Garden Classrooms

Salem County Health Department

 The Salem County Health Department employs a full time health educators who covers any and all health related topics that your group or organization may need. These presentations can be a onetime event or a series of educational presentations designed to build upon each other and provide comprehensive knowledge of a particular condition or illness. The Salem County Health Department is committed to providing our community with the resources to take charge of their lives and improve their health.

Green Plate Special

Founded in 2011, Green Plate Special (GPS) engages ethnically diverse, middle-school youth (ages 10 – 14) through classroom- and after-school, hands-on learning in the self-sufficiency skill of growing, cooking, and eating healthy, tasty food.

Missoula County Public School District

Missoula County Public Schools is an official service site partner with FoodCorps, a national service organization.

 Missoula County Public Schools serves area students through nine elementary schools, three middle schools and four high schools (three in Missoula and one in Seeley Lake). The District also operates an Alternative High School program, Early Learning Preschool program at Jefferson Center and an adult education program at The Lifelong Learning Center.

Cayuse Prairie School

Cayuse Prairie School is a small, rural elementary school located in Kalispell, MT. The school is a service site partner with the national service organization, FoodCorps. 

A FoodCorps service member will be joining the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, to work with three area schools. Among the three, the service member will serve in nutrition classes, school gardens, and farm to school procurement.

Bigfork School District #38

Bigfork School District is a service site partner with the national service organization, FoodCorps. Bigfork School District started building the school garden in 2012. A FoodCorps service member joined the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, in 2013 to work with three area middle schools. Among the three, the service member serves in nutrition classes, school gardens and farm to school procurement.  

Somers Middle School

Somers Middle School is a service site with the national service organization, FoodCorps. A FoodCorps Service Member will be joining the Northshore Compact in Flathead Valley, Montana, to work with three area middle schools. Among the three, she will serve in nutrition classes, school gardens, a hydroponic greenhouse, and farm to school procurement.

 

Somers Middle School has mutliple school gardens, including an indoor hydroponic garden and an outdoor rasied bed vegetable garden.

 

National Center for Appropriate Technology & Butte Public School District

 This is a service site with the national program FoodCorps.

The Farm to School program serves students in the Butte Public School District. Students receive nutrition education lessons, after school food and garden programming, food tasting activities in the school cafeteria, and much more! The Farm to School program is also working with the Butte School Lunch program to source and serve more fresh, local foods in the lunchroom.

Lockwood Boys and Girls Club

The Lockwood Clubhouse is open to all Lockwood youth Kindergarten through 8th grade.

The FoodCorps Service Member at the Lockwood Boys and Girls Club in Billings, MT, is teaching hands-on food, nutrition, and garden education with elementary school students. The service member is helping to expand the garden at the Lockwood Boys and Girls Club and having some awesome culinary adventures with the food that they grow. 
 

The Mamá Tingó Garden

 The Mamá Tingó garden is a garden classroom at The Mariposa Center for Girls on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. The Mariposa Center for Girls offers an alternative education program to adolescent girls in Cabarete, empowering and educating them with the vision to end generational poverty. Environmental education is an integral part of our holistic girls education program.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County

 Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension helps the diverse population of New Jersey adapt to a rapidly changing society and improve their lives and communities through an educational process that uses science based knowledge. Through science-based educational programs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension truly enhances the quality of life for residents of New Jersey and brings the wealth of knowledge of the state university to local communities.

 

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