Garden Classrooms

Slide Ranch

Slide Ranch Mission
The mission of Slide Ranch is to connect children to nature. Slide Ranch teaches visitors the impact our choices have on food, health, and the environment, through hands-on activities and independent exploration of our farm and coastal wild lands.

Every bite of food connects us to the soil, sun, water, and air, and to the people who work to feed us. Slide Ranch teaches respect and responsibility for sustaining these connections.

Create Common Good

 Create Common Good uses food to change lives and build healthy communities. Our vision is a healthy community where people have access to empowerment, employment, self-sufficiency and access to healthy food. We use access to healthy food to positively change people's lives by harnessing the community's resources to build lasting systems that provide employment and self-sufficiency. Our training programs all prepare at-risk, underserved populations to find, perform, and retain work with the ultimate goal of self-sufficiency in our community.

Laurelhurst K-8 Garden

Edible garden developed in 2009; butterfly garden developed in 2001.

Haddon Heights Elementary School Garden Program

 Our program includes school gardens at each of the three elementary schools in the Haddon Heights School district. We have classroom gardens with participating teachers as well as an after school "Seed to Salad" program in the spring. 

Grow Dat Youth Farm

The Mission of the Grow Dat Youth Farm is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food. On our farm we work collaboratively to produce healthy food for local residents and to inspire youth and adults to create personal, social and environmental change in their own communities. Grow Dat is a place where people from different backgrounds and disciplines come together in research and practice to support public health, local economies and a sustainable food system in South Louisiana.

Pacific Elementary School Life Lab and Food Lab

 Pacific Elementary School's Life Lab Garden and Food Lab Program serve pre-schoolers through sixth grade.

Our school garden is ran by teacher, teacher's aides, and parent/community volunteers. We grow produce and flowers for use in the Food Lab Program. 

Our Food Lab Program prepares school lunch everyday of the year with help of 5th-6th grade students. Food Lab students plan and prepare our school lunch. It is a truly unique program.

Enrich LA

EnrichLA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring edible gardens and orchards into public schools across Los Angeles. With the help of the school community, community members and corporate partners, we build each garden by hand. Our gardens serve students in pre-k through grade 12 and have a variety of unique features. Many of our sites have grape arbors, outdoor classroom spaces, picnic benches, outdoor kitchens, dry creek beds and raised and in-ground fruit and vegetable beds.

Malcolm L. Bell Elementary School

We broke ground in April, 2013 and with the help of many dedicated parents and other community members, the garden was up and running by the end of May!  We have approximately 5000 square feet of land.

Bluff Park Elementary

Our gardening program began as part of an Outdoor Classroom. We continue to grow and look for methods of involving our students in hands on learning to undergird making healthy food choices.

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