Garden Classrooms

Kids Country Edible Education Project

Kids Country is  an afterschool program operating  15 sites at Elementary Schools in San Ramon and Danville, CA   Last year, inspired by a visit to the ESY, we launched our Edible Education Project.  We   recruited staff who shared our passion and got to work.    Committees were formed dedicated to planting edible gardens, improving the quality of food served, serving meals family style, and developing garden and cooking curriculum for all 15 sites.     This year we will continue to grow and look forward to collaborating with experts and educators, and to creating partnerships with our fami

FoodCorps California

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy.

Serving alongside educators and community leaders, FoodCorps members partner with schools to put in place a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids, creating a nourishing environment for all students. Our service members provide:

The Food School at Common Ground Urban Farm

 The Food School is a start up non-profit organization in Ft. Collins, CO that offers unique agricultural experiences combined with on- and off-site food education for children and adults. Currently, our staff visits local classrooms and delivers standards-aligned food educaiton curriculum about topics such as food equity, food security, and faces of the food chain.

Tender Greens Sustainable Life Project

The Sustainable Life Project (SLP), developed by the founders of Tender Greens Restaurants, believes firmly in the power of food to bring nourishment, healing and opportunity to young lives.

Whittier Elementary School

The goal of the garden project is to transform a wasted courtyard space into a vegetable garden and native plant nursery for curriculum-based education and extracurricular enrichment. In addition to hands-on gardening skills, nutrition and sustainability, students will learn the importance of native-habitat restoration, ecology and resource management. The garden will allow produce to be donated to the Peoples Resource Center (PRC), a local organization that provides food to low-income families in our community.

Salem Middle School

The garden would open up a new world to students who have not had the opportunity to garden/experience what they plant grow and harvest. They will take pride in donating to community. The garden would provide hands on food education to bridge the gap from classroom to lunchroom. We are also dedicated to providing fresh fruit and vegetables to populations that do not have access to these. Our partnerships with Whole Foods Market, The Jamie Oliver Food Revolution and the Wake County PTA Council will ensure a great connection with our community.

Edgerton Elementary

The garden will provide an educational resource for teachers to expand the diversity of their teaching methods, student excitement for their lessons, and retention of the material. The students will become more knowledgeable about how food is grown, be more likely to eat fresh vegetables and excited by the seasonal changes in the garden. Consequently, student participation as well as health will improve, allowing the children to learn more and bring gardening knowledge and new ideas home to their families.

Woodlands Secondary School

Our school goal is to provide an educational opportunity for a wide variety of students within our community. We are hoping to establish a large food garden and orchard at the front of the school as a way to engage those students to build school pride and increase community engagement. The garden will also serve as a sustainable food source for a population in need and will offer additional skill based learning opportunities for students at the school. We hope to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs as well as plant a variety of fruit trees to rpovide food for growing school food programs.

Wilson Middle School

We hope to create an outdoor classroom where students can engage in the planning, growing, maintaining and harvesting of a school garden. This will be a wonderful learning experience for students, creating a healthy and prosperous garden with a variety of plants that will be used to generate service learning projects for students. Moving forward, as we recruit parent volunteers our intention is a holistic one that will engage the entire family. Our goal is to also encourage healthy eating habits as well as help sustain the garden through a growers market.

Oakdale Elementary School

The overall goal of our garden is to give students an opportunity to interact with nature while learning our district outcomes. The garden has facilitated various lessons in new and exciting ways. Oakdale's school community has also become more engaged in school events through the use of the garden and other outdoor classroom events.

This grant will assist the garden in the following ways:

- increasing accessibility of planting to all students through ADA-facilitative, raised pots

- spring planting

- summer upkeep

- fall planting and harvesting

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