Garden Classrooms

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.
 

Le Jardin Academy

Piko, in Hawaiian, is the navel or place for being. Our learning garden, Piko, is the inspiration for our ‘place’ for being. Situated in the center of the lower-school classrooms, it is a gathering place, educational center, and our connection to the earth. It is our hands-on tool for exploring many of our inquiry units, part of our International Baccalaureate programs. When a local farmer said that our garden wouldn’t grow anything, we didn’t throw down the shovel; we dug in. We attended workshops. We created a round layered garden.

Ridgewood Elementary School

Our goal at Ridgewood Elementary School is to establish a sense of community in our students. In our inaugural garden year, we planted vegetables and flower seedlings that our third and fourth grade teachers had started in the windowsills of their classrooms. We had an outpouring of parental and volunteer support to water, weed, and harvest our gardens this summer. We were thrilled to fulfill our primary goal of connecting to the community by donating over 6 loads of produce to our local SON ministries and Hilliard Free Summer Lunch Program for students in need.

York Community High School

The goal of our garden is to improve the visual appeal of the school’s courtyard and promote student interest in growing and consuming fresh, school-grown, organic foods. A school garden introduces students to vegetables that they normally would not consume. Food harvested from our garden will be given to the school’s food service for incorporating into the menu at the student cafeteria. Summer foods harvested will be donated to the food pantry of York Presbyterian Church in Elmhurst.

Brady High School

Our program is called “From Tower to Tray” or more commonly known as Seed to Feed. We started a school garden last year in an abandoned greenhouse located at our High School. With a little TLC and the awesome support of our AG students and our maintenance crew the greenhouse was made useable to us for our Tower Gardens. I decided to use the Aeroponic vertical gardening system because it allowed our garden to be mobile to display in cafeterias, take to classrooms or at family event nights.

Hollenbeck Middle School

The garden we have provided for Hollenbeck Middle School is truly beautiful: there are various raised beds full of basil, corn, carrots, bok choy, swiss chard, kale, brussel sprouts, and beets. Fruit trees line the periphery of the garden, and there is even an arroyo with a bridge crossing. With the Whole Kids Foundation Grant, our goal is to not only continue to maintain and utilize the thriving plants to its full potential, but to spread the impact of the garden’s success.

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