Garden Classrooms

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.

Roosevelt's Grilling Garden

We are teaching special education students how to grow and prepare their own vegetables at home for a healthier lifestyle. We have incorporated live-fire grilling as our main preparation method.

Grow It Green Morristown

The Urban Farm is New Jersey’s largest school garden. The farm is located at the Morris School District’s Lafayette Learning Center. Throughout the growing season, the Urban Farm serves the community by:

  • Providing educational opportunites for the 5,200 school children of the Morris School District, as well as area colleges and our local community members

  • Creating opportunities for children and adults to experience local, chemical-free food

Garden Growers Group

The Garden Growers Group is an important part of the GSB Community Garden. A Garden Grower is a member of the GSB Community that is helping the garden to grow by sharing time to help with the garden. This may include planting, weeding, and harvesting. There are also tasks that do not require getting dirty hands in the garden.  This includes sorting and saving seeds, planning summer plantings, updating our log books, and keeping the GSB Community updated about what is happening in the garden.  Garden Growers will be able to share in the harvest by sharing their time to help the garden. 

Greens Farms School Kitchen Garden Club

Greens Farms School (GFS) Kitchen Garden Club is an extension of the classroom - an innovative teaching tool that allows students to learn a diversity of disciplines through hands-on activities.
 
The primary aim of the GFS Kitchen Garden Club at GFS is to teach children how to grow their own food - fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs and then how to transform these ingredients into delicious, healthy meals.
 

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