Academic Classrooms

North Carolina Cooperative Extension of Warren County

 North Carolina Cooperative Extension partners with communities to deliver education and technology that enrich the lives, land and economy of North Carolinians.

Our FoodCorps Service Member, Horticulture Agent, 4-H Agent, and Extended Food and Nutrition Education Progammer (EFNEP), all work to provide nutrition education to children through school gardens. Our team has used gardens for programming at South Warren Elementary School, Mariam Boyd Elementary School, and Warren County High School. 

Mariam Boyd Elementary School Garden

 Students benefit from our school garden in the classroom and after school. First and fourth grade students use the garden through every stage to grow plants and use the produce for classroom cooking. Our fifth graders also tend the garden every other week with Culinary Club. This after school club exposes students to where food comes from, how to grow their own food, and how to prepare complex dishes.

Snipes Academy School Garden

The Snipes Academy School Garden program revolves around teaching our students about fruits and vegetables and improving their access to healthy food. Our program benefits third graders, who are instructed in the garden by their teachers and FoodCorps Service Member. Our lessons focus on North Carolina Science Standards: soil type and composition, parts of the plant, plant needs and nutrition.

Rachel Freeman Elementary School Garden

The Rachel Freeman Elementary School garden program is focused on introducing and improving students' access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Our program currently benefits primarily third grade students, who learn about gardening, science and nutrition from their teachers and FoodCorps Service Member. Students also engage in a bi-weekly Garden Lunch Bunch, where three students from each class are rewarded with eating lunch in the garden.

 

Supply Elementary School Garden

The goals of the Supply Elementary School Garden program are to teach children about nutrition, science and gardening. Our third graders benefit from instruction in the garden from their teachers and FoodCorps Service Member. Our lessons are centered around North Carolina Science standards: soil type and composition, parts of the plant, plant needs and nutrition. Students in other grades benefit from the garden during health class and during our 4-H Junior Master Gardener after-school club.

Lincoln Elementary School Garden

The Lincoln Elementary School Garden program centers around teaching children about nutrition, science and gardening. Teachers and the FoodCorps Service Member focus on teaching students about soil composition, parts of the plant, plant needs, and nutrition. Our program benefits third graders, however, we also have an after-school 4-H Junior Master Gardener Club.

Hyalite Elementary School Garden Program

Hyalite Elementary School has a robust garden of 7 raised beds, amounting to over 700 square feet of garden space! We use the gardens to grow flowers, herbs and produce to educate our Pre-K through 5th-grade students about how to grow food, provide the opportunity to try new foods and know where healthy food comes from! We also have a greenhouse and edible landscaping as part of our schoolyard environment.

West High School Garden (Waterloo FoodCorps)

A high school garden and garden club were established in 2012. There is in-class education as well. Produce from this garden is given to the culinary programs and donated to the Food Bank. 

Lowell Elementary (Waterloo FoodCorps)

 People's Garden Grant installed a garden here in spring 2012. In conjunction with this garden, there are classes on gardening and cooking with garden produce.

Wings Park Elementary Garden

 Wings Park Elementary installed several vegetables raised beds the Summer of 2012.  Students in grades 2-5 plant, tend, and harvest these vegetables.  Produce is used in the annual Oelwein Harvest Fest.

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