Garden Classrooms

Black Pine Circle School

Black Pine Circle School (BPC), an independent K-8 school in Berkeley, California, creates lifelong learners through an inquiry-based Socratic education that places equal emphasis on academics and the arts.

BPC's garden program started in 1997 with the hiring of a dedicated garden and landscape worker who expanded her role (and created the garden program) by collaborating with teachers to bring garden and environmental education to the school's students. She also supported the installation of recycling and composting infrastructure around the school. 

I Made That Nutrition/Gardening

We have just entered our I Made That thematic unit. One of the tracts, is "I Made That Nutrition" We have broken that down to Gardening, Nutrition Science, Cooking Skills, Culture, etc... 

Skokie School Courtyard Garden & Happy Tillers Garden Club

In 2015 - 2016, Happy Tillers Garden Club staff and students collaborated to design, build, construct, and implement an extended school year organic gardening program. An indoor nursery was created to raise the seedlings, which were transplanted in April and May. Every child planted a seed in the spring, so that when they returned in the fall they could witness a physical manifestation of our school community. Produce was donated to the New Trier Township Food Pantry to support the nutrition of local residents.

The Giving Garden at Kutztown Elementary School

The Giving Garden at Kutztown Elementary School is a resource for students and teachers to cultivate vegetables and herbs, learn about nature and the environment, and sample produce within the walls of their school. Raised beds for each grade, a native plant area, and a rain garden fill the school's inner courtyard with all kinds of life and turn an unused space into one that is full of learning opportunities and enjoyment.

Kids in the Ambassador’s Kitchen

Since 2009, the Residence at Embassy Bern has conducted programs for children in the Kitchen Garden on the east side of the property. Students learn how foods are harvested, become conscious of the environmental advantages of eating locally grown fresh foods, and are taught the best ways to cook foods in order to preserve their nutritional value.

Orangevale Open Community Garden

We have a school garden and orchard that we are improving this year.  It was about 300 square meters and we are going to make it close to 400 square meters this weekend.  I take my 7/8 graders out every Friday. We have teamed up with 3,4, and 6 th grade classes at the start of this year and are looking to get every student involved.

 

 

Rocketship Los Sueños School Garden

Our school garden serves 500 students from grades K-5. It contains 12 beds and an open learning space where I teach a daily curriculum of life sciences, earth sciences, nutrition, gardening, and more.

Pepin Academies Green Thumbs Garden

The Pepin Academies Garden is used in our culinary classes and across a variety of academic classes. The garden utilizes organic and water conserving gardening methods.

Highland Hall Waldorf School

The campus of Highland Hall Waldorf School includes a biodynamic garden comprised of 24 raised vegetable beds, medicinal and culinary herb gardens, medieval dye and fiber gardens, row crop fields, perennial berry beds, fruit tree orchard and permaculture food forest, monarch sanctuary, bee hives and chickens.

The Montessori School at Hampstead

Montessori School at Hampstead (MSH) is a private, non-profit school in Montgomery, Alabama offering children in central Alabama an exceptional education based on proven Montessori principles.

MSH is governed by a dedicated Board of Directors and began operations in August 2011. MSH seeks to develop tomorrow’s leaders by encouraging critical thinking through an experiential curriculum with focuses on environmental stewardship and global studies.

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