Garden Classrooms

Slow Food Miami Garden Program

Since 2007, Slow Food MIami has developed and administered a large school garden program that impacts up to 35,000 students at over 50 elementary, middle and high schools in the Miami-Dade school district.  We give mini grants, install raised garden beds, supply financial resources and educational materials and training to the qualified schools that apply for our grants.  We are very wide reaching and are now going more deeply into the classrooms via curriculum integration and into the cafteterias with garden produce being added to the daliy fare offered to students.  

Community School of Excellence Edible Schoolyard

Community School of Excellence (CSE) is a public charter school that serves approximately 1,000 students in grades K-8. The school embraces and celebrates the Hmong culture through intercultural understanding and respect. CSE partners with Spark-Y (http://spark-y.org/) - empowering youth through action-oriented labs focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship - and the Design & InnoVation Lab’s CHEW program - Cook Healthy; Eat Well.

Roosevelt IB Middle School garden

Roosevelt Middle School has three outdoor growing spaces including 28 raised beds, 4 hydroponic tables, nutrient feeding table, 400 square-foot greenhouse, compost area, hardening area and two dozen fruit trees.  Along with these growing classrooms, cooking labs, and proximity to the San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park, students have access to all the resources needed to become young agroecologists (contemporary sustainable farmers).

Garden Hills Elementary

We grow community around school gardens by providing technical assistance, resources and partnerships to cultivate the next generation of healthy eaters of good, clean and fair food.

st. francis school

I am the garden coordinator at a small independant school, St. Francis, in Goshen, KY.  It sits on 64 acres.  When I started, the school had 2 failed attemps with school gardens and an empty green house.  I have been there a year, part time, and have 6 raised beds with year round growing capabilities, a 350 sq. ft. in ground garden, 5 indoor vermacompost  and one in ground vermacompost.  We incubated eggs and have those chickens and 2 angora rabbits!  The kids have built me a chicken tractor and helped build the in ground vermacompost.  I teach part of their healthy choices class.

Valleybound - School and Community Garden

Valleybound is an empowering educational space that promotes healthy living practices through local agriculture, conservation and sustainability. School and community gardens have succeeded in various cities around the San Luis Valley including Saguache, Del Norte and Alamosa. These gardens have provided their citizens with a way to reconnect with their roots, all the while sustaining a dialogue centered on healthy lifestyles.

Kindred Spirits Care Farm

At Kindred Spirits Care Farm, our mission is to promote compassion, cooperation and connection with the earth, animals and each other. Our current project is on a continuation high school for at-risk kids and already has a farm set up on the property.  The staff is extraordinary, dedicated and excited about the benefits that Kindred Spirits Care Farm can bring to their kids.  The kids themselves love their farm and are inspired to make it a thriving, sustainable, permaculture oasis.

Playa del Rey Elementary School Garden

The school garden is an extension of the classroom. Students are able to apply concepts learned in the classroom to real-world experiences in the garden. The garden is used for math, science, art, reading and language arts, and of course gardening. Gardening is integrated into cirriuclum and an enrichment component. The permaculture based management of the garden allows students to investigate the multiple systems co-existing within it. This encourages students to comprehend the larger intersectional relationships between subjects, skills and community in an exciting way. 

Growing Green Kids

GROWING GREEN KIDS  An enrichment program providing garden-enhanced nutrition education in a fun and active learning environment! Kids connect with nature and food as both gardeners and cooks in these action-oriented, child-centered classes and workshops. 

 

Southside Occupational Academy

Southside Occupational Academy is a transition center for students aged 16-22 years with disabilities. Students are placed at our school by Chicago Public Schools' Office of Diverse Learners and Support Services. We provide students with educational training opportunities in the areas of Independent Functioning, Social Learning, Vocational, and Applied Academics. 

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