Garden Classrooms

Painted Rock Elementary School Garden

Edible school garden first being planted February 2014!  Will include garden classroom during lunchtime recess, as well as nutrition education and discussions on body image in the classrooms.

Steele Lane Elementary School Garden

We have four goals for our garden this year; to increase student contact time, to better align the program with Common Core Standards, to increase food production and to create a stronger school community through the garden's programs.

McKinley Elementary Garden

We have a school garden with each garden bed assigned to a different class.  We teach math, science, history, nutrition, and local food systems in the garden.

Sequoia Garden Project

About

Sequoia Middle School's community garden project took flight in January, 2012. We are located in Redding, CA.  We presently have 5th thru 8th graders involved in the garden through our science department and a garden elective class.

Mission

To provide students an opportunity to learn about growing and harvesting their own food, to give them a sense of pride in their labor and promote healthier living.

Description

Cheremoya Edible Garden & Wildlands

Cheremoya Elementary is located in the heart of Hollywood directly below the famous Hollywood sign. We are a low-income and underserved school within LAUSD. Our garden is a small edible raised bed space utilizing part of the schools payground.  With the help of a group in Los Angeles that transforms spaces in gardens, ENRICHLA, we turned the asphalt into a cheerful, inviting space, where students are able to learn in an active, outdoor environment.  Our garden acts as catalyst to show students just how versatile, delicious, and FUN healthy food can be, developing positive attitudes toward h

Ben Franklin Nature Committee

Ben Franklin's Nature Committee maintains vegetable, herb, and fruit raised-bed gardens* and a butterfly garden. We use our gardens to educate students and their families on the health benefits of fresh grown produce, promote school/family relationships, and provide much needed time in nature for our families and community. The Nature Committee gardens are supported by Ben Franklin's Wellness Committee, school administration, and UCONN's Cooperative Extension  Fund.

*container gardens will be built spring 2014

 

 

 

 

 

The Bella Garden Project

The Bella Garden Project surrounds itself in a learning experience for the students with a project-based concept.  The understanding of growing food from seed, health, wellness, teamwork, ownership, and the empowerment to become environmental stewards of our land encompass our educational experience in a Montessori learning institution.

Davis School for Independent Study School Garden

Our school has four large raised beds, some citrus trees, and a bee garden.

The Garden of Possibilities

The large, organic edible garden at Carthay Environmental Studies Magnet school is the lab in which all science education is supported for students grades pre-k throught 5th. The Carthay garden includes chickens, raised beds, citus and stone fruit orchards, a tropical garden, aquaponics, BioSCAN insect population study site, habitat and wildlife study gardens.

Nokomis Elementary School

Nokomis Community Garden serves the adjacent Head Start program and elementary school of 380 students. The 2013 - 2014 academic term marks a point of transition from state funding (Nutrition Network for Healthy California) to federal/private funding for our program (FoodCorps). FoodCorps service member Keegan Niland facilitates garden/nutrition lessons for grades 1 - 5 both in-school and afterschool. Students, staff, and Keegan are collaborating this school year to care for the garden, promote healthy choices, and involve more volunteers.

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