Garden Classrooms

We represent a diverse geographic and socioeconomic range across the largest city in Nebraska. We serve a wide variety of students and families from low to high economic status, including free and reduced lunch, ELL, refugee, minority, special education and migrant citizens. We have had the good fortune to partner with local community garden organizations and local businesses but we are seeking to expand our knowledge and skills to better serve our community.

The Edible Peace Patch Project is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization whose mission is to eliminate poverty as a factor in educational success and diet-related health issues by cultivating healthy minds and bodies.  To accomplish this mission we provide education through hands-on learning, in our organic garden beds. These sustainable gardens are built through community co-creation and utilization of local resources! 

Gourmet  Garden Mission: Linking nutrition education, activity, and food through a school garden.
The mission of the garden is to create and sustain an organic garden and landscape that is wholly integrated into the foods and nutrition classes and in the future the school’s curriculum, culture, and food program.

The purpose of the Vincent Academy Garden and Nutrition program is to introduce students to the joys of gardening and to develop healthy eating habits and awareness at an early age. West Oakland is considered a food desert and most families do not have access to affordable, healthy produce within the community. Therefore, many nutrition-related health problems plague community members of all ages. Obesity, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes are common conditions for poor families living in this community.