Business

Old School Farm

Nestled within the heart of Bells Bend, ten minutes outside of Nashville, lies a new, unique non-profit dedicated to producing quality farm-to-table food while providing employment for individuals that have intellectual disabilities. Old School Farm was founded in 2013 on the belief that creating a sustainable farm can also produce sustainable jobs while giving back to the community at large. It is our hope that Old School Farm will become a model site where you will find individuals of all abilities working side by side.

Ready-to-Grow Gardens

Ready-to-Grow Gardens is an edible garden company that specializes in helping others grow organic vegetables, herbs and fruit all year in Miami/South Florida.

We help others grow food as locally as possible by designing, installing and maintaining edible gardens for homes, schools, restaurants, offices, and public spaces.

We also provide a wide range of  supplies one might need for your garden, including compost, organic fertilizer, mulch, and an excellent selection of  fruit, vegetable, and herb plants.

Rockin' Gardens Raised Bed Gardens

We build complete Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens to help Kids, Families, and Schools get a great start to growing their own food! 

My husband and I live in Seacoast NH and have been doing landscaping and garden design for over 10 years.  This year we extended our businesses to include complete Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens for homeowners and schools.  Please check out our new website, and if you know anyone looking to install a new garden, please share our info.  Thank you!

Sherwood Montessori Garden-Kitchen Program

Sherwood Montessori's core values and mission are consistent with Dr. Maria Montessori's method of educating the whole child, while fostering a learning environment conducive to improving quality of life both locally and globally, maximizing each child's potential through ecological consciousness, mentor-mentee based teamwork and other life skills modalities. Dr.

Learning through gardening

'Value creating gardening' is in the initial research phase. Deeply inspired by Japanese educator, "Tsunesaburo Makiguchi's' theory of value creation I came across the Makiguchi project in action that was implemented in Brazil. This program dealt with using gardening as a tool for teaching academic subjects to students. 

The mission of this program would be to introduce the concept of slow food and enable a natural learning for all students in urban & rural India. We will start with the urban context first. 

Patagonia Cafe

 

Patagonia is a clothing company that strives to "Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis."  At the corporate headquarters, we strive to achieve this mission throughout all departnments, including the Cafe and Childcare programs.  

Greenock Elementary School Garden

Chris Estadt and Gail Fleckenstein, teachers at Greenock Elementary School, started the garden in 2012 with funds provided by the Parent Teacher Organization. All teachers throughout the school year along with a summer program teach classes. Our school, which houses kindergarten through second grade, benefits from the garden by aligning common core standards and food literacy into the school environment. Students work in the garden, from planning to planting, and from harvest to table.

Cindy's garden to Table

Cindy's Garden to Table is a business interested in educating youth and adults about the importance of nutrition and health for the family and individual. Cindy's mission is to educate children and adults about the importance of diet to their overall health. By eating a whole foods plant-based diet we can heal our bodies and achieve optimal health. By teaching a love of organic gardening and cooking that uses fresh, seasonal ingredients, we can learn to enjoy our food choices, and heal our bodies and our planet.

New Heights in Learning

New Heights in Learning creates hands-on, real-world learning environments in a wide range of settings. Our model of learning is centered on motivating and engaging both achieving and underachieving students by connecting meaningful hands-on learning experiences to classroom activities and state standards. This is done by connecting education to the context of real world experiences.

Garden of Hope

The Garden of Hope  is a side project of the School of Hope located in Jocotenango, Guatemala. The School of Hope is run by the Education for the Children Foundation, an international NGO that provides a quality eduacation and variety of wrap-around services for over 500 underprivildged children in the community of Jocotenango (more information http://www.eftc.org.uk/).  Children at the School of Hope come from a variety of compromised and underpriviledged backgrounds.

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