Garden Classrooms

Bridge to Community Health (Puente a la Salud Comunitaria)

INTEGRATED APPROACH
Developing a Model for a Sustainable Food System
 
Rural family farmers work hard to produce half of the world's food, yet they make up 75% of the world's poor (FAO, 2014). We focus on the farming, consumption, and commercialization of amaranth, a highly nutritious cereal crop native to Mexico, to improve family nutrition and create economic opportunities for rural families.   Our work is based in Oaxaca, Mexico.

José Carreiro Children’s Garden

The goals of the José Carreiro Children’s Garden are to provide place-based hands-on experiences for children which actively engage them in sustainable gardening as of means of learning how plants and animals grow; teach children where food comes from; provide opportunities for children to explore how to support a healthy garden environment; teach children how to make sound choices for healthy bodies; and utilize the garden framework to make connections to the local ecosystem.

University of San Francisco Urban Agriculture

In 2007, USF professors Melinda Stone and Seth Wachtel and eleven students enrolled in the year-long Garden Project living learning community transformed an overgrown lot into a campus organic garden. Over the next four years, Garden Project students and faculty installed irrigation and water catchment systems, planted an orchard, painted garden murals, and designed and built an outdoor kitchen, greenhouse, toolshed, and a solar power system. In 2011, responding to overwhelming amount of student interest, the professors transitioned the Garden Project into a minor in Urban Agriculture.

The Cultural Conservancy Native Foodways Program

The heart of The Cultural Conservancy’s Native Foodways work lies in connecting Native communities, Native youth, and non-Native allies together in a trailblazing effort to give Native communities equal access, knowledge, and understanding of their foods, traditions, and cultures. In doing so, we focus on health and nutrition through food as an integral step toward improved well-being.

Seed to Table Program at Greens Farms Academy

The Seed to Table program at Greens Farms Academy is a journey in which students embark to develop meaningful connections with the world around them through the exploration of food and natural communities. Food serves as an excellent medium for learning as it permeates our everyday lives and opens itself to lessons on topics such as environmental literacy, culture, health and nutrition, history, and creativity. The organic garden is Seed to Table’s outdoor classroom where students gain opportunities for hands-on and experiential learning.

Mother Lode Farm To School Network

The Mother Lode Farm To School Network strives to create a region where all schools teach about and provide access to healthy, locally grown food, creating future generations of healthy children and economically vibrant farms. We serve public schools in the Central Sierra Region and partner with FoodCorps California to focus our efforts on establishing community lead garden and farm to school programs in Title 1 schools. We value justice, health, education, and communities.

Gardens to Grow In

Gardens to Grow In is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 with a mission to promote and support healthy and sustainable lifestyles, youth development, community involvement and self-reliance in Calaveras County schools and communities by teaching children and adults how to grow and prepare healthy food. We have developed and/or supported garden and nutrition programs at all nine Calaveras Unified School District (CUSD) schools over the last three years and have partnered with CUSD and the UC Cooperative Extension, Central Sierra to host a FoodCorps service member.

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

"We Nurture our Warm Community Through Whole Food and Culinary Literacy"

Willow Creek Academy Culinary Farm Program

Established in 2014 by a group of committed students, teachers, parents, and community leaders, the Willow Creek Academy Culinary Farm’s mission is to create an engaging, systematic and sustainable outdoor education program in the fields of cooking, gardening and nutrition that deepens the understanding of core knowledge and nurtures a lifelong connection between mind, body, spirit and the environment.

Dale Junior High School

Our school garden was a vision of several teachers, along with the blessings of our administrative team, to create a "live" outdoor classroom that would promote hands-on learning while tackling the guidelines of Common Core Curriculum in numerous courses of study. We believe that if you provide the students will valuable, practical and relevant material, our students will soar to heights that we can not even imagine.

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