Academic Classrooms

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is growing a food revolution from the ground up! Our key vision is pleasurable food education – skills for learning, skills for life.

We are changing the way children approach and think about food. All around the country, children are enthusiastically getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal food.

Sustainable Love from Development

Sustainable Love is dedicated to educating children about foods and nutrition by offering healthy foods at meal times, providing education materials about the foods being served, helping students create a garden and guiding children in preparing healthy snacks.

Our pilot project is taking place at Peaceful Valley Montessori Academy in Golden Valley. We've succeeded in providing healthy, naturally delicious meals. The garden and educational program was started and May and is coming along slowly, but we keep working to succeed.

Northern Valley Regional @ Demarest Organic Garden

Our high school is situated in the middle of the Northern New Jersey suburbs, far removed from the farms that used to service the New York metropolitan area.  We currently have a 2500 square foot garden that we use to grow a multitude of vegetables and flowers.  Our support staff includes one teacher of culinary arts (this writer), interested staff,  a group of 25 dedicated students, and members of the Korean Parent association.

Northpoint Elementary School

The Northpoint Unity Garden and Monarch Waystation is a one-year old program that was created to revamp an used outdoor space.  It resides in an interior courtyard at an elementary school and is home to a vegetable and herb garden, feathered friends and a newly created Monarch Waystation.  We believe in partnering with community organizations to tap into areas of expertise to best educate our youth in grades K-5.

Garden of Learning

Garden of Learning is an award winning program that allows schools to start and sustain a successful academic garden program. It includes 10 CDs with materials to help you initiate, implement and sustain a successful school garden program:

The Garden System - A system for starting and sustaining elementary school garden programs.

Fresh from the Farm

Children who learn to understand and appreciate the source and nature of their food are laying

CitySprouts

CitySprouts is a school and community program that integrates academic, health and environmental education in the public schools and in the neighborhood. Working closely with school administrators, teachers and families, CitySprouts creates school gardens and provides essential support to schools as they extend existing curricula to these outdoor classrooms. CitySprouts’ school and community partnerships ensure that CitySprouts gardens are accessible to children during school, after school and in the summer.

Hamilton Harvest Club

 Mission Statement: The Hamilton School Garden creates an environment where our families and our community grow and learn.

Vision: Through hands on education we can teach healthy living while making practical connections to the core curriculum.

Theme: Grow and Learn!

The Giving Garden

The Prairie School's Giving Garden, created by and for the students in 2000, is located in a courtyard setting and has two separate sections. One half of the garden is a butterfly garden and was designed and planted with perennials that attract butterflies and blooms spring through fall. Annuals are added to large pots throughout the garden to help extend the bloom time. Prairie's Giving Garden has been certified as a Monarch Waystation through Monarch Watch by meeting the group's requirements of adequate milkweed, nectar, and shelter.

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