Garden Classrooms

Kelly Middle School

The Kelly Middle School garden is a place where students, staff, parents, and community members grow, develop new skills, and engage in meaningful service together. The garden serves as a valuable teaching tool, where students may learn about a wide variety of topics, ranging from the science of photosynthesis to the art of nature writing to the mathematics involved in preparing a healthy meal. The garden allows students to interact with the natural world and learn through their senses and hands-on experiences in an outdoor space.

St David's Foundation Community Garden

With a permanent place to call home, SFC will be equipped to expand our programs such as Grow Local, our community and youth gardening program with roots dating back 40 years; create a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen and host community events from hands-on workshops to film screenings to public forums for change. In addition, a 2.3 acre community garden adjacent to the property will provide access for east side neighbors to grow their own food as well as children and families to learn the principles of organic food production. Here is a video describing the project:

Becker Elementary

Becker's Green Classroom is an 10,000 square foot organic garden providing outdoor education and nutrition classes for 315 Becker Elementary students and for 2,000 Fifth Graders from low income schools in Austin. Kids learn about growning food, nutrition, the seasons, composting, and more. We would like to add a child size kitchen in the Green Classroom's indoor classroom to expand our nutrition classes and to teach the kids how to cook what they grow in the garden.

Ford School Community Garden

Our gardens in Lynn represent two unique and diverse communities at the Robert L. Ford School and Ingalls Elementary School. Our goals are for both gardens to act as extensions of the classroom, providing resources and opportunities for teachers to integrate their existing curricula into an outdoor setting, while engaging kids in hand-on lessons about healthy eating and environmental stewardship.

Baranoff Elementary School

Baranoff Gardens include vegetable garden beds, a butterfly garden, and new native tree plantings. Recently, we added a native wildflower habitat. Goals include creating an outdoor learning space to host hands-on learning opportunities for students such as planting, harvesting, cooking, rainwater harvesting; and teaching the use of Texas native plants to beautify our school home. We'd like to build garden shed and arbor, cut flower beds, and crushed granite paths.

Jonathan D. Hyatt P.S. 154x

P.S. I54x is a Title one elementary school in the South Bronx. Our school is located in a high poverty area and many of our students live in the neighboring housing projects. In the winter of 2011 P.S. 154x received a garden grant from Grow to Learn. Our school planted five raised garden beds and harvested cucumbers, raspberries, herbs and much more. The garden is a wonderful presence in our urban area and has helped cut back on litter and vandalism on the school grounds. Our hope for the upcoming school year is to expand the school garden into a outdoor classroom.

Atlanta Preparatory Academy

Atlanta Preparatory Academy (APA) is a public charter school and its Parent Teacher Organization has a parent-led Edible Schoolyard Committee, which has been developing a

Des Moines School Garden Network

This project will build an inter-school peer learning network for school gardens in Des Moines, Iowa. The network will facilitate resource sharing, camaraderie, and provide an entry point for schools wishing to start a school garden. It will also serve as a platform from which any school can observe and learn from the successes from six demonstration school gardens in Des Moines.

PS 24 K Garden

The PS 24K Garden is a place where local children learn about the growth, taste and health benefits of vegetables, and practice first-hand preparing the vegetables for snacks and meals. The program helps children to build healthy habits that last a lifetime. The children who participate share their knowledge with their parents and the community, increasing nutrition awareness and encouraging healthy eating.

Every Child Outdoor Youth Garden

This garden is currently funded through a diabetes-prevention grant from the state of Tennessee. Its future depends on continuing to receive grants and donations. Built to serve the nearby schools of inner-city East Knoxville, the mission of the ECO garden is to inspire children, specifically poor urban black children, to eat more vegetables and get more physical exercise. The garden is surrounded by food deserts

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