Garden Classrooms

Hale Kipa

All of the youth Hale Kipa serves have suffered trauma in one form or another, mostly through abuse, neglect or both. These traumatized youth suffer in school, in social circles and have been involved in the juvenile justice system. Many of these youth have dropped out of school or are far behind their peers, have had little positive adult influences in their lives and their health and health behaviors are poor. Hale Kipa has just launched an educational program to help these youth catch up with their classwork -- or reengage -- while they are in our shelters.

Good Food for Oxford Schools

Good Food for Oxford Schools (GFOS) is an initiative of the Oxford School District in Oxford, Mississippi to improve cafeteria menus and simultaneously educate students and their families.

Overseen by the Food Services Department of the Oxford School System, GFOS leverages “farm to school” principles to bring local farm produce into school cafeterias that serve more cooked-from-scratch and fresh menu items.

Working in the classroom with students, and with families after school, GFOS teaches the importance of a nutrient-rich diet that utilizes local foods when available.

"Growing Your Own Produce" - Our Community, Our commitment

 At Chad Varah Primary School all our teaching and learning is project-based and from February to June 2013 the topic in our Year 6 class is based on growing your own produce. Everything we are learning about is focused around this topic whether it has a maths focus to an art focus. We are aiming to grow our own fruit and vegetables to harvest in June as we are planning on entering a local school's challenge set by organisers of the Lincolnshire Show.

CPCS School Garden

 We have a school garden with a greenhouse and several raised beds for growing produce. Our produce is used to supplement our cafeteria salad bar. We also have two chickens Sunshine and Comet who eat some of our lunch scraps and help us put eggs on our salad bar.

Johnson Elementary School

 Johnson Elementary School is a part of  the Charlottesville School District. City Schoolyard Garden, a non-profit organization. serves as an umbrella organization to create and manage edible schoolyards at all of the city's schools.  Presently in Charlottesville, City Schoolyard Garden oversees, maintains and provides garden-based curriculum for six elementary schools, Johnson, Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Venable and Clark and one middle school, Buford.

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