Garden Classrooms

Sweet Potato Kids, Inc.

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.

High Tech High Media Arts Community Garden

Seniors in 12th grade Environmental Science are the caretakers of the High Tech High Media Arts (HTHMA) Community Garden, a 5000 square foot garden and orchard space. Each semester, students embark on projects that both develop and maintain this space as a community resource and local model of sustainability, all the while growing food with purpose. We have developed a pilot CSA and Farmers' Market program, and are working with our school and local community to move toward zero waste. 

Acequia Madre Elementary School Garden Program

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.

Sierra House Growing Domes, Sierra House Elementary

 At Sierra House Elementary our 500+ students have the wonderful opportunity of gardening at high elevation in the Sierra House Growing Domes. After many years of hard work and fundraising, two high-tech geodesic growing domes were built at Sierra House in Nov. 2014.  The domes are geodesic and are 18 feet in diameter. We can have 10 students at a time in each dome.  An associated sustainable vegetable garden with 10 raised beds have been built.

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.

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