Garden Classrooms

Crane School

We have three gardens on our campus: the upper garden classroom beds and chicken coop, the lower garden- a traditional garden plot, and the Crane Country Farm- a hydroponic garden, designed with the goal that they serve as a collection of outdoor classrooms to teach our students an appreciation of nature, put the fundamentals of the scientific method in to practice and encourgage healthy food choices. 

Monte del Sol Charter School

Monte del Sol is a charter school that was founded under principles of sustainablity; a school garden fits well into the school's values. The mission of the garden program is to engage students in integrated, experiential lessons in an outdoor study area; to create, in collaboration with students, a productive, sustainable, organic garden; to instill values, grow stewardship, and promote activism regarding issues of food, environmental, and social justice; and to encourage critical thinking concerning personal health and diet.

Montessori Gardens

II have launched several seed to table programs in New York and New Jersey Montessori schools. I plan to have a classroom start in August I have acess to an organic community garden that I will start planting with students.

Our goal is to work in a Montessori environment that incorporates all aspects of life.Planning,planting,tending,harvesting and prepairing meals from our garden to introduce children(and community) to delicious and nutricious local organic foods are life long skills that start at an early age.

Jose Barrios Elementary Outdoor Classroom

The state of New Mexico is often a topic of conversation when describing poor states in America. New Mexico has one of the highest teen birth rates and child poverty percentages. These issues affect New Mexico as a whole, but in Silver City New Mexico the conversation is a little different. Often, not only does Silver City, which is a small town five hours south of Albuquerque, have to deal with state issues; the town as well has to cope with the lack of resources, lack of jobs, and a loss of land due to government policies and gentrification.

Greenock Elementary School Garden

Chris Estadt and Gail Fleckenstein, teachers at Greenock Elementary School, started the garden in 2012 with funds provided by the Parent Teacher Organization. All teachers throughout the school year along with a summer program teach classes. Our school, which houses kindergarten through second grade, benefits from the garden by aligning common core standards and food literacy into the school environment. Students work in the garden, from planning to planting, and from harvest to table.

Cindy's garden to Table

Cindy's Garden to Table is a business interested in educating youth and adults about the importance of nutrition and health for the family and individual. Cindy's mission is to educate children and adults about the importance of diet to their overall health. By eating a whole foods plant-based diet we can heal our bodies and achieve optimal health. By teaching a love of organic gardening and cooking that uses fresh, seasonal ingredients, we can learn to enjoy our food choices, and heal our bodies and our planet.

Apple Seeds

Apple Seeds is a non-profit whose mission is to get students excited about fruits and vegetables through garden nutrition education. 

We have a farm where we host common-core aligned field trips and farm to table events with students. 

On our farm we grow produce for our school farmer's markets, which are a cheap access point to fresh food and a great learning opportunity. Our produce is also sold to Fayetteville Public Schools' Seed to Student Program. 

Upper Canada College Learning Garden

The UCC Learning Garden began in 2005, based on an initiative among the students, staff, teachers and community.  Our mission in the garden is to integrate food, culture, curriculum and culture.  We are an urban, all-boys independent school, from sk-grade 12.  Our 35 acre campus was filled with manicured green spaces, but there were no places for children to explore and connect with earth.  While our student population is affluent, conversations about food revealed that most boys only saw food coming from groceries stores.

Habersham Central High School Edible School Garden

HCHS created an edible garden in 2014, with support from Northeast Georgia Farm to School. The garden is mainly utilized by the school's culinary arts program, whose students use the garden to learn about how to cultivate, harvest, and use fresh and local produce. The HCHS Farm to School team has plans to expand the edible garden space to include fruiting bushes and trees in the spring of 2016.

Level Grove Elementary School Garden

Level Grove's school garden was built in the fall of 2015 with help from Northeast Georgia Farm to School. Level Grove's Farm to School team has taught multiple standards-based, garden-themed lessons across grade levels and disciplines, and has expanded their garden area to include vermicomposting, a compost tumbler (for a limited number of cafeteria scraps), and a weather station.

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