Garden Classrooms

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

Harmony Science Academy

A school garden at Harmony Science Academy Elementary would serve many educational purposes. Students will become responsible caretakers while learning about the agricultural processes and interactions of living and non-living things that help sustain life. It will also serve to aid in teaching students about healthy lifestyles and what they eat. Students can also learn about composting, life cycles and eating in season.

El Camino Real High School

El Camino Real High School is a Model Alternative Designation High School. The goal of the garden is to create a teaching environment by establishing a compost, worm farm and a raised garden. Helping needy students and members of the community with our harvest and providing community service hours required by all students. Loud Jumpy Kids (LJK Cares, Inc.)will be working with the high school to give an added purpose, and provide a unique experience for everyone. (photos and video to follow)

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