Academic Classrooms

Recipe for Success Foundation

Recipe for Success Foundation's Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ has taught over 16,000 Houston elementary children how to grow, harvest, and cook their own healthy food. A growing list of 80 high-profile Houston chefs volunteer their time to help. The only initiative in the country of it's scope, the RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program introduces children to the entire cycle of food along with taste and flavor combinations, techniques, and skills that will serve them for a lifetime, and empowers them to prepare healthy meals and snacks for themselves.

Carlton Landing Academy

Carlton Landing Academy is a new public magnet school located in Carlton Landing on the shores of Lake Eufaula in eastern Oklahoma. Students are able to grow veggies, pick berries and raise chickens in the community garden - just across the street from the school buildings.

Poe Community Garden Project

We would like to start an organic vegetable garden at our school, Poe Elementary, this fall. Second Graders would be planting, tending and harvesting it.We want to start it in the fall to help build a sense of community , an awareness of health issues, and a sense of individual responsibility in our students.  We also plan on using this as a classroom, incorporating lessons from all content areas. 

I hope your organization can help guide us in our endeavor.

 

Sincerely,

Shawn Gray,

2nd Grade teacher

Poe Elementary, Houston, TX

Edible School Garden Designs

As a cookbook author and kitchen garden designer, I see opportunities for schools to create beautiful gardens that go beyond growing basic food. I work with school gardeners who seek creative ways to build edible garden areas to invite the whole school community to spend time outdoors connecting to the food that is grown miraculously from a small seed.
 

Powell GT Elementary Community Courtyard Gardens

The Powell GT Magnet gardens and outdoor classrooms are educational spaces and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education. We have partnered with Sixth Sun (www.sixthsun.co) and NCSU landscape design department to design and build gardens and outdoor classrooms at our elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Eventually our outdoor courtyard space will also have a rain garden, pollinator gardens and an outdoor stage for theatrical productions and concerts.

Center Montessori School Garden

Center Montessori has had a school garden cultivated organically for almost 20 years. Currently we have 8 raised beds and numerous earth boxes and container garden boxes throughout the school. Our growing season is from October to June so we have ample time to grow seedlings in our greenhouse, plant our Fall and Spring gardens, and harvest organic vegetables. Students prepare food at different times as vegetables mature. We make things like tomato salsa, brocolli egg scramble, cabbage slaw, mixed green salad, herbed citrus vinaigrette, and much more.

FHP EATS engagement in agricultural tasting and scholarship

 Aquaponics Community Garden cultivated by the Agriscience and Biotechnology Academy at Frank H. Peterson in Duval County. The initiative will also include vertical gardens to add beauty and functionality to food in your close vicinity, shaping the school, students, and community! Please join us as we change the Worl through impacting our students in more healthful, compassionate and environmentally friendly ways.

 

Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts

 We are the first Elementary Charter School in the State of Virginia!  Our integrated curriculum has a large focus on our outdoor classroom and school gardens (orchard, vegetable garden, butterfly/history bayscape, rain garden and forest woodland.)  We are currently growing food to supplement our school lunch program (we do not accept federal funds therefore are able to serve more nutritious options.)  We have a wonderful partner in our community who ran a successful CSA that has installed grow boxes on our grounds, with plans for a greenhouse classroom!

Common Threads - Los Angeles

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

Common Threads - Washington D.C.

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

Mission
The mission of Common Threads is to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking.

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