Garden Classrooms

The mission of Green City Market is to improve the availability of a diverse range of high quality foods through connecting local producers and farmers to chefs, food organizations, and the greater Chicagoland community.  Green City Market achieves this mission by supporting small family farms and through providing education to adults and children about local, fresh, sustainably raised produce and products. Green City Market aims to create a sustainable food system in Chicago through our markets, outreach, and educational programming.

On March 7th, 2016, we introduce and implement our Seed2Plate initiative at Red Bay Primary with 30 students as a pilot program. We will run the program for 12 weeks (until the end of the year) while fundraising for the program to be in other public schools for the fall. In our weekly class we will tend to the garden and learn about elements like composting, weeding, greenhouses, critters, installing vertical growing units, soil viability and how to grow foods that can thrive in our tropical environment.

Sweet Potato Kids, Inc. is a social enterprise and MBE certified small business providing early learning, after-school and summer camp programming. We are located in Randallstown, Maryland (Baltimore County). We service Title 1 schools in the neighboring communities and 25% of our students receive free and or reduced lunch. Our student population is 98% African American. It is our sincerest goal to decrease the disparity in the achievement gap as it relates to minority students. During the school year, we service 60 students and summer camp, 100 students.

The Mission of the Acequia Madre School Garden Program is to create and sustain a beautiful school garden and nature center where children and families enjoy and learn hands-on the connections between food, health, and the environment. The School Garden serves the 180 children (5-12 yrs, grades K-6) of Acequia Madre Elementary School and their families. These services are provided during the school day, after-school, during community events and in the summer garden camp programs.