Academic Classrooms

Green Thumb Challenge

GEF is calling on schools and groups to join the largest youth gardening initiative! <br><br>

What's Growin' On

What's Growin' On? is an organic garden created from an overgrown, unused courtyard.   While originally used by the seventh grade life science classes to grow organic vegetables and offer a haven for pollinators with geometrically designed perennial beds, it has grown into a school wide resource.

Chase Avenue Elementary School Garden Club

When trying to take care of our garden during the school day became too difficult, I decided to see if there was interest in an after-school Garden Club.  Last year, I had forty 4th and 5th graders who came after school to work in our school gardens.  We made cole slaw with our cabbage, sampled various kinds of lettuce dipped in ranch dressing, made wind chimes, coffee filter butterflies, and made a vermicomposting bin that we fed with compostable items students collected after lunch time.  This year, with the help of my husband (a hydroponics store owner), we opened after school garden clu

Ohlone Elementary School Farm

One of the cornerstones of the developmentally based education at Ohlone Elementary School is the Ohlone Farm, which provides a place where children can interact with and learn about nature. A physical embodiment of Ohlone's Core Values, the Farm helps foster an awareness of the environment, nurturing and caring of animals, cooperative learning, social interactions between children of differing grades and respect for living organisms.

UVM Farmer Training Program

The UVM Farmer Training Program is a 6-month intensive program (May 2 -October 31, 2012) for aspiring farmers and food systems advocates that provides a hands-on, skill-based education in sustainable agriculture. This full-time program offers participants the unique opportunity to manage their own growing site, take classes from professors and expert farmers, and rotate as workers and learners on successful, diverse farms in the Burlington area.

Children's Enrichment Center

We are a learning center serving children ages 3 - 11 both full day programs for early learners and after school enrichment for ages 6 - 11. We want to start our own garden and have a space of 30 x 50.

Hamlin Street Elementary Garden Club

We are a suburban, public school of approximately 400 students.  We are located in West Hills, California.  Our garden consists of 8 raised beds with a pergola and some grape vines.  We are currently growing organic vegetables and have a few fruit trees.  Our hope is to expand our garden to include espallied fruit trees.  It's good to dream!

 

Leaves for Learning

Leaves for Learning is a program fueled by our students wanting academics taken outside the walls of a classroom.  They used an abandoned frog pond, already on our campus,  as the spring board for what it has turned into today.  Today we have several vegetable raised beds, flowers beds, herb gardens, rain barrels, composting drums, a watershed to study, a cedar glade (indigenous to our area), Van Gogh Garden (sunflowers), and much more.  We are so eager to learn as much curriculum outside as possible.  It is a great sanctuary to read, study wildlife, and plant life.  We are truly blessed to

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