Academic Classrooms

The mission of the Butternut Community Preschool is to promote a child’s natural love of learning. This mission is accomplished through an emergent curriculum guided by the interests of the children, but designed to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for their future academic success. Projects are designed to encourage the children to collaborate, discuss and ask questions.

 The educational gardens at both Live Oak and Del Mar Elementary schools, located in the Live Oak area of Santa Cruz, provide K-5 students an outdoor curriculum-based garden experience. Students learn various components of the organic garden experience, including vermicomposting, seed germination, and water cycles. The garden program is based upon the concept of age appropriate hands-on learning. It attempts to provide a holistic approach to healthy food systems and experiential knowledge of the food-based natural world.

Orlando Junior Academy is a Christian, Seventh-day Adventist school located in the neighborhood of College Park in Orlando, Florida.  Our school garden's purpose is to extend the students' curriculum beyond the classroom to the outdoors where the natural world becomes the textbook.  Our nutritional science lab also challenges the typical classroom setting by integrating math and science into the cultural appreciation of nutritious and delicious food. These venues provide our students with experiences that are inspiring and engaging, experiences that require critical thinking skills, discipl

The Edible Schoolyard Program at Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa, enriches the education of our students by introducing them to gardening, composting, seed saving and the tasting of new vegetables and herbs. Our facilities include a large greenhouse, butterfly garden, courtyard orchard and a Nature Explore classroom. This year, we added an outdoor garden to help supply our newly completed teaching kitchen with fresh produce.