Garden Classrooms

New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids- Camden

 New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids (NJPHK) is a statewide program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) with technical assistance and direction provided by the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance. The goal of the program is to convene, connect and empower community partnerships across the state to implement environment and policy changing strategies that prevent childhood obesity. 

 

New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids is proud to partner with the following organizations:

Isles, Inc

 Founded in 1981, Isles, Inc. is a community development and environmental organization based in Trenton, New Jersey. With a mission to foster self-reliant families and healthy, sustainable communities, we design and develop effective services that support this mission and share what we learn with others who can make a difference.

Greater Brunswick Charter School

 Greater Brunswick Charter School is a free, independent public school founded by area parents and educators in 1998. Located in a newly renovated building in New Brunswick, NJ, our school welcomes a diverse population from New Brunswick, Highland Park, and Edison, as well as other districts around the state.

Winston County Self Help Cooperative

 WCSHC's purpose is to help small farmers purchase and sell in bulk with a goal of creating sustainability in rural communities by connecting with USDA and other organizations to provide services in a timely manner.

WCSHC has teamed up with FoodCorps MS to help connect kids in Winston County to real food and where it comes from and help them grow up healthy.

Mississippi Association of Cooperatives

The Mississippi Association of Cooperatives (MAC) was established in 1972 as an affiliate of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund (1967). A nonprofit organization, MAC serves farmers, their families and communities in increasing their livelihood security and improving quality of life. Building from a tradition steeped in the Civil Rights Movement, MAC provides technical assistance and advocates for the needs of its members in the areas of cooperative development and networking, sustainable production, marketing and community food security.

Ben W. Murch Elementary School

The Ben W. Murch Elementary School is a DC public school serving 630 students from Pre-K through 5th grade. Murch, its Home and School Association, and community partners, have supported a school garden program, the Murch GreenScene, since 2009. Each year every student at Murch has between one and three lessons in the gardens, sometimes more, plus one nutrition-based lesson with a local chef. The GreenScene program supports six outdoor garden learning centers: 1 - a 15-tree fruit orchard and diverse tree canopy, supported in partnership with Casey Trees; 2 - a 190 sq. ft.

Hamilton Central School's Seed To Table Program

Our raised garden bed "seed to table" program began in 2011.  We currently have five 12' x 4' raised garden beds in use.  We also have a small pumpkin patch, as well as several composting bins used for replacement soil within our raised beds.  

Our school also has a greenhouse, where many of the plants that are planted in our raised beds are started and cared for by students, until the weather is optimum to plant outside.  

The Farm at Effie Kokrine Early College Charter School

 The Farm at Effie Kokrine Early College Charter School is a special project of Effie Kokrine FFA. Students participate in a summer "Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture" class and grow a one-acre vegetable garden, selling the vegetables at farmer's market. During the school year, FFA students take classes like Fiber Arts and raise angora rabbits for fiber. In the future, we hope to expand to raise livestock such as chickens and goats and have a full-time vocational agriculture program.

Enivornment Community Opportunity Charter School

The Environment Community Opportunity (ECO) Charter School seeks to empower students to become adept learners, community leaders and environmental stewards. We seek support to further develop our school garden in an effort to fulfill our mission. When we envisioned a garden, we wanted to create an outdoor sanctuary where students would feel safe and become inspired by planting, growing and maintaining a variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Tierra Pacifica Charter School

Tierra Pacifica Charter School, formed in 1998, is a collaborative effort among parents, teachers and community members committed to the development of the whole child. Through the establishment of a charter school, we believe we can work within the school system to create an innovative alternative model to traditional public elementary schools.

Tierra Pacifica educates children from Kindergarten through 8th grade. The school is designed for families who want to take an active role in the education of their children, both in and out of the classroom.

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