Garden Classrooms

Lincoln Green Thumbs @ Lincoln Elementary School Garden

The Lincoln Elementary Green Thumbs Garden is located in the small, rural town of Bedford, Indiana.  Our garden originally began as a project for Mrs. Hooten’s 5th grade class back in 2014. They rented a plot at the Bedford Community Garden and took field trips throughout the spring and summer to plant, weed, & harvest.  In 2016, we were able to begin a new program, Lincoln Green Thumbs.

Wagner Ranch School Garden

~~First I will explain a little bit about us.  We have recently been given an area of around a quarter acre of land by the local school district to develop for our school site as a learning outdoor garden classroom.  Previously this land was part of a greater nature area which the district and community uses for district environmental education programs and nature-related festivals.  The area is alive with native plants, like coffeeberry,  ceanothus, teasel, willow, heritage champagne grapes and oaks which have been central to the environmental education programs, but there are several area

Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School & Kokua Hawai'i Foundation 'Aina In Schools

Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School (LEPCS) is engaging students in the garden and healthy nutritional habits while implementing the Kokua Hawaii Foundation Aina in the Schools Program(KHF).

Junior Master Gardener Grey Stone Demonstration Garden

The JMG prgram teaches children about vegetable gardening, organic gardening, environmental stewardship, native animal habitats, healthy food choices and other related topics.The goal is to connect young people to the earth and through this connectiveness establish a grounding that is often overlooked when focused on excelling solely on academics.  The JMG program also achknowledges that not all children learn in a traditional setting.  The JMG program supports experimental learning, accepts failure as a part of the learing process, uses analysis to understand why the failure occurred and c

Laurel Tree Charter School

Laurel Tree Charter School is a K-12 family-style school in Arcata, Ca. We serve a diverse range of students from different social economic and cultural backgrounds. Our mission is to create a sustainable model of education which provides all students with accessible curriculum, based on college preparatory standards, while developing life and social skills in a mixed age setting.

The Seed Community Food Hub

The Seed Community Food Project is an initiative aimed at increasing community food security in Guelph, Ontario. We are currently a project of the Guelph Community Health Centre (CHC)- with plans to establish ourselves as an independent non-profit organzation in the next three years.

Grow to Learn and Governors Island Teaching Garden

As part of GrowNYC’s Greening department, both Grow to Learn and the Governors Island Teaching Garden aim to use urban gardens as a space for exploration, experiential learning and community building. Grow to Learn is the citywide school gardens initiative for New York City. We work with public and charter schools to ensure that gardens are sustainable teaching resources in the long term, responsive to each individual community’s vision and needs, and transformative for student learning in the cafeteria, classroom, and beyond.

FRESHFARM FoodPrints Program

What is FoodPrints?

FoodPrints is FRESHFARM Market’s food education program that aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through highly engaging, hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking and eating nutritious, local foods in season.   We work in partnership with administrators and teachers to ensure that FoodPrints is a relevant, enriching program that teaches Common Core, Next Generation Science and DCPS/OSSE Health standards, and that adapts to the unique curricular goals of each school we partner with.

Seattle Parks & Recreation's Urban Food Systems Program

Seattle Parks & Recreation’s mission is to provide welcoming and safe opportunities to play, learn, contemplate & build community, and promote responsible stewardship of the land. The Urban Food Systems Program’s core value is to be a learning organization that creates opportunities for the most-impacted communities to equitably and powerfully engage with local, sustainable food systems. Good Food Gardens serve communities with significant Southeast Asian, East African, African American, and Latino populations in central and south Seattle.

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