Upper Elementary

Horicon Mindful Edible Schoolyard

Matrix of Change, a local non-profit sustainability group founded by Mary-Dee Bowers in the 1990s, has provided Horicon School with both a mindfulness program, (Goldie Hawn's MindUp Program) and a working garden with fencing, tools, garden boxes, and now a new portable green house so that each classroom has its own garden area. Horicon's dedicated administration, faculty, and staff, and a group of local volunteers help the children build and reestablish their own gardening systems each year.

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Growing Oshkosh's School Garden Program

Growing Oshkosh's mission is to raise awareness and educate citizens about the numerous benefits of fresh, healthy, local and fair food (and food production) . We are working with the schools in the Winnebago County to bring edible gardens to all schools, beginning with the K-5 schools. GO helps design and build the initial raised garden beds, one for each grade K-5 for a total of six beds. At schools where the elementary and middle exist in the same building, the number of beds can be extended to incorporate the middle school grades levels.

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Bridges Charter School

We are a K-8 single-site charter school located in Thousand Oaks, California. Our charter is based on Whole Child education with an emphasis on healthy eating and sustainability. We have dedicated garden specialists and every classroom gets their own garden bed which they work on with the specialist.

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Jefferson Elementary

Norwalk Grows is a school garden program in Norwalk CT, installing edible gardens and providing garden education programs in Norwalk Public Schools.

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Shamrock Gardens

Shamrock Gardens' gardening program was started in the 2000's by parents in the community around the school. The program seeks to engage students in hands-on, outdoor learning, bridging curriculum taught in the classroom with lessons in the gardens. Students also receive lessons inside cooking up veggies raised outside, learning about the nutritional benefits of having a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

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New Franklin School Garden

Beginning with our kindergarteners in the spring (looking forward to the following fall), our students plant potatoes and pumpkins in order to pass those crops on to the incoming kindergarten class for future harvest. The incoming class of kindergarteners harvest the crops and enjoy mashed potatoes and pumpkin seeds that were the fruit of the labor of the previous class. In first grade, students will plant spring peas as the snows melt, and future plans include integrating our science weather unit (including air temperature, soil temperature, and rainfall) with graphing plant growth.