Academic Classrooms

Akasa

 

M I S S I O N 

Hi, We’re AKASA. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides a diversified Wellness Curriculum to low-income communities in Los Angeles utilizing the tools of mindfulness, cooking and gardening to reconnect students and families with their bodies. 

V I S I O N 

The Charleston Area Children's Garden Project @ Youth Learning Institute, Clemson University

The Charleston Area Children's Garden Project (CACGP) guides and assists five Title 1 schools per year in the development of edible gardens as a performance & standards based school & community support, consisting of several hundred youth grades two through six. This is implemented through volunteer support and teacher/CACGP collaboration from construction to harvest with the purpose of promoting physically active and healthy lifestyles aiding in the prevention of chronic illness in children.

Growing Green with Urban Oaks Organic Farm

After school and summer program for 4th/5th graders, after school program for 2nd/3rdgraders.

Students learn fundamentals of urban vegetable farming/gardening from an award winning inner city organic production farm in New Britain CT.

 

Farm to Table New Mexico

Farm to Table's Farm to School program aims to connect children with agriculture, nature, healthy and local foods and their environment throughout New Mexico --making that critical link between children, youth, their families, agriculture, and the development of healthier eating habits.

Pathfinder Earth Project

The Earth Project (EP) is a collaboration between  our local non-profit Nature Consortium and Pathfinder K-8  that exists to foster environmental awareness and stweardship in our school community. One of the main ways this is done is through the Organic Garden Classroom where students participate in all aspects of food production. Another project of the EP is the school's Green Team, whose student members help other students to sort lunchroom waste, recycling, and compost properly.

Airport Heights Elementary School Farm to School Project

Airport Heights Elementary School has a school garden where they grow carrots, potatoes, and flowers in raised beds constructed by the students. The garden is tended by the Aiport Heights Garden Club, Marcy Jasper's 2nd grade class, and Summer Library students. Emily Becker's 5th/6th grade class has also worked with a local landscape architect, Johny Hayes from Bettisworth North, to design improvement projects for the school grounds.

Juan de Onate Elementary School Garden

Juan de Onate School garden is a garden set in a government subsidized housing unit on the Northside of Gallup, NM. The garden has been in existence for 5 years, but has struggled to become well established due to changing locations, vandalism, and inconsistent leadership. In the past two years the school garden has really flourished due to a few school champions and the help from FoodCorps service members. The garden now has regular visitors in the forms of whole classes, school staff, and community members.

Rotherfield Primary School

 Rotherfield Primary School in Islington, London is the second pilot program for Jamie's Kitchen Garden Project. The edible playground has been up and running for three years now, but September was the beginning of the full blown program including a new state of the art kitchen classroom.

Orford Primary Kitchen Garden Project

 In 2009 Jamie and his deputy Louise Holland visited the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation in Australia. Inspired by what they saw, Louise rallied support from charities and businesses to fund a pioneering purpose-built pilot project at Orford Primary School in Suffolk.

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