Garden Classrooms

Ventura Unified School District Demostration Garden

Our demostation garden mainly serves two elementary schools and one middle school. We teach lessons in the garden that connect with Core Curriculum and emphasize health and nutrition.  We will also be conducting Garden Enhanced Nutrition Education trainings in our garden for educators.

Carver's Produce Edible Schoolyard

The life of George Washington Carver will always be remembered through his contributions to humanity, agriculture, and our environment. He left behind a selfless legacy to guide future generations into greater heights. Father Carver, as we affectingly call him, had a passion for teaching his students and taking them “into the field” for research at Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee University). 

Edible Schoolyard Project Stockton Community Farm

In the fall of 2021, the Edible Schoolyard Project secured the lease to a six-acre community farm located in South Stockton. This came after more than two years of building ties with residents in the area through an after-school cooking class at Taylor Leadership Academy and a program to distribute organic CSA boxes throughout the community.

The farm will soon host groups of students for classes that teach gardening and culinary skills, and will continue to be a place where community members can grow food on plots of land.

Franklin School Victory Garden

The Franklin Elementary School Victory Garden is administered and supported by Victory Garden Foundation - a 501c3 community benefit organization with a mission to educate, support, encourage, inspire, and advocate for people growing food at and near home.

The Franklin garden currently provides an educational backdrop to about 300 students led by 10 teachers; 5 volunteers under the supervision of Victory Garden Foundation. The garden program includes Math and Science in the Garden; Gardening skills; Monarch Butterfly Project, and Health and Nutrition in the Garden instruction.

New Horizon Peace Garden

The vision for a New Horizon School Peace Garden at its middle school campus grew out of a desire to develop a space that will enrich our students’ learning with the establishment of an environmental education program and serve as a place to sow seeds of peace and understanding through community building. The school’s diverse student body hails from all around the world including Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Our core goals for the Peace Garden’s 6,480 foot space are:

Black Diamond High School Garden

We hope to create a garden workspace where students, afterschool programs, and the greater community can come together to create a living environment that will teach all involved about sustainability, healthy practices, and the value of teamwork.

 

Made possible by the generosity of DOW Chemical and the DOW Promise grant.

Suisun Valley Garden

Suisun Valley is a rural K-8 school of approximately 520 students located in a prime agricultural area of Suisun Valley. Approximately 60% of our students come from outside our attendance area, attending our school as a school-of-choice option or NCLB choice from underperforming schools. The school has developed a reputation for being a small nurturing school and instructionally demanding environment.

Valley Academy Charter School

We are Desert Hive Food Forests, a Non-profit organization operating in the far Southwestern corner of Utah! We are currently working on a school garden overhaul with Valley Academy Charter School a Kindergarten through 7th grade school serving about 350 students in a rural desert community. We believe strongly that schools provide the perfect platform for community centered agriculture and believe that outdoor garden classrooms that serve the children, the cafeteria, and the community, are a necessary addition to our current curriculum standards.

Red Hill Lutheran School

 

Parent volunteers from Red Hill Lutheran School in Tustin, CA constructed an Outdoor Classroom last summer, and it is now know around campus as the RHLS Learning Garden.

Classes Kindergarten through 5th Grade visit the Learning Garden once a month for CA Standards based lessons and hands-on gardening experiences.

Alta Mesa Garden Club

Our Student Garden Club meets twice a month. We have about 50 members ranging from 1st graders to 5th graders. We have parent volunteers as well. Our club works to improve our school landscape and works in our school garden.

Classrooms can use the garden and one class does so regularly.

We also run one fund-raiser per year to fund our garden projects.

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