Garden Classrooms

New Hope Christian Academy Urban Farm

New Hope Christian Academy is a private school located in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. We have been doing small gardens since 2000. In 2013 we began to convert an acre vacant lot into an urban farm. Students participate in the planting, caring, and harvesting of the Farm produce. We have a weekly Garden Club of highly interested students, as well as many classes using the Farm for more traditional lessons.

Rocketship Mosaic School Garden

Rocketship Mosaic is a public charter school in East San Jose, CA, serving students from Kinder-5th grade. The garden was founded in the fall of 2013 with 13 raised beds where students grow, taste and take home fresh fruits and vegetables. The garden is also a classroom where students apply learning from all subject areas, and where students with all learning abilities succeed. Students reconnect with the natural world, inspiring a sense of stewardship for the school and our planet.

Shaw Elementary School

Shaw Elementary seeks to utilize the courtyard of our school to share scientific learning of plant cycles, environments, wildlife patters, life cycles and multiple other research and discovery based topics with our students!

Joan Austin School Garden

We have a school garden with 8 raised bed boxes.  Through a Fiskar grant we got the garden planted and growing for this summer 2016.  Teachers will collaborate on how to use the garden beds for the coming year Sept-June 2016-17.  An urban forest is in the planning stages, and is going to be added on the same site as the garden.

Pathways for Children

Students have to complete seed-to-fork experiences every year: Fall Harvest Day and spring Salad Days. 

Top-school program Nordio

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We trying use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Edible Schoolyard Kern County

The Edible Schoolyard Kern County is a program supported through the Grimm Family Education Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit, based in Bakersfield, California. Working with students, teachers and parents, the Foundation supports initiatives to improve education and wellness in Kern County. The mission of the Foundation is: Through our charter schools and Edible Schoolyards, we will close the achievement gap, graduating students at or above grade level in literacy and math, improve the health of students and families and create economic impact in the communities that we serve.

DC Bilingual Public Charter School

DC Bilingual PCS is a spanish-english bilingual school serving DC students in PreK-5th grade. We have a spacious outdoor classroom with an herb garden, an edible garden and cooking space, butterfly and pollinator gardens, and more. Our garden is a rich educational space that supports learning in all subject areas in addition to being an important green, growing haven for our urban students and families.

Ready-to-Grow Gardens

Ready-to-Grow Gardens is an edible garden company that specializes in helping others grow organic vegetables, herbs and fruit all year in Miami/South Florida.

We help others grow food as locally as possible by designing, installing and maintaining edible gardens for homes, schools, restaurants, offices, and public spaces.

We also provide a wide range of  supplies one might need for your garden, including compost, organic fertilizer, mulch, and an excellent selection of  fruit, vegetable, and herb plants.

Blue Adobe Project dba Sky Islands school

Sky Islands is an eco-focused independent public high school, non-profit and part of the Local First Arizona movement, and working to develop a 12-acre urban campus sustainably using permaculture practices.  We are in the process of developing a garden kitchen program and bringing our school kitchen up to code to work as a teaching kitchen.  We are developing cooking classes so that students can prepare slow food, healthy lunches with the help of local farmer's markets and the Tucson Food Bank.  By the end of this year we should have a producing seasonal garden from which to pick our own fo

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