Garden Classrooms

Boys & Girls Club Student/Community Garden at Consuleo Mendez Middle School

 The school/community garden was created in response to the community's need that were brought up during a town hall meeting at the local elementary school in 2013. The community is in need of access to nutritious foods for its students and residents. 

Our school is located in Austin, TX. in the 78744 zip code which houses the highest amount of obese residents in all of Austin/Travis County.

we are still in the development phase where our long term goal is to provide access for the students and the community to fresh produce grown locally here in their community.

Federal Hocking Middle School Garden

 Our school garden program started as a tool for math and science instruction combined.  Currently it is made from 4 beds that are 10X60 feet each.  Much of the food that we produce is used in the school cafeteria.  The next phase of the garden is to cover the beds with greenhouses to be able to use them over the winter.

Common Threads Farm and School Garden Collective

 At Common Threads Farm, we are on a mission to connect children and youth with healthy food through seed-to-table educational experiences. We currently reach over 3000 youth annually through our school-based gardening and cooking programs, our partnerships with nonprofits serving low-income youth, and our open-enrollment Farm Camp and Camp Pizza programs. In each of these programs, children are engaged in planting, tending, harvesting, cooking, eating, and - in some instances - selling produce at EBT (food stamp) accessible farm stands.

Douglas School Garden

We have a 120x30 square foot garden plot plus two edible tree/shrub plantings. Kids ages 12-17 help with planting, harvesting, sign making, and other garden activities. We do simple raw food demos whenever we harvest and tie nutritional education into it by taking turns reading from books like New Whole Foods Encyclopedia. We emphasize perennials and no-till gardening, using sheet mulch and other water-wise gardening methods.

MSU Extension Chippewa County

 MSU Extension in Chippewa County partners with the Upper Peninsula Food Exchange, the Eastern Upper Peninsula (EUP) Food Hub, and EUP Intermediate School District on local food initiatives in the region that support school gardens, hoop houses and farm to school efforts. A FoodCorps service member complements the work of MSU Extension and allows increased engagement with schools in the region, especially in garden-based education with students.

City Blossoms

City Blossoms is a non-profit organization working out of the Washington D.C. area dedicated to kid-driven, community engaging, creative green spaces. City Blossoms began nine years ago as a volunteer project and has since evolved into a year-round program that includes consulting, curriculum development (with consideration for learning standards), and regular on-site workshops. To date, City Blossoms has worked with over 3000 children and youth in various gardening projects.

Reynolds Middle School Community Garden

 Reynolds Community Garden was founded in 2011 by teachers and staff who wanted to increase community involvement and help families eat healthy on a daily basis. 9 of the 12 boxes our garden has are used by refugee families in the Lancaster area. The other 3 are used by our "Green Club" as part of the after-school program. 

Glenknoll Elementary Garden Club

 Glenknoll Garden Club allows the students at Glenknoll Elementary to work in an organic garden each week.  The children work in every capacity, from readying the soil, choosing the seeds, planting, weeding, harvesting and consuming their goods!  The produce that is not used for class use is donated to neighborhood families, or local charities.  

This program has allowed students who do not have a space at their own homes, to experience what it's like to grow their own food.  

 

The Springs Seedlings

 The Seedlings Project is a garden classroom that was created following the model of The Edible Schoolyard, a garden established by Alice Waters, Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. With land allocated by the Springs School District, the center of the project is a greenhouse for teaching, learning, and growing. Project MOST, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, and experienced community organization dedicated to high quality after school programs for children, has taken the lead to establish this project and has made it shine.

Santo Domingo Edible School Garden

The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health is implementing an innovative and holistic nutrition-focused initiative to promote access to nutritious foods and healthy development for American Indian youth, families, and communities.

Pages