Academic Classrooms

Martha's Vineyard Island Educators

We are a group of educators, cafeteria managers and farmers working together on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, to bring garden education into every classroom.

Richmond High School Urban Agriculture

We are an underfunded high school program teaching our students about growing food locally, sustainability, health, and mindfulness.

Dover High School & Community Garden

The Dover High School and Community Garden functions as an outdoor classroom for students enrolled in an Intro to Life Science class at Dover High School and Career Technical Center in Dover, New Hampshire. Students enrolled during the spring semester learn to plan a spring vegetable garden, start seeds indoors and outdoors, water, weed, mulch, and harvest spring crops. Students enrolled during the fall semester learn to plan a fall vegetable garden, start seeds outdoors, water, weed, harvest late summer and fall crops, and "put a garden to bed" for the winter.

Hills School Garden

The Hills School Garden is currently 1800 square feet, and is laid out in a compound keyholedesign to maximize growing space.  Various aspects of permaculture practice, such as no-till gardening, companion planting, and composting are being employed to increase soil health and plant fertility.

Teaching Biology with Aquaponics

Using aquaponics to teach biology course content. Each of my classes will be designing and constucting a desktop aquaponic system to grow their own food. I also have a 230 gallon Nelson and Pade F5 greenhouse system that the kids use to experiment with and grow various kids of produce.

With a new high school construction project in the works I want to expand this idea to producing food for our cafeteria.

The Owls' Nest Too: Altadore School & Community Edible Garden

The Owls' Nest Too is a working edible schoolyard and pilot initiative for developing edible education practise and curriculum in our school board.   

Our volunteer-managed garden and programming serves our 360+ elementary school students and teachers in a format that actively engages community support gardeners, volunteers and the public at large.

Our Mission: “growing some awesome together”

REAL School Gardens

REAL School Gardens Creates Learning Gardens That Grow Successful Students. For a teacher, a garden is more than a beautiful place or a veggie patch. It is a powerful learning tool, as critical to a student’s academic success as a computer or a microscope.

How Does it Grow?

How Does it Grow? is the first online hub for teaching agricultural literacy to ages 12 through adulthood through the power of storytelling.

By creating broadcast-quality videos and other free, multi-platform tools, our goal is to reconnect people with how their food grows in order to inspire greater connection with — and demand for — whole, natural foods.

Within the release of just the first few episodes of the "How Does it Grow?" web series, our videos quickly clocked over 100,000 plays.

Minnesota Food Association

The mission of Minnesota Food Association (MFA) is to build a sustainable food system based on social, economic and environmental justice through education, training and partnerships.

We envision a community where:
• All people who desire to farm have the tools, knowledge, skills and access to resources necessary to be successful farmers.
• Organic and sustainable agricultural principles and practices are embraced and supported by both producers and consumers.
• All people eat organic, sustainably and locally produced food.

Teaching Teachers

We are piloting a curriculum for FET teachers as part of our Bachelors of Education Degree at the University of Johannesburg. The programme will be linked to community engagement through the module for Hospitality Studies (3rd year). Our third year students will manage and mentor a group of 1st year Bachelor of Education students through 3 'edible gardens' that will be developed and sustained at local schools where they will be doing their teaching pracicals in January 2015 and again in Sept 2015.

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