Garden Classrooms

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

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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.

West Melbourne School For Science

At WMSS we offer gardening on the activity wheel.  Students receive gardening and nutrition lessons weekly.  We let 4-6 grade students choose their activity on Mondays and Tuesday's for extra gardening.  In the program, we plant seasonal vegetables and harvest when ready.  We give harvest to staff to make salads, salsa, smoothies and other healthy snacks for students and staff to enjoy.  We plan to extend out to our community in the near future through farmers markets where WMSS student gardeners supply the produce.

Renaissance High School Farm and Garden Program

Renaissance High School (RHS) Farm and Garden Program is a dynamic learning environment where students experiment growing their own vegetables, fruit and flowers in both an outdoor and greenhouse setting. We strive to teach horticulture and agronomic skill sets through an active hands on farm curriculum as well as a rigorous academic classroom component.

Promise of Peace Community Gardens

The Promise of Peace, (P.O.P.), Gardens was established in 2009 as an effort to bring diverse groups of people together on common ground while connecting to nature and learning to grow REAL food and then to celebrate the food as we shared the harvest. The mission of P.O.P. is to create equal access to nutritious food for all children and their families. We transform vacant places into thriving growing spaces where our programming changes lives one seed at a time.

Garden of Hope

The Garden of Hope  is a side project of the School of Hope located in Jocotenango, Guatemala. The School of Hope is run by the Education for the Children Foundation, an international NGO that provides a quality eduacation and variety of wrap-around services for over 500 underprivildged children in the community of Jocotenango (more information http://www.eftc.org.uk/).  Children at the School of Hope come from a variety of compromised and underpriviledged backgrounds.

Oriole Park School TEACHING FARM

Oriole Park School Teaching Farm is an interactive, outdoor classroom - run by teachers, parents, urban farmers, and do-gooders - who strive to inspire and engage young minds with first hand experience in growing food start to finish.

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