Garden Classrooms

Apollo Middle School

The Daniel Torres Reading Garden is a school-based garden initially designed to educate students about basic growing concepts. It is also an environment intended to inspire students to read. We are currently expanding the project to incorporate hydroponic growing and compost fertilizing, as well as developing a larger growing section of vegetation rather than flowers in order to serve as a community garden in the future. Our larger vision for this project is to develop a hands-on learning environment that is sustainable long-term, and that will serve a larger communal purpose.

SuperChefs Cookery for Kids

 SuperChefs Cookery for Kids teaches kids about the benefit of healthy eating, the fun of cooking and inspiring other kids to join in on the fun! By working with several age groups, then involving them in Culinary Food shows (Eat!Vancouver which attracts 40,000 foodies, and Fusion Festival in Surrey BC which has over 100,000 visit during three days in July), our SuperChefs Kids get to learn and cook with local and International Chefs and learn the fun and simplicity of eating local fresh healthy food.

Kinder-GARDEN ing and more

 Our 4th  grade book buddies assist our Kindergartners with choosing the plants to grow each season. But, the original garden was designed by me. It has since been expanded and we have improved it each year. I used a book entitled Schoolyard Garden Mosaics as inspiration, but I work with a limited budget each year, so I just dream of having gardens like those displayed in the book.

Upper Mississippi Academy Edible Schoolyard

 The Edible Schoolyard is one of four Experiential Learning Pathways that frame the learning program at Upper Mississippi Academy.   We have a teaching kitchen on our campus and all students participate in garden and culinary classes on a regular basis. Our school is interdisciplinary and mulit-dimensional and the outcomes and the values of the Edible Schoolyard Experiential Learning Pathway will be incorporated into all content areas and grade levels.

Common Ground Garden

The Common Ground Garden, a project of Ecology Action, seeks to transform students' and visitors' relationship to food in their lives by inspiring and empowering them to explore mindful eating, to make healthy, sustainable and just food choices, and ultimately to grow their own food through biologically-intensive, more sustainable gardening. We seek to actively engage the local and regional community through educational programming.

Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School -Courtyard Garden

 Barnard's Courtyard Garden is a hub of activity in an inner city school that has a Environmental Theme.  Children enjoy gardening activities and teachers use the courtyard as an outdoor classroom for various projects.  

Parkdale Community Garden

 Our garden is a large enclosed vegetable garden, it is a learning garden on the grounds of an elementary school.  During the summer months we have local families adopt the garden for a week at a time to maintain the garden.  During the school year we have volunteers meet with classes in the garden and we have an after school garden club.

Richmond College Prep Elementary School-Grandpa Allen Learning Garden

          The Richmond College Prep Elementary School in located in Richmond, California.  It has two large gardens on its campus, the Grandpa Allen Learning Garden (GALG) on the Maritime side, and another large one on the Portables side of the campus.  In the gardens students learn hands-on farming practices such as planting, harvesting, weeding, watering, and seed saving. Through these activities, they follow a project based curriculum practicing Math, Science, English, History, and Art.

Green School Bali

Green School is an international school in Bali, Indonesia, with approximately 300 students in Pre-K through Grade 12. These include fee-paying students from 40 countries and other parts of Indonesia, along with local Balinese children who attend via a scholarship program. Our commitment to sustainable practices earned us the Center for Green Schools at the US Green Building Council's innagural award as the “Greenest School on Earth”.

Grass Valley Charter School Garden

The mission of the Science Garden at Grass Valley Charter School is to provide quality lessons in gardening and science to the students of Grass Valley Charter School. We hope to open the space up to the other schools in our district very soon. Every student from Pre-K through 6th grade attends 45 minute weekly garden classes. The classes often teach Science Standards through the lens of gardening. 

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