Garden Classrooms

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 

Mobile Greenhouse Project

The Mobile Greenhouse Project is designed as a way to make food growing fun and interesting for kids and adults.

I travel with my converted school bus to schools and events and offer my services to install gardens at schools, clubs and churches. I also help with community gardens and private residence gardens.

Nature's Abundance Garden School Program

My name is Anne Stabb and I am the founder of Nature's Abundance Garden School Program at Chester County Family Academy Charter School (K-2nd) in West Chester, PA.

Ivy Tech Associate Accelerated Program & IPS #87 Garden Project

Ivy Tech’s ASAP Program and IPS school 87’s Garden Project is a space wherein students experience the origins of food and is a hub for collaborative learning.

FoodPrints at Tyler Elementary School

FoodPrints programs are now in 5 public schools in Washington, DC. The FoodPrints garden at Tyler Elementary is one of our newest, started in the spring of 2014 with a school garden grant from OSSE (DC's dept of education), generous support from FreshFarm Markets, and lots of help from the school community (students, staff, and parents).

CURBSIDE

We are a small school located within a bigger school. Our program begins indoor from seed and transplants outdoors when the weather is willing. The goal is to introduce students to healthy food choices. We also donate alot of our produce to foodbanks and the school culinary program.

Education Outside

Education Outside is cultivating the next generation of scientific thinkers and environmental stewards by introducing urban children to hands-on explorations in public school gardens.

We support a service corps of emerging leaders who work full-time at 37 of San Francisco’s public elementary schools to bring nature and science directly into the hands of 14,000 students each year.

Wolsey-Washington School Farm to School Program

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: Wolsey‐Wessington Public School District’s farm to school project will benefit 310 students in a rural and remote school district in central South Dakota. Forty-nine percent of our students are overweight or obese according to the 2012 SD Health Data, and over 44% receive free or reduced lunch. The district has no experience in local food procurement but is anxious to begin the process.

re:TH!NK, Winnebago County Farm to School Project

The following description is a summary of our farm to school plan funded by a 2014 USDA Farm to School Program grant: “re:TH!NK,” a healthy living coalition in the state of Wisconsin and a program of the Winnebago County Health Department, will support farm to school programs in three participating school districts through freezing of local produce for use in school lunches, promoting healthy eating through various farm to school activities, events, and programs, and establishing the framework for the development of a self‐sustaining system to manage the procurement of locally‐grown food fo

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