Garden Classrooms

Dirt To Dish

Our program is a raw juice cooperative that only vends at farmers markets, local events and deliveries. Our raw juice cooperative is a non-profit fundraising vehicle to raise money and sustain our after school program aimed to open in Bayview-Hunter's Point district, San Francisco. Our tentative garden space is in the Bayview District and is currently in the administrative processing stage. Delegation of the area is to be used for our edible and educational garden. Our program will be hosted by a Family Childcare Licensed Home in the Bayview District in close proximity to our garden. 

Hinsdale School Outdoor Classroom

The Hinsdale School "Outdoor Classroom" was constructed by the FFA. The outdoor classroom has a passive solar greenhouse, four raised beds and three low tunnels. The program is educating children and community members about gardening and growing your own food. The produce is used in the school cafeteria.
 

 

Billy Mitchell Elementary School

Billy Mitchell Elementary School is one of eight schools in the Lawndale Elementary School District, Los Angeles County, California. We are continuously evolving our curriculum and instructional program to meet the needs of our students. A reflection of that is in our garden and nutrition program. All of our students are the stewards of this garden under the guidance and supervision of our Master Gardener and parent and community volunteers. Experience has taught us that student ownership of a garden is a key to success.

Aveson Charter Schools

We are in Altadena, CA. We were founded in 2007.

SANCHEZ COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

 

Learning By Doing At Sanchez School In San Francisco’s Mission District: Nutrition, Science and Community

 

Sanchez College Preparatory School’s vision for connecting classroom learning with education outside deepened during a visit to Sanchez School by Carlo Petrini, Founder of an international organization known as Slow Food. Mr. Petrini* and Dr. Isola, the former principal of Sanchez College Preparatory School, developed a School Community Development tool that incorporated five key elements.

Growing Together

 We are a public charter Montessori school located in the San Francisco Bay Area and established in 2002.  Our school garden started as just one raised bed and now houses ten raised beds of edibles including culinary herbs and seasonal vegetables, in addition to over a dozen fruit trees, a greenhouse, and native and drought tolerant shrubs.  All students at the school have an hour or more of garden time each week and take care of the routine maintenance ncluding watering, weeding, mulching and other chores as necessary.

Detroit Leadership Academy

We are a Detroit Charter School with a small 12 plot garden which is planted and harvested by the   students each season.

Alta Vista Specials Sprouts

At Alta VIsta we hope to infuse improved healthy food awareness along with the impact this has on their lives. The Students will research, design, implement, maintain, and harvest the garden. This will provide hands-on learning that will involve interdisciplinary education. The garden will provide a source of self-esteem and self-worth while building cooperation skills. The garden will build social skills, addresses multiple learning styles and will promote good nutrition that will last a lifetime.

H. B. Slaughter Elementary School

Our school’s gardening program began in 2011.  We have expanded the program each school year and we currently have 24 raised garden beds. We have 12 – 2’ high half barrels, 6 – 3’ x 3’ beds, and 6 - 8’ beds.   Each kindergarten and first grade class has its own garden space (barrels and 3’ x 3’ units).  2nd through 5th grade classes collaborate and share garden space by grade level. 

Albert Einstein Academies

 Our garden program started with some fruit trees donated by the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and parents building an edible garden next to the lunch arbor. We continued to build the orchard and many gardens throughout the campus including six international gardens.

Our garden educator with volunteers teaches biweeekly classes to the 3rd grade and kinder classes, 8 classes. Other grades intergrate gardening, nutrition, environmental education occasionally.

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