our daily school curriculum and the local economy.  This will be accomplished through a hands-on holistic approach that immerses students in gardening, making healthy food choices, improving our environment, and becoming a community with a smaller carbon footprint and larger ecological “hand-print.”

Ashley River Garden Gourmet Club

Our Garden Gourmet Club is made of 4th and 5th grade students that want to learn how to garden and use fresh produce to create healthy snacks and meals!  We have raised beds, a greenhouse, and an indoor grow lab where we grow vegetables like lettuce, carrots, radishes, and much more!  We then take our harvest to our kitchen lab to cut, chop, and create healthy foods!

Grow Your Own!

Grow Your Own! (GYO!) is The Ecology Center's community-building initiative dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food ecosystem and community. GYO! supports a growing network of over two dozen school gardens and their leaders with mentorship, trainings, curriculum, design support and resources to help create sustainable gardens and programing that are beautiful, educational, and functional, integrating essential elements of holistic ecological design. 

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