Farm Based

Grow to Learn and Governors Island Teaching Garden

As part of GrowNYC’s Greening department, both Grow to Learn and the Governors Island Teaching Garden aim to use urban gardens as a space for exploration, experiential learning and community building. Grow to Learn is the citywide school gardens initiative for New York City. We work with public and charter schools to ensure that gardens are sustainable teaching resources in the long term, responsive to each individual community’s vision and needs, and transformative for student learning in the cafeteria, classroom, and beyond.

Seattle Parks & Recreation's Urban Food Systems Program

Seattle Parks & Recreation’s mission is to provide welcoming and safe opportunities to play, learn, contemplate & build community, and promote responsible stewardship of the land. The Urban Food Systems Program’s core value is to be a learning organization that creates opportunities for the most-impacted communities to equitably and powerfully engage with local, sustainable food systems. Good Food Gardens serve communities with significant Southeast Asian, East African, African American, and Latino populations in central and south Seattle.

Green City Market

The mission of Green City Market is to improve the availability of a diverse range of high quality foods through connecting local producers and farmers to chefs, food organizations, and the greater Chicagoland community.  Green City Market achieves this mission by supporting small family farms and through providing education to adults and children about local, fresh, sustainably raised produce and products. Green City Market aims to create a sustainable food system in Chicago through our markets, outreach, and educational programming.

The Patachou Foundation

The Patachou Foundation feeds wholesome meals to food-insecure school children in our community and teaches them to create healthy habits. 

High Tech High Media Arts Community Garden

Seniors in 12th grade Environmental Science are the caretakers of the High Tech High Media Arts (HTHMA) Community Garden, a 5000 square foot garden and orchard space. Each semester, students embark on projects that both develop and maintain this space as a community resource and local model of sustainability, all the while growing food with purpose. We have developed a pilot CSA and Farmers' Market program, and are working with our school and local community to move toward zero waste. 

Crane School

We have three gardens on our campus: the upper garden classroom beds and chicken coop, the lower garden- a traditional garden plot, and the Crane Country Farm- a hydroponic garden, designed with the goal that they serve as a collection of outdoor classrooms to teach our students an appreciation of nature, put the fundamentals of the scientific method in to practice and encourgage healthy food choices. 

Montessori Gardens

II have launched several seed to table programs in New York and New Jersey Montessori schools. I plan to have a classroom start in August I have acess to an organic community garden that I will start planting with students.

Our goal is to work in a Montessori environment that incorporates all aspects of life.Planning,planting,tending,harvesting and prepairing meals from our garden to introduce children(and community) to delicious and nutricious local organic foods are life long skills that start at an early age.

Apple Seeds

Apple Seeds is a non-profit whose mission is to get students excited about fruits and vegetables through garden nutrition education. 

We have a farm where we host common-core aligned field trips and farm to table events with students. 

On our farm we grow produce for our school farmer's markets, which are a cheap access point to fresh food and a great learning opportunity. Our produce is also sold to Fayetteville Public Schools' Seed to Student Program. 

Mollen Foundation-Garfield's Garden on the Corner

The Mollen Foundation, a 501 C(3) non-profit organization since 2008, is dedicated to educating and empowering schools and communities to transform their lives by adopting healthy habits to achieve life-long benefits. The Mollen Foundation offers a comprehensive approach to healthy living through food education, physical activity, leadership and resiliency skills. Our Farm to Table collaboration began in 2012 as a project with a passionate group of high school students, called Newtrition, after a protest in the cafeteria to bring healthy food to their campus.

Growing the Garden - Roses in Concrete Nature Program

Roses in Concrete Community School (RiC) is a K-4 school in East Oakland that opened its doors this academic year with 200 students enrolled: 40% Latino, 40% African-American, 10% Asian and Pacific Islander, 8% multi-racial, and 2% European-American. Over 50% qualify as socio-economically disadvantaged. Our school emphasizes knowledge of self, character, and intellectual growth to prepare students to fundamentally impact global society beginning with actively participating in their own communities.

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