Garden Classrooms

The Carrot Academy

The Carrot Academy is an initiative to offer alternative classroom like experiences to youth at our LOVE Building facility. A traditional Academy event allows children to go out into the garden and work with plants, weed and harvest, compost and plant. They then take some of  their bounty into the kitchen, prepare their meal and sit down and talk about a topic related to their self sufficiency, self esteem and sustainable food systems. Then they wash up and put their dishes away.

Springhouse Green

 The reinvention of our food system is now part of the national dialogue with employers, employees, and communities at large looking to positively affect today’s concerns about escalating health care costs, food security and nutrition, personal and family health, community development, and “carbon footprint.” Springhouse Green offers simple solutions for greening corporate and community spaces with vegetable garden buildouts, nutrition counseling, lunch-and-learn workshops, garden maintenance services, and LEED applications.

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.

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