Garden Classrooms

Columbian Elementary

We will maintain a large schoolyard garden at Columbian Elementary School in the heart of north Denver and educate students and families about gardening and healthy eating. The garden is maintained by paid high school students from neighboring North High School, who help run an after school and summer program to inspire and teach elementary school students about fresh food, science, and healthy living. Columbian students run a farm stand to provide fresh, affordable food to the community and learn business skills.

Ann Visger K-5 Preparatory Academy

Through the generous support of the Whole Kids Foundation, Wayne Metro will construct a new garden at Ann Visger Academy with the goal of creating a new outdoor learning environment that integrates hands-on gardening activities with school curriculum and community life.

The garden will help Wayne Metro empower students and community residents to:

1) Increase student engagement with fresh fruits and vegetables through hands-on gardening activities;

2) Increase student academic achievement through gardening activities that reinforce school curriculum;

King Elementary School

The goal of the Urban Garden is educating school age youth and the production of community gardens/farmer markets in a neighborhood that is considered a food desert. This project will assist in the expansion of our existing Urban Agriculture training program to include completing a 7,500 square foot outdoor education garden to teach environmental education skills to youth from 4-6 public schools through the lens of urban gardening.

PS 90 Edna Cohen

First and foremost, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, our goal this year is to rebuild our garden following its destruction and flooding on October 29th, 2012. The garden was started in the 2011-2012 school year and has become an integral part of the YW

Loma Vista Environmental Science Academy

We seek to increase students' knowledge of nature and nutrition while enhancing academic learning, ecoliteracy, and psychosocial development. Loma Vista Farm is a five acre, real, working farm. There are 3 horses, 3 sheep, 1 alpaca, 3 pigs, 2 cows, 8 rabbits, 8 goats, and over 100 chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and guineas. There is over an acre in vegetable, herb, native, and orchard plants and a pond. The greenhouse is 30'x120' and we have an indoor classroom with a kitchen and two bathrooms.

Roots & Culture

 Roots & Culture is an aspiring garden and nutrition education program serving urban youth in Oakland with a focus on food justice.  

John Philip Sousa Elementary School

 An outdoor garden space where students help parent volunteers and teachers tend and grow organic vegetables and flowers. Younger students grow plants that attract butterflies and create bird feeders in the fall. Older students plant bulbs, vegetables, herbs and complimentary flowers. The goal is to teach students how plants grow, how to grow their own food, learn about composting and garden maintenance. 

EduCulture

EduCulture bridges local farms, classrooms, lunchrooms and the larger food community through edible education programs that foster scholarship, stewardship, citizenship and sustainability. EduCulture is partnering schools and farms, transforming working landscapes into landscapes of learning, and utilizing our community as curriculum. Our edible education programs are serving academic needs, while growing produce for school and community food streams.

Commodore Options School - Odyssey Multiage Program

The elementary/middle school program within Commodore Options School--the multiage, alternative, choice school in Bainbridge Island School District--Odyssey 1-6 gave up a chunk of playground to create a garden space that now includes rich soil, a greenhouse, a shed, fruit, vegetables, flowers, herbs, and a brand new orchard. We developed a school garden to raise student awareness of where food comes from, how enjoyable it is to grow, and how fun and nutritious it is to eat.

West Riverside Elementary School Community Garden

Founded in 1911, West Riverside Elementary School (WRES) is the oldest continuously operated elementary school in Florida. Our Mission at The WRES Garden, is to teach students how to grow, prepare and enjoy vegetables and fruits. This involves all aspects of farming the garden in a sustainable manner, including planning, planting, nurturing, harvesting, preparing and eating. These skills help our students connect classroom subjects to hands on activities that help to develop and nurture the whole child.

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