Garden Classrooms

Sustainable Schools

The project Strengthening School Feeding Programs in the LAC Countries was created, aimed at strengthening the school feeding programs (SFP) in the region, through the implementation of sustainable SFP.

North Valley Slow Food Group

Our North Valley Chapter of the Slow Food Coalition is in its infancy but our organization should have final national approval by March 38, 2017. Our mission is to cultivate community awareness and, specifically, to support school and community gardens, edible education and promote good, clean and fair food for all. Our program serves the diverse local community of Butte County including farmers, ranchers, university students and staff, elementary and secondary students and teachers as well as a transient population who call this area home.

Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation 'ĀINA in Schools Program

The ʻĀINA in Schools program, one of three initiatives housed in the non-profit Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation, is a Farm to School program that connects children to their local land, waters, and food to grow a healthier Hawaiʻi. The program includes a K-6 curriculum with garden, nutrition, and composting education components. Led by volunteer docents from the parent and school community, ʻĀINA lessons occur on a monthly basis for a total of 8, hands-on lessons with fresh, and healthy taste tests accompanying most lessons.

EAE: Edible Schoolyard Project

Our Edible Schoolyard: Cultivating, Collaborating, Captivating & Sustaining the Community

Rutgers Master Gardeners of Monmouth County - School Programs Committee

Rutgers Master Gardeners are volunteers trained and certified by Rutgers Cooperative Extension to provide educational programs and activities in support of environmentally responsible gardening.  The group is dedicated to education, outreach, and suport.

 

School Programs Description

Meadowbrook Waldorf School

The Meadowbrook Waldorf School offers Waldorf education to children in pre-kindergarten through Grade 8, with additional programs for younger children and their caregivers.Our beautiful campus has 28 acres of woods, streams and magical glades for exploration and play.

Manzano Day School

Manzano Day School is a private elementary school located in an urban area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our school serves 460 students in PreK through 5th grade. Our student body includes 45% children of color. Manzano Day School is dedicated to innovative, child-centered education, excellence in teaching, and joy in learning to prepare children for a life of discovery and community involvement in our diverse world. 

Food Service of the Uruguayan American School

The Uruguayan American School (UAS) is a private college preparatory school enrolling approximately 320 international and host country students in Nursery through Grade 12.
My job here as a School Nutritionist is to partner with the outsourced food service provider to ensure a nutritionally sound food program that supports healthy food habits while maintaining customer satisfaction. Our mission is to offer fresh, seasonal and local market cuisine.
Lunches and snacks are prepared according to our law N° 19.140, which promotes healthy eating habits in schools.

The Anneliese Schools

One of the unique aspects of an education at Anneliese School’s is that all students, pre-school through 6th grade, receive garden instruction. Our garden program engages children’s minds, spirits, and bodily senses through the activities of gardening, cooking, and eating. In the process, they are educated as thoughtful, responsible citizens of planet earth.

Cliff Spenger

I have been performing as the Greenman (a12 foot tall walking Treeman that promotes trees and nature) for 20years.

i have a character, Johnny G Appletree, who is a nine foot tall walking talking Appletreeman. He has performed at schools in Okinawa, Inner Mongolia and Oakland CA.

I want to create a school program for him to promote edible school yards.

My goal by attending the Edible School Yard academy is to form the basis for my program.

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