Garden Classrooms

Place-based Learning and Community Engagement in Schools

Who We Are

PLACES is an exciting collaborative venture between schools along the Wai'anae Coast of Oahu, Hawaii, the University of Hawaii, Manoa's Office of Student Equity, Excellence & Diversity (SEED), and the local community of Wai'anae and Oahu. The project is funded through the Department of Education, Native Hawaiian Education Program.

 

What We Do

New Heights in Learning

New Heights in Learning creates hands-on, real-world learning environments in a wide range of settings. Our model of learning is centered on motivating and engaging both achieving and underachieving students by connecting meaningful hands-on learning experiences to classroom activities and state standards. This is done by connecting education to the context of real world experiences.

Green City Growers

Green City Growers transforms unused space into thriving urban farms, providing our clients with immediate access to nutritious food, while revitalizing city landscapes and inspiring self-sufficiency. We envision a world where rooftops and vacant lots become common and productive places to grow food – an agricultural revolution for a healthier nation.

Los Gatos High School Agroecology and Culinary Program

The Agroecology program at Los Gatos High School focuses on the sustainable cultivation of annual edible and ornamental plants, while the Culinary program focuses on the diverse food cultures from around the world.  These programs collaborate throughout the year, and have the aspiration of including the school cafeteria as part of their curriculum.

Composting, biodiversity, seed saving, Integrated Pest Management, plant anatomy and reproduction, soil science, water conservation and food preparation are empahsized throughout the year.

Lowery Elementary School

The Lowery Elementary School Community provides a safe, caring and positive environment, where all teachers and students are educated to their maximum potential through rigor, relevance, and relationships. 

Lowery Elementary is located in rural Donaldsonville, Louisiana. We serve a high poverty area, mostly students of color, and our students and parents are hard-working individuals and are amazing. My kids overcome so many obstacles everyday even before they walk into my classroom. They deserve the to have a edible education.  

World Food System Summer School

The World Food System Summer School has been running for 3 years and has an international pool of 100 alumni from 40 countries. The mission of the program is to create a global network of young leaders who have the knowledge and skills necessary to create positive change in their food system. We do this by offering a platform for experiential learning in culturally diverse and interdisciplinary settings that take systems approaches to addressing food, agriculture and nutrition challenges.

Green Animals Edible Schoolyard

Green Animals Topiary Gardens is the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. It is among the exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes protected, preserved and presented by the non-profit organization, The Preservation Society of Newport County. Green Animals remains as a rare example of a self-sufficient estate combining formal topiaries, vegetable and fruit gardens, and a Victorian house overlooking Narragansett Bay in Portsmouth, RI. 

Bears Care Garden - Beachwood Elementary School Garden Project

Visit us online at http://bearscaregarden.com

The Bears Care Garden, Beachwood Elementary School Garden Project is made possible by a garden committee comprised of a group of parents, school administrators, teachers and community members who wanted to start and maintain a school garden.

Saint James Catholic School Garden Club

Saint james garden club is a Junior Master gardening Program.  We meet after school and focus on developing conservation gardening methods.  We are working towards devloping a positive influence in our school lunch program.

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