Academic Classrooms

Fresh Roots

Fresh Roots envisions a world where everyone has access to healthy food, land, and community. We cultivate engaging gardens and programs that catalyze healthy eating, ecological stewardship, and community celebration. Fresh Roots enact our mission through Schoolyard Market Gardens, educational farms where the food we grow is sold into the school community: into the cafeteria, food access programs, and to our neighbours.

Montessori Magnet at Moylan

We are a public Montessori school in the South End of Hartford, CT.  We currently have two campuses, with gardens at each campus.  Children at our school range in ages from 3 to 12.  At every level, they start seeds, maintain gardens, harvest and eat !  We are looking to expand our facilities within by 2016 to offer more garden and cooking opportunities within our school.  

Horace Mann Elementary School, (Mann Gardens), Washington DC

Horace Mann Elementary has has had a school garden for over 20 years, growing our curriculum out of our science program.  During this time our gardens have changed location many times but have continued to grow despite disruptions to physical locations. Today we utilize the gardens throughout our curriculum and have increased our focus on wellness and healthy eating. We are currently completing a two year building renovation but have continued gardening in our vegetable and native gardens.

Racine Carrée

Our mission is to design sustainable oriented programs based on school needs that develop student's entrepreneurship skills and promote higher education.

Cape Fear Farmacy

Vision: To create and sustain a community garden for the production of food for those hungry in body and a place of beauty for those hungry in spirit. The community gardens are an avenue for sharing gardening knowledge, promoting self-sufficiency, providing healthy and productive activities for our youth and fostering a greater sense of community in Wilmington and surrounding areas. Partnership with local businesses and nonprofit organizations will ensure growth and continuity of the gardens.

Roosevelt's Grilling Garden

We are teaching special education students how to grow and prepare their own vegetables at home for a healthier lifestyle. We have incorporated live-fire grilling as our main preparation method.

Garden Growers Group

The Garden Growers Group is an important part of the GSB Community Garden. A Garden Grower is a member of the GSB Community that is helping the garden to grow by sharing time to help with the garden. This may include planting, weeding, and harvesting. There are also tasks that do not require getting dirty hands in the garden.  This includes sorting and saving seeds, planning summer plantings, updating our log books, and keeping the GSB Community updated about what is happening in the garden.  Garden Growers will be able to share in the harvest by sharing their time to help the garden. 

Tower Garden

We purchased six Tower Gardens (one per grade level) for our elementary school.  The gardens were placed in one classroom at each grade level and the first planting was mid-January.  Each Tower holds 28 plants so each student planted their own seed (s).  The additional spots were for the teacher to plant what they wanted.  

Woodland Elementary Charter School

At Woodland, our new garden program brings together our students, teachers, parents and community members. We are working together to mange a large-scale garden. Woodland is a PreK-5th grade elementary school in Sandy Springs, Georgia. We are in the process of becoming STEM Certified. Our school gardening program fits perfectly into the curriculum for every grade level, ability and every subject. Gardening provides our students with amazing hands on learning opportunities and lessons they will carry with them for a lifetime. We are a center school for students with special needs.

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