Academic Classrooms

Growing Matters Garden Program (Fair Food Matters)

The Growing Matters Garden (a program of Fair Food Matters) provides garden-based, hands-on learning opportunities for local youth and the larger community. Our main focus is to support and coordinate activities at the Woodward Elementary School garden in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Joseph Sears School Outdoor Classroom

The Outdoor Classroom is an outdoor space for student exploration, inquiry, discovery and learning.  It is filled with native prairie, woodland flowers, butterfly garden and a rain garden. In addition, we have 4 raised vegetable beds, a low vegetable bed, Concord grape vineyard, blueberry, raspberry and strawberry bushes and places to sit, study and enjoy the garden. The outdoor classroom is maintained by students, staff, and parents. During summer months, family volunteers adopted a week to weed, harvest and maintain with the help of The Organic Gardener every Friday.

Pilot Light

Mission
Pilot Light’s mission is to support teachers in creating food-based classroom lessons that support children with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills they need to have healthy relationships with food. To do that, Pilot Light has developed a cohesive model for classroom food education, incorporating food as a lens for traditional subjects, such as Math, Reading, History, and Science in K-12 classrooms.

Pure Food Kids Foundation

Seattle chef, Kurt Beecher Dammeier, has long been concerned about the growing number of food additives in the food supply, as well as the misleading food packaging that was attracting his own children. To effect change, in 2006 he founded the Beecher’s Pure Food Kids Foundation. Our mission is to empower kids to make healthy food choices for life. We do this by providing free, learning standards aligned food education and cooking workshops to nearly 800 4th and 5th grade classrooms in the Seattle and New York City metro areas.

Ivy Tech Associate Accelerated Program & IPS #87 Garden Project

Ivy Tech’s ASAP Program and IPS school 87’s Garden Project is a space wherein students experience the origins of food and is a hub for collaborative learning.

FoodPrints at Tyler Elementary School

FoodPrints programs are now in 5 public schools in Washington, DC. The FoodPrints garden at Tyler Elementary is one of our newest, started in the spring of 2014 with a school garden grant from OSSE (DC's dept of education), generous support from FreshFarm Markets, and lots of help from the school community (students, staff, and parents).

Education Outside

Education Outside is cultivating the next generation of scientific thinkers and environmental stewards by introducing urban children to hands-on explorations in public school gardens.

We support a service corps of emerging leaders who work full-time at 37 of San Francisco’s public elementary schools to bring nature and science directly into the hands of 14,000 students each year.

Farm2Five

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties proposes to implement a farm to school program over two years to create new, robust farm to school projects in seven schools in our district.

Alachua Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Alachua County Public Schools seeks to increase the amount of locally produced foods served in school meals, and to expand nutrition and wellness curriculum through support from a Farm to School Planning Grant. In developing a comprehensive farm to school program, Alachua County Public Schools will focus on high need Title I elementary schools.

REAP Food Group Farm to School Program

REAP’s Farm to School program works with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) to bring fresh, nutritious, locally- and sustainably- grown food to children. The program teaches children about healthy eating and the environment, strengthens links between the classroom and the lunchroom, and helps establish a stable market for local farmers.

The following is a summary of our Farm to School work:

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