Garden Classrooms

Explore Ecology School Garden Program

The Sage Garden Project is sponsering me this year, but I work as a Garden Educator for Explore Ecology.

Explore Ecology is an environmental education and arts non-profit located in Santa Barbara, CA.  We work with over 30,000 children a year, inspiring them to engage with the natural world, think critically and experience the value of environmental stewardship. Our programs include the Art From Scrap Creative ReUse Store and Gallery, Environmental Education, the Watershed Resource Center, School Gardens Program, and ReUseSB. 

Racine Carrée

Our mission is to design sustainable oriented programs based on school needs that develop student's entrepreneurship skills and promote higher education.

Cape Fear Farmacy

Vision: To create and sustain a community garden for the production of food for those hungry in body and a place of beauty for those hungry in spirit. The community gardens are an avenue for sharing gardening knowledge, promoting self-sufficiency, providing healthy and productive activities for our youth and fostering a greater sense of community in Wilmington and surrounding areas. Partnership with local businesses and nonprofit organizations will ensure growth and continuity of the gardens.

Emerson Community Garden

The Emerson Community Garden was constructed in the spring of 2013. It was started with the support and passion of our late principal Dan Bergman. Parents and teachers have worked together to build a progessivley more sustainable garden science program. One goal of the program is to be able to have the garden open for exploration during rescess. We believe this is a time for free exploration and a chance to find ownership and responsibility. Another goal is to implement hands on science through the garden.

Food Garden at Commodore Sloat

Commodore Sloat Elementary School has partnered with Education Outside to create an outdoor classroom. Students come out once a week to learn about science, sustainability and healthy eating in our school garden. 

Willow Glen High School Gardens and Outdoor Learning Domains

This program and the gardens it creates are the realization of a long held dream, a vision of a wondrous place that will both inspire and enlighten all who enter it.

The WGHS Gardens and Outdoor Learning Domains serve as outdoor workspaces for teachers and students of all disciplines to explore the countless connections and interactions between various components of our environment.

Skyline School Garden Program

Skyline Elementary is a public school which serves the children of Solana Beach.  The enrollment is currently 550 children, in grades Kindergarten to sixth grade.  Twenty-two percent of the school population is at or below the poverty line.  The goal of the school's garden program is to involve each student in the curriculum throughout each school year.  The mission is to try to reduce the increasing rate of diabetes and obesity among children.

Gahanna Middle School South Garden Club

           Since December of 2013, the GMSS Garden has received grants from the Gahanna Jefferson Education Foundation, The Bob Toopes Show Your Class 5K, and Whole Foods’ Whole Kids program totalling over $5,000. The garden space includes over 20 beds for vegetables and herbs. A bed for blueberry bushes and wildflowers native to Ohio has been added. Additionally, benches and a large work table are being installed to create an outdoor classroom space.

Cleveland Elementary School

Cleveland Elemantary is in an urban setting in Oklahoma City with enrollment of 350 to 400.  The school yard garden is 2 raised beds and a large terraced area on a hill. We are growing vegetables and herbs and using the space as an outdoor classroom.

Our Global Garden

Community Magnet Charter School is located in west Los Angeles, serving approximately 450 students from all over the Los Angeles Unified School District. We had wanted an edible garden at the school for a long time, so in 2013 we built eight raised planters and started our journey to building a garden program, which we called Our Global Garden.

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