Academic Classrooms

The Walden School of Liberal Arts

At Walden we have an integrated writing and cooking program.  We explore local food production--farms, locavore restaurants, artisan cheese, salumi and chocolate makers, and home cooks who share their food heritage with students.  At school, we cook, host guest chefs and write recipes, poetry, essays, manifestos, and short stories about the food experiences.

We are currently building a new school and designing a classroom specifically for this program and hope to have an organic garden and chickens off the kitchen.

Sacramento COE Sustainable Environment Program

We are a public school program, run by Sacramento County Office of Education, serving youth with emotional and behavioral difficulties who cannot be served by their home schools/ districts.  A major part of our emphasis is to better prepare these students to move from school to the adult world.  One of our innovative programs is the "Sustainable Environments Academy", a grouping of high school students who help develop a school-based garden which supports our restaurant, our Farmer's Market, and our community service projects.

Spartan Garden

 The Maine - Endwell Spartan Garden was founded and formed by teachers, students in grades 3rd - 6th grade and their parents.  It is a donated lot near our school.  We have 1 year of experience and are planning to expand our space by doubling this summer.  We plant, weed, water, grow and pick all of the vegetables.  The veggis are then donated to all the families in need on our food pantry delivery route.  All of the familes on the food pantry delivery route have students within the district.  

Cooking with Kids, Inc.

Cooking with Kids motivates and empowers elementary school students to make healthy food choices. Through hands-on nutrition education activities, kindergarten through 6th grade students explore, prepare, and enjoy fresh, affordable foods from around the world. A 5th grader says it best: “Do you know what the passion of food is? It’s the way the food smells and tastes – it’s the food that I like!”

Grow Your Lunch

We offer program development services and materials tailored to the needs of educators, parents and administrators intending to build successful, curriculum and cafeteria - integrated garden programs

The Seven Circles Garden

The Seven Circles Garden is a 3/4 acre organic garden sustained and maintained by faculty, family, friends and students of the Meher Schools. The Garden is integrated into our regular academic day....all students have "garden" as part of their curriculum....including planting, growing, harvesting, snack preparation, garden math, garden art, nutrition. the garden project also partners with Futures Explored, a work place for developmentally disabled adults in Lafayette. 

Bellevue Edible Learning Laboratory

The BELL Garden exists to cultivate, guide, and encourage shared community values of healthy living and lifelong learning.
 
The BELL Garden supports this mission by providing practical learning opportunities for residents of the community in a setting that promotes physical activity, healthy eating, environmental stewardship, and multi-cultural connections for all generations.

CASTINGS, Hungry Owl Foundation and The Hilltop Garden Explorer Program

The Hilltop Garden Explorers program, based at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA, works to engage youths and families in an active learning environment through hands on gardening and ancillary cooking, community collaboration, leadership training, business experience, classroom training, recycling/composting and garden art.

Mamma Rainbow's Deep Roots Gardening Program, Courtesy of the Dunbar Family

  Mamma Rainbow's Deep Roots Gardening Program, courtesy of the Dunbar Family is part of the cosmic education program and outdoor learning curriculum at Hilltop Montessori School in Birmingham, Alabama. The school is located in a LEED certified green school that boasts approximately 6 acres of outdoor learning environments including organic gardening, a working beehive and native plant trails. The school's outdoor environments are certified with the National Wildlife Federation and the school is accredited by AdvancED, SACS and SAIS.

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