Garden Classrooms

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.

Detroit Achievement Academy

We are an elementary school on the northwest side of Detroit that currently serves 105 students between the ages of 5-10. Since opening our doors, we have been the highest performing primary school in the city, with our students’ academic growth in the 99th percentile nationally. As a school we exist to holistically support the education and development of students who have the determination, drive, and skills to shape their own path of high achievement with the ultimate goal of creating civically engaged, joyful citizens who are ready to change the world.

Moberly Middle School Garden

This is Moberly's first foray into gardening. Many of our student (59%) are free/reduced students and received weekend buddy backpacks to take home. This garden will start with 5 4X4 raised beds which will grow cool weather vegetables and herbs to be used in our Family and Consumer Sciences class and at lunch. We have purchased a dehydrator to prolong the life of the herbs. We have an approximate 70 percent white, 10 percent Asian and Hisplanic and 20 percent African population grades 6-8. We have not created a mission statement yet.

Greater Atlanta Christian School Environmental Learning Center

We are a K3-12 private Christian School in the suburbs of Atlanta with ~1900 total students from 90 different zip codes. 

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  We believe hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do two things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food.

Local Urban Gardeners

Our mission is: To create a garden bassed community center that can serve as a place of learning, a place to grow nutritious food, to promote sustainable gardening and inspire community improvement. 

We are working to develop a community garden and learning lab at Natividad Creek Park in Salinas,CA. It has been an ongoing process since 2013. This year looks promising and if all goes well we should be able to break ground in early spring 2016!

SPEC School Gardens Program

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

 

Belle Chasse Academy

The mission of the Belle Chasse Academy Victory Garden is to provide students and their families with life skills, health literacy, and economic insight through the integration of the garden and kitchen classroom experience into our daily school curriculum and the local economy.  This will be accomplished through a hands-on holistic approach that immerses students in gardening, making healthy food choices, improving our environment, and becoming a community with a smaller carbon footprint and larger ecological “hand-print.”

Ashley River Garden Gourmet Club

Our Garden Gourmet Club is made of 4th and 5th grade students that want to learn how to garden and use fresh produce to create healthy snacks and meals!  We have raised beds, a greenhouse, and an indoor grow lab where we grow vegetables like lettuce, carrots, radishes, and much more!  We then take our harvest to our kitchen lab to cut, chop, and create healthy foods!

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