Academic Classrooms

Positively Food: Shanahan Middle School Green Project

Shanahan Middle School, in the heart of Ohio, is the setting for raised garden beds, an outdoor classroom, and a sizable greenhouse. On two separate occssions, I have planned and implemented two school-wide wellness initiatives. The focus of the wellness initiatives have been to empower students to choose real food over processed foods through garden-based learning. Each month, during a specified time, every student was engaged in identifying the ingredients in processed foods and the possible harmful health effects of artificial ingredients, colorings, and perservatives.

Community School of Excellence Edible Schoolyard

Community School of Excellence (CSE) is a public charter school that serves approximately 1,000 students in grades K-8. The school embraces and celebrates the Hmong culture through intercultural understanding and respect. CSE partners with Spark-Y (http://spark-y.org/) - empowering youth through action-oriented labs focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship - and the Design & InnoVation Lab’s CHEW program - Cook Healthy; Eat Well.

Garden Hills Elementary

We grow community around school gardens by providing technical assistance, resources and partnerships to cultivate the next generation of healthy eaters of good, clean and fair food.

The Carey School

Our School was founded in 1928, but our garden and farm began this Fall.

We had several families install raised beds and planter boxes.  Every day children tend the garden and play in the natural play yard.

st. francis school

I am the garden coordinator at a small independant school, St. Francis, in Goshen, KY.  It sits on 64 acres.  When I started, the school had 2 failed attemps with school gardens and an empty green house.  I have been there a year, part time, and have 6 raised beds with year round growing capabilities, a 350 sq. ft. in ground garden, 5 indoor vermacompost  and one in ground vermacompost.  We incubated eggs and have those chickens and 2 angora rabbits!  The kids have built me a chicken tractor and helped build the in ground vermacompost.  I teach part of their healthy choices class.

Nenana School District 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program

The Nenana School District 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program is dedicated to providing quality after school programs to enhance school curriculum and improve academic performance and provide students with the tools they need to be successful in life.  We teach sustainable, healthy living skills as well as practical life skills.

Valleybound - School and Community Garden

Valleybound is an empowering educational space that promotes healthy living practices through local agriculture, conservation and sustainability. School and community gardens have succeeded in various cities around the San Luis Valley including Saguache, Del Norte and Alamosa. These gardens have provided their citizens with a way to reconnect with their roots, all the while sustaining a dialogue centered on healthy lifestyles.

Kindred Spirits Care Farm

At Kindred Spirits Care Farm, our mission is to promote compassion, cooperation and connection with the earth, animals and each other. Our current project is on a continuation high school for at-risk kids and already has a farm set up on the property.  The staff is extraordinary, dedicated and excited about the benefits that Kindred Spirits Care Farm can bring to their kids.  The kids themselves love their farm and are inspired to make it a thriving, sustainable, permaculture oasis.

Playa del Rey Elementary School Garden

The school garden is an extension of the classroom. Students are able to apply concepts learned in the classroom to real-world experiences in the garden. The garden is used for math, science, art, reading and language arts, and of course gardening. Gardening is integrated into cirriuclum and an enrichment component. The permaculture based management of the garden allows students to investigate the multiple systems co-existing within it. This encourages students to comprehend the larger intersectional relationships between subjects, skills and community in an exciting way. 

Growing Green Kids

GROWING GREEN KIDS  An enrichment program providing garden-enhanced nutrition education in a fun and active learning environment! Kids connect with nature and food as both gardeners and cooks in these action-oriented, child-centered classes and workshops. 

 

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