Academic Classrooms

Farm Table - All Local and Seasonal Cooking on the Farm

New Earth Farm is a nonprofit, working, sustainable and educational 21 acre farm growing high quality, unique heirloom produce, pasture raised duck and chicken eggs, pasture raised sheep, lamb and more. 

Seeds to Table

To create a successful substainable garden using organic methods while incorporating access standards and life skills. 

WHS Learn+Play Gardens (Wm. Hammerschmidt Elementary School)

Project Mission

The mission is to create a progressive landscape that includes updated play equipment, outdoor classroom zones including an Edible Garden, hardscape for recreation, and green space for active recreational sports as well as passive recreation and conservation opportunities to serve WHS students, neighborhood families and the greater Lombard community. Together, we are working to transform an ordinary schoolyard into a dynamic center for learning, health and fitness, conservation and community.

 

Carver's Produce Edible Schoolyard

The life of George Washington Carver will always be remembered through his contributions to humanity, agriculture, and our environment. He left behind a selfless legacy to guide future generations into greater heights. Father Carver, as we affectingly call him, had a passion for teaching his students and taking them “into the field” for research at Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee University). 

New Horizon Peace Garden

The vision for a New Horizon School Peace Garden at its middle school campus grew out of a desire to develop a space that will enrich our students’ learning with the establishment of an environmental education program and serve as a place to sow seeds of peace and understanding through community building. The school’s diverse student body hails from all around the world including Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Our core goals for the Peace Garden’s 6,480 foot space are:

Suisun Valley Garden

Suisun Valley is a rural K-8 school of approximately 520 students located in a prime agricultural area of Suisun Valley. Approximately 60% of our students come from outside our attendance area, attending our school as a school-of-choice option or NCLB choice from underperforming schools. The school has developed a reputation for being a small nurturing school and instructionally demanding environment.

Valley Academy Charter School

We are Desert Hive Food Forests, a Non-profit organization operating in the far Southwestern corner of Utah! We are currently working on a school garden overhaul with Valley Academy Charter School a Kindergarten through 7th grade school serving about 350 students in a rural desert community. We believe strongly that schools provide the perfect platform for community centered agriculture and believe that outdoor garden classrooms that serve the children, the cafeteria, and the community, are a necessary addition to our current curriculum standards.

Calpella School Garden

Calpella School Garden was established in 1999 and the beloved Grandpa Julio was the garden educator until this year when he retired and our funding for a position was eliminated.  The school garden serves over 480 students in K-4th grades.  We grow seasonal food for students to taste test.

Havens School

 Elementary school garden

Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School

Tucked away in the hills above San Luis Obispo is Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School, a natural preserve, a school campus, and an extraordinary learning resource. Here, on 250 protected acres, students literally reach out and touch the natural world and explore their place within it. Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School provides hands-on learning opportunities for students to study science and ecology in a natural setting. It is outdoor education at its very best and we have been providing it for over 40 years.

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