Garden Classrooms

Super Sprowtz

Our mission is to use the educational power of media to help children learn about nutrition and wellness. Our program seamlessly integrates a proven curriculum that addresses children’s critical developmental needs around nutrition education with an exciting multi-media approach. Our ultimate goal is to make it fun for the whole family! - See more at: http://supersprowtz.com/about/#sthash.ETmCj08N.dpuf

Outgrowing Hunger

Harrison Park K-8 Garden

A dedicated 8,000sf school garden is partnered with a 12,000sf community garden on Portland Public Schools property to serve the whole family and whole community of Harrison Park Students. In-class and after school garden programming is provided through our partners Portland Earth Art and Agriculture Project and Impact Northwest.

 

Neighborhoods Community Garden

Mallinckrodt Academy for Gifted Instruction

Mallinckrodt garden was started five years ago by a principal, a teacher and a parents with one raised bed. Today it has blossomed into a beautiful school garden with 20 raised beds. We reached 100%  teacher participation for our weekly garden classes.  These classes are taught by volunteers or our community partner Gateway Greening. Food produced by the garden is harvested by volunteers, staff, students and neighbors. We have come long way but we still have a long way to go. We believe ESA is just want our team needs to take this program to the next level. 

St. George Middle School Team Green!

SGMS Team Green! is a middle school club focused on edible gardening and rehabilitating neglected corners of our school. Our priorities this year include a fruit orchard, a raised bed vegetable garden, and an herb and flower garden around the flag pole. We have also received a grant to begin developing an outdoor classroom near our science lab. The club is limited to twelve students this year. These students will learn garden management and cooperative group skills so that the organization can expand next year!

Corvallis Waldorf School

Corvallis Waldorf School is located on 12 acres of exclusive farm use zoned land with class 1 farm soil. We have a school garden, 40'X15' tunnel green house, duck flock, pumpkin patch, cob ovens and bench, composting stations, rain water harvesting, multi acre arboretum, intentionally created wetland, nesting boxes and habitat and vision to continue growing our agriculture program every year to include more row crops, animals, bees, forage crops and on site farm sales. 

Foster Elementary Vegetable Garden

This is a year round vegetable garden for 4th graders at the school. Two classes are taught each semester for 1 hour each week. The garden incudes 14  7 foot beds and 2  20 foot beds. Some summer produce is donated to one of the local food banks.

Family Cook Productions

FamilyCook Productions is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995.  We support communities with culinary/nutrition education programs because we know it takes a holistic approach to develop healthy family meals.

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Growing Matters Garden Program (Fair Food Matters)

The Growing Matters Garden (a program of Fair Food Matters) provides garden-based, hands-on learning opportunities for local youth and the larger community. Our main focus is to support and coordinate activities at the Woodward Elementary School garden in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Joseph Sears School Outdoor Classroom

The Outdoor Classroom is an outdoor space for student exploration, inquiry, discovery and learning.  It is filled with native prairie, woodland flowers, butterfly garden and a rain garden. In addition, we have 4 raised vegetable beds, a low vegetable bed, Concord grape vineyard, blueberry, raspberry and strawberry bushes and places to sit, study and enjoy the garden. The outdoor classroom is maintained by students, staff, and parents. During summer months, family volunteers adopted a week to weed, harvest and maintain with the help of The Organic Gardener every Friday.

Rancho Vista Elementary

The mission of the RV Learning Garden:

1.    Create an outdoor classroom where students can learn and apply lessons 

from the California State curriculum. In addition, continue the enhancement 

of Special Education classes by giving students the opportunity to seed, 

weed, water and harvest crops.

2.    Teach children about sustainability, local and organically grown food as 

well as environmental stewardship.

3.    Expose children to good nutrition and healthy eating habits by having them 

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