Garden Classrooms

Edible EdVentures is a project-based science enrichment program for children to explore the links between food and nature!  Edible EdVentures explores exciting elements of food through inquiry-based science, literacy and art projects.  Our mission is to provide students with hands-on workshops that promote a healthy balance between our plates and our environment.

Green Thumb Growers Guild is a horticultural education program that meets as part of the afterschool enrichment programs at Sidney Elementary School.  Students who participate experience anything and everything having to do with growing and using plants (and fungi).  The Green Thumb Growers Guild began in October 2013 with 15 members.  We use the outdoor gardens behind the elementary, classroom space for crafting projects, the nature trail for collecting and observing, and the greenhouse at the High School for starting seeds and experimenting.  Like the plants and gardens, we are growing as

The Campbell Elementary School Garden is part of a larger Campbell Outdoor Classroom, comprised of several areas on school grounds: courtyard and school-yard fruit and vegetable raised beds, a Colonial Virginia garden, a pollination garden, and a Wetlands Learning Lab. The Campbell Outdoor Classroom is incorporated into the school curriculum by the Expeditionary Learning Coordinator, Garden Docent, teachers, staff, and volunteers.

Bayfront Youth and Family Services Wellness Program services teen clients from the probation and foster care systems with mental illness diagonses in both residential and outpatient facilities. Through year round programming, we teach independent living and coping skills in the least restricitive theraputic settings available. Our evidence based programs target a wide breadth of goals in various categories of wellness, (interpersonal, intrapersonal, physical).