Academic Classrooms

The HAPPY Organization Inc

At the HAPPY Org., we believe in our mission and take our values seriously. They serve as a basis for everything we do and define our organizations’ culture – a culture characterized by an extraordinary sense of purpose and youth leadership.

Our Work

The HAPPY Organization inspires generations of healthy, active, positive, purposeful youth by giving them direct and positive experiences with healthy food, nutrition education, fun physical activities, and social and emotional activities.

Our Mission

West Melbourne School For Science

At WMSS we offer gardening on the activity wheel.  Students receive gardening and nutrition lessons weekly.  We let 4-6 grade students choose their activity on Mondays and Tuesday's for extra gardening.  In the program, we plant seasonal vegetables and harvest when ready.  We give harvest to staff to make salads, salsa, smoothies and other healthy snacks for students and staff to enjoy.  We plan to extend out to our community in the near future through farmers markets where WMSS student gardeners supply the produce.

Renaissance High School Farm and Garden Program

Renaissance High School (RHS) Farm and Garden Program is a dynamic learning environment where students experiment growing their own vegetables, fruit and flowers in both an outdoor and greenhouse setting. We strive to teach horticulture and agronomic skill sets through an active hands on farm curriculum as well as a rigorous academic classroom component.

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.

Detroit Achievement Academy

We are an elementary school on the northwest side of Detroit that currently serves 105 students between the ages of 5-10. Since opening our doors, we have been the highest performing primary school in the city, with our students’ academic growth in the 99th percentile nationally. As a school we exist to holistically support the education and development of students who have the determination, drive, and skills to shape their own path of high achievement with the ultimate goal of creating civically engaged, joyful citizens who are ready to change the world.

Moberly Middle School Garden

This is Moberly's first foray into gardening. Many of our student (59%) are free/reduced students and received weekend buddy backpacks to take home. This garden will start with 5 4X4 raised beds which will grow cool weather vegetables and herbs to be used in our Family and Consumer Sciences class and at lunch. We have purchased a dehydrator to prolong the life of the herbs. We have an approximate 70 percent white, 10 percent Asian and Hisplanic and 20 percent African population grades 6-8. We have not created a mission statement yet.

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.”

pleasantville edible school gardens

Pleasantville gardens serve the elementary, middle and high school. Students grow, harvest and eat the crops. Healthy eating and good nutrition is taught. 

Hellstern Middle School

FoodCorps service members help run Hellstern Middle School's community garden. The Hellstern garden provides opportunities for hands-on learning and skill building for the students as well as a living classroom for garden-based math and language arts classes. In addition, it provides fresh fruits and vegetables for the Hellstern cafeteria and a student-run farmers market. 

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