Academic Classrooms

Osborn School District

Established in 1879, the Osborn School District (OSD) is a high-achieving, urban public school district serving 3,000 students in downtown Phoenix, a city full of growth and opportunity. OSD has four elementary schools that feed into one middle school. We are enriched by students, parents and staff who are culturally and linguistically diverse, representing 46 countries and 36 languages. Our student population identifies as 65% Latino, 12% African American, 10% White, 7% Native American, 3% Asian and 3% two or more races.

Foodways at Nana Cardoon

Our programs draw from our own cultural histories while honoring connections with peasant farmers around the world.  We think of meals, produced from our farm by our students, as the binding elements of culture and our connection, throughg hands in the dirt, to agrarian cultures the world over, and to ourselves.  Our goal with students of all ages is the silence that settles in when a table full of eaters realizes they are tasting something from the garden, incrediblly delicious, fresh and nutritious, and that they had a hand in producing.

El Colegio de Panama School Gardening and Cooking Program

The El Colegio de Panamá health program is an initiative that includes the creation of a food garden as a classroom, cooking classes and the supervision of the school cafeteria. The school serves 1050 students all of which will be impacted by our health program.

The program development started on 2016 but it is now, at the beginning of Panama’s academic year (March 2017), that we will put all the ideas into action.

Columbia Falls Wildcat Garden

Columbia Falls is a small rural community located in the northern part of the Flathead Valley in Northwestern Montana, near the entrance to Glacier National Park. Our district consists of two elementary schools, one junior high school, and one high school serving approximately 1200 students.  Approximately 50% of our students qualify for Free and Reduced lunch.  I believe the percentage is actually much higher as our community workforce tends to be seasonal. 

Ventura Unified School District: Healthy Schools Project

The Ventura Unified School District Healthy Schools Project (HSP) is the education arm of Food and Nutrition Service's Farm to School Program.  The HSP equips students in 13 high need schools to develop a healthy relationship with whole, local fruits and vegetables through hands-on and standards-aliged cooking, nutrition, farm and garden education.  In collaboration with Education Services, the HSP integrates edible education with Common Core and Next Generation Science, so that these programs can be easily integrated into school and after-school programs.

Edible Spaces

Edible Spaces was born from a wide-eyed dream about a community of learners brought together in an environment that fosters conversation, curiosity, knowledge, and discovery. Our mission is simply to start the conversation about edible education in our schools and community. Starting with a Public Elementary School in Kitchener, Ontario, this program will begin by serving students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 through the implementation of an edible school garden. A first in the region.

Common Core Cooking and Gardening for the Next Generation

Common Core Cooking empowers educators to integrate food education by aligning instruction to academic standards. 

South Jackson Elementary: Scienhancement - Garden Based Science Lab

Scienhancement, Garden Based Science Lab, is a K-5 public school class that every students visits once a week.  The mission of Scienhancement is to give students garden based, experiential, hands on learning experiences from seed to mouth, while also encorporating the Georgia Science Standards.  Students are a part of our school garden every step of the way, including harvesting and eating the rewards.  Currently we have 24 raised beds, a greenhouse, and a 2800 sp. ft. field in which we hope to have in full production in the very near future.

Aleph Academy

Inspired by the Reggio approach, our school combines the arts, nature, Jewish values, and academic excellence to create a culture of learning and exploration.

St. Peter's Episcopal School

The St. Peter’s Garden was founded three years ago, after seeing amongst its students a lack of knowledge about how food is grown and the relationship between growing food and eating a healthful diet.  Our mission statement is to expose students to the benefits of growing and eating healthy food while applying the academic concepts they learn in their classroom through well integrated gardening lessons. The St.

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