Garden Classrooms

Aviva Family And Children Services

 Working with youth in a Group Home setting to create a theraputic garden and kitchen garden.  We share one morning a week in a small group working in the garden, talking about healthy lifestyle habits and enjoying the outdoor space.  At the school the science teacher uses the garden as a tool for life sciences learning.  It is one of the spaces where the youth feel completely comfortable and safe.  

The IPS/Butler University Laboratory School Garden

 We currently have 9 garden boxes, an outdoor classroom, a three tiered compost system, three chickens, an orchard, and rain garden in our urban setting. We use the garden as a teaching tool to not only teach about sustainability, plant propogation, and life cycles, but also integrate it into our curriculum as much as we can. We are looking to find ways to continually use our program in meaningful ways that are beneficial not only to the children, but to our families, teachers, and surrounding community members.

Veggielution School Garden Program

We currently work at 2 local Elementary Schools, Goss and McKinley, to offer outdoor and hands on education in our School Gardens Program. Through their school garden classes, every child in these schools gets to learn about a myriad of subjects from math and science to botany and the environment. These classes offer students a chance to get out of the classroom and learn about the world around them through tangible experiences and interdisciplinary learning.

South Education Center Schoolyard Garden (Richfield, Minnesota)

 SEC organic garden was initiated by Terry Guthrie with the support of The City of Bloomington's SHIP (Statewide Health Improvement Program) in 2009.  The garden supports curriculum engagment, cafeteria integration, community outreach and building-wide participation.  SEC Organic Garden is the flagship garden and serves as a model for future endeavors in Intermediate District 287.

Island Grown Schools

 Island Grown Schools is Martha's Vineyard Farm to School Program.  We work with almost every schoolage child on the island, from 2-18 years old, at all seven K-12 schools and at six island pre-schools.  We have installed and support gardens at all 13 of our partner schools, work with cafeteria staff to bring locally sourced meat and produce to school meals at every school, collaborate with classroom teachers to lead farm, gaden, and nutrition-based curriculum-tied lessons, and lead field trips to island family farms.  

Parks Foundation Calgary Horticultural Program

Our Horticultural Program works towards community development using gardening. We partner with other organizations to engage diverse groups of participants who are responsible for the care and cultivation of five gardens around the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Participants learn how to grow their own edible gardens full of vegetables, herbs and flowers and also learn ways to use the items they have grown.

 

Organic Ninjas

 We are currently in the process of forming our non-profit and am looking to connect with the community to find out how we can get started. We are looking to create organic sustainable greenhouses on school premises, along with gardening classes/kitchen classes... etc. Thank you for any information and knowledge you can contribute to us! We are humbly grateful! :)

Greenwood School Garden

Greenwood School Garden currently features six raised beds (one for each class level) and is working on integrating growing vegetables into the school curriculum as well as using the garden to teach children about healthy eating. 

Oscar Mayer Magnet School Garden Project

The Garden Project oversees a number of programs here Oscar Mayer Magnet School, a Chicago Public Elementary School in the heart of the city. We have started a lunchroom composting program, planted four award-winning gardens on school grounds (including a bio-diverse native Illinois garden in conjunction with DePaul University), we have six chickens living in a custom coop in front of the school and we just installed two beehives. Our school serves students ages 3 years old to the 8th grade and we have both the Montessori curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program.

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