Garden Classrooms

KIPP Renaissance High School

The goals of this garden are to educate students about nutrition; to provide access for students to fresh produce; and to equip students with leadership skills, independence and self-sufficiency through their work in the garden. KIPP Renaissance High School moved to a new location this year. Although the students continue to maintain the Frederick Douglass Garden at their former school campus and sell the vegetables and herbs they harvest from the garden at the Sankofa Farmers Market every week, they are eager to develop a school garden in their new campus location.

Sandcreek Middle School

First and foremost is the goal to engagement of our students in the agricultural process. Our school is very involved in S.T.E.M. activities/interventions (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The projects will be looked at from both an agricultural and a scientific approach. We intend that all of our 779 students participate during our S.T.E.M. activity rotations (weekly). In addition, we have several schools that are close enough for walking field trips (three elementary schools and a high school). These other schools have a combined population of 2,600 students.

Ecole Marie-Curie

We are a small, urban, French-speaking school serving grades JK-Grade 6 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We have a very diverse student population with a high percentage of new immigrants and first-generation Canadians...So our garden not only helps feed our students, but also allows us to have a cultural-exchange wiht our students and their families at the same time.

North Branch School

The North Branch School garden is a teaching tool for students. The garden incorporates math, science, environmental education, social studies, art, & physical activity into the students' school days and our goal is to deepen their understanding of & connection to the growing cycle & the community. The garden currently has three 10' x 6' beds, so that students not only learn about gardening & sample the vegetables they have grown, but donate produce, or money raised from selling produce within the school community, to our local food pantry.

PS 24 - The Dual Language School for International Studies

With individualized help from caring volunteers, children at P.S. 24 K will learn how to tend to vegetables in their school garden, and how to use the vegetables and other healthy ingredients that are available at local grocery stores, to create healthy meals and snacks. The students will share with their families and community their knowledge and experience, and advocate for others to take the same steps toward a healthy diet.

This program is supported by New York Cares.

Dooley Schools at St. Joseph's Villa

The Villa offers special and alternative schools for students K-12 who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder; emotional and learning disabilities; are on long-term suspension from public schools; or who need a smaller and more flexible learning environment. The large majority of these children are from low-income urban neighborhoods and have little opportunity to garden or even be outdoors in a natural setting, other than at the Villa. 

Silver Spring International Middle School

We are seeking your support to help us start a school garden program for our middle school, which serves students in grades 6-8 in a highly diverse and urban area of Montgomery County. As an authorized International Baccalaureate World School that offers the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), we are committed to providing our students with inquiry-based, real-world problem solving in an international, intercultural context.

Jefferson Middle School

The garden at Jefferson is part of Kid Power's VeggieTime program, in which students connect academic lessons on nutrition and the environment to hands-on urban gardening activities. Kid Power students maintain 3 garden beds at Jefferson Middle School. Currently, students use the crop yield for 3 main purposes: 1) cooking lessons and demonstrations; 2) sale at local farmer's markets; and 3) home use for families. Revenue from produce sales fund youth-led nutritional service-learning projects. Due to funding limitations, Kid Power has not been able to expand the garden beds at Jefferson.

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