Academic Classrooms

Island Grown Schools

 Island Grown Schools is Martha's Vineyard Farm to School Program.  We work with almost every schoolage child on the island, from 2-18 years old, at all seven K-12 schools and at six island pre-schools.  We have installed and support gardens at all 13 of our partner schools, work with cafeteria staff to bring locally sourced meat and produce to school meals at every school, collaborate with classroom teachers to lead farm, gaden, and nutrition-based curriculum-tied lessons, and lead field trips to island family farms.  

ISD 287

 ISD 287 is an intermediate school district serving 12 school districts in Hennepin County, Minnesota. I work in the alternative schools. At South Education Center we applied for and were awarded a Bloomington Public Health SHIP grant to build 12 raised garden beds. I entered First Lady Michelle Obama's Recipes for Healthy Kids contest, which I found out about from Bloomington Public Health, and we won the Grand Prize in the nation for our Turkey Porcupine Slider Recipe. We serve a very diverse population of students.

Successful School Gardens

We are a University of Minnesota class that works with school gardens to advance plant science and horticulture with hands-on lessons provided by our university students.

Oscar Mayer Magnet School Garden Project

The Garden Project oversees a number of programs here Oscar Mayer Magnet School, a Chicago Public Elementary School in the heart of the city. We have started a lunchroom composting program, planted four award-winning gardens on school grounds (including a bio-diverse native Illinois garden in conjunction with DePaul University), we have six chickens living in a custom coop in front of the school and we just installed two beehives. Our school serves students ages 3 years old to the 8th grade and we have both the Montessori curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.

Edendale Food for Thought and Garden to Table

 Our programmes involve students between the ages of five and eleven years. Our junior students participate in the class teacher-led programme ‘Food for Thought’. Our older students participate in the NZ Garden to Table Trust’s programme where they have a cooking lesson with our kitchen specialist and a gardening lesson with our garden specialist once every fortnight. We have numerous edible gardens in the school, gardens which have food and flowers, an orchard and other fruit trees planted around the school. We also have a student-built greenhouse made of recycled plastic bottles.

Princeton School Gardens Cooperative

The Princeton School Gardens Cooperative is small 501c3 that works to increase food literacy in the public schools.

Mission: Fostering garden- and food-based education in the classroom, cafeteria and community.

Cochran Garden Project

Garden project for Cochran Elementary school in Louisville, KY. Growing healthy kids and a better community through gardening!

Kenmare High School

Kenmare High School The Mission of the Kenmare High School is to provide young adult women who have not completed a traditional high school program with the opportunity to obtain a high school education and diploma. This is accomplished through a variety of learning experiences designed to empower the women, frequently living in poverty, to become independent, self-directed individuals. As an alternative high school, Kenmare, a component of the York Street Project, fosters holistic learning as well as emotional and social support.

Tustin Memorial Academy's K-5 Farm and Garden

 TMA's farm and garden programs serve 700 elementary school aged children.  Math and science skills taught in class are enhanced in the garden through problem based, exploratory, hands-on learning.  TMA's math and science CST scores have improved every year since children began participating in garden programs in 2008.  

Each school year our chlidren get to participates in a minimum of three garden based programs; they visit the garden 1-2 hours per month and beg for more.  

Beit HaYeladim Preschool

Beit HaYeladim is a preschool serving children 18 months to 6 years of age.  Our garden grows food that the children love to eat straight out of the ground as well as harvest and cook together.  We also have a flourishing butterfly garden that attracts many monarch butterflies daily.

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