Academic Classrooms

LIFT - Levantate

LIFT - Levántate is a non-profit that provides wellness resources to low-income communities through workshops; events; and before, in and after school programs that encourage healthy life choices through nutrition, cooking, gardening, physical activity and lifeskills education, hands-on. We are an organization “without walls,” meaning that our programs are multi-lingual, multi-cultural, 100% free of fees for all participants, and, above all, are tailored to meet the varying needs of the community.

Pizza Garden

This garden will be created to provide ingredients for tomato sauce to be used by the Food Services team at the South Hadley School System. The location of the garden is the Town Farm. Our project is a pilot and not yet approved by the school. Students and administrators along with the Youth Commissioner are assisting in the development of the garden and the program. We begin planting at the end of April and could use all the support we can get. South Hadley is a town traumatized by a teen suicide several years ago.

Jonathan Dayton Botany School Garden

Botany is a one semester elective at our suburban high school.  Creating awareness of how food is grown locally and globally is the emphasis of this unit of study.  With our short spring growing season, we have started our seedlings in containers in the classroom. When weather permits plants will be moved to our courtyard garden space.

Fern Creek Elementary School

Fern Creek Elementary School is a Title 1 school located in Orlando, FL.  The school has a population of approximately 330 students, with 85% of students on the free/reduced lunch program and 20% of the population considered homeless.  The school takes every elementary school student currently living at the Coalition for the Homeless.  We have 10 raised bed gardens on campus which are currently planted by our 1st graders, 2nd graders and 5th graders.  We're growing tomatoes, watermelons, pumpkins, peppers, bok choy, carrots, beans, strawberries, celery, herbs and flowers.  The teachers inco

Driftwood Middle School Environmental Wellness Garden

At Driftwood Middle School Academy of Health and Wellness, we are committed to teaching students how to lead healthier lives.  Our Environmental Wellness elective class teaches students how we afffect the health of the environment and how the environment affects our health.  We have six beds of vegetables and eighteen stacks of hydroponics.  We grow radishes, green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, strawberries, collard greens, black eyed peas, cucumbers, and carrots.  Our elective classes rotate every nine weeks, so by the end of the school year, almost 600 children will be more knowledgeable

Green Bronx Machine

Green Bronx Machine was born of the belief that we are all AMER-I-CANS! Together, we can grow, re-use resource and recycle our way into new and healthy ways of living; complete with self sustaining local economic engines. Inclusively and collectively, each and every member of our society offers a unique perspective with unlimited potential. Together, we can move those who are "apart from" society to become "part of" the driving force behind new solutions benefiting all of us.

Lockeland School Garden

The Lockeland Design Center garden will be comprised of three connected areas: a raised bed food production area, a butterfly garden area, and a school classroom area. The garden is to be located in the back of the school, just outside the cafeteria. This area was chosen for both it’s proximity to an existing water source, and for security as it located within a fenced area.

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