Garden Classrooms

Global Roots

  Global Roots is 501c3 non-profit organization registered in Washington State. The principal activity of Global Roots is to seek out and support individuals who have already recognized an environmental or humanitarian need in their local community. By erecting a state-of-the-art, drip-system greenhouse with adjoining chicken egg pens, Global Roots gives neglected children a chance to commune with nature as they grow their own vegetables and chicken eggs in after-school gardens.

Lowell School Learning Garden

 With support from the Watertown Community Foundation and Outdoor Nation, two fenced-in raised beds were installed by volunteers to create an outdoor classroom for 400 students, preK-5th grade. Students planted vegetables and herbs in the spring, and families tended the lush organic gardens during the summer. The summer harvest of eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes will be processed and stored for a fall pizza party for participating students. A fall harvest potluck will celebrate both the gardeners and the garden.

Gardens for Health International

What if doctors could prescribe seeds?

That is the basic premise of what Gardens for Health International is doing in Rwanda, and what we someday hope to do throughout East Africa. 

We partner with local health clinics in Rwanda to bring agriculture into the clinical treatment of malnutrition – so that families not only get the life saving medical intervention their children need in the short term, but they also get the seeds, livestock, education and support they need to feed their children and keep them healthy over the long term.

Greenhouse Gardening

We are growing vegetables and herbs in our recently built greenhouses.  We then prepare and eat them with the Life Skills Teacher to promote healthy eating habits.  This program involves the third - fifth grade students at our school planting the seeds, transplanting them into the greenhouses, and harvesting the mature plants before preparing them in the life skills classroom.

 

FFR Co-op Kids' Educational Garden

We are a new project, just getting started, that was seeded by a grassroots fellowship community project grant and in collaboration with our local parks district. Our goal is to inspire our community's children to eat better, preserve farm land, and get involved with their community.

Foodweb Education

 Foodweb Education is a gardens-based program that is currently developing a framework that teaches and reinforces fundamental ecological patterns such as energy flow and matter cycles. It aims to provide students with not just a set of behaviours, but tools for conscious adaptation within natural limits and a deep understanding of the processes that sustain life.

Leuzinger High School Culinary Careers Academy

 The Leuzinger High School Culinary Careers Academy provides students with relevant and integrated learning opportunities focused on food, nutrition, fitness, and the hospitality industry.

CCA curriculum is inquiry and project-based; learning occurs primarily in labs, kitchens, and collaborative groups. All CCA courses and activities are dedicated to developing students' academics, career skills and health and wellness for life beyond high school.

Groovy Grrls Collective

Groovy Grrls Collective is a non-profit community gathering space devoted to mentoring, educating, and supporting women.  The collective will open on September first, launching an after-school program, a mentor program, a music practice space, an art gallery, a library, and a common space for community programs, workshops, classes, lectures, and events. 

MontclairDIGS

The Montclair DIGS (District Initiative for Gardening in Schools) program, launched in spring 2012, is taking root at Montclair Public Schools.

Globe-Miami School Garden Project

 As an Americorps VISTA working through the Cooperative Extension, I am working with teachers and the superintendants throughout the Globe-Miami region in Arizona to start school gardens from scratch. Starting with a  pilot project at a local elementary school, we train the teachers and provide and reserach and resources for whichever added schools would like to join the movement. Teachers will receive the Master Gardener course at a discounted rate, and we provide specific curriculum on gardening instruction for different grade levels. 

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