Garden Classrooms

SMA Gardening Club is a group that meets weekly to maintain a school garden.  It is student lead and maintained.  The students are responsible for planting, weeding, watering, tilling, and any other necessary tasks in the garden.  The produce grown in the garden is harvested and sold at the local farmer’s market.  The profit made at the local farmer’s market is placed back into the program.  

Small groups of students are pulled out of the Outdoor Development Class and the Environmental Science class to spend time with the Seed to Table teacher, Lorri Garrett. They plant, grow, harvest, cook and eat organic produce. Being on the estuary, Lincoln Middle School applied to be an Ocean's Guardian School and has been growing Marsh Gumplant to help restore the waterfront. The students also learn how to make seed balls with native wildflower seeds. 

The Real Food SEED (Student Engagement Every Day) project is designed to provide students with authentic learning opportunities connecting them to real food through sensory experiences.  Our programs in the school cafeteria, classroom, school garden, and local farming community engage students in learning about growing food, eating seasonally and mindfully, and preparing and enjoying meals together.  Our goal is to provide all students with the knowledge and skills to make conscious, educated food choices that will nourish them for a lifetime of health.

Our mission at Plant The Seed Project is to provide the resources and skills necessary for youth to participate in the global food system. For the past two years we have worked with elementary students in the Barnum neighborhood of Denver which is a USDA recognized food desert. The two schools we work with are both Title I schools, thus the majority of our students come from low income backgrounds. We believe in empowering youth to faciilitate every step of the food production process.