Garden Classrooms

University of Montana Dining Services Garden

 The UDS Garden and associated closed-loop campus food system serve as a living learning laboratory where students, faculty, staff, and guests can learn about food production through various gardening methods, passive solar greenhouse design and management, innovative waste reduction, composting, and water catchment. The garden provides an alternative learning environment where people connect with each other, the land, and agriculture, through the shared work of growing food for the campus community.

MU Children's Learning Garden

 The MU Children's Learning Garden is a collaboration between the MU Child Development Lab and the USDA-Agricultural Research Services People's Garden Project. With the help of University of Missouri community organizers and faculture, the garden provides learning experiences for Children ages 18 months to 5 years old. During the growing season, children participate in all aspects of planning, growing, and preparing foods. The garden is meant to reconnect children with food and nature and facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration on the Land Grant University.

Healthy Youth Program at the Linus Pauling Institute

The mission of the Healthy Youth Program is to empower youth and their families to achieve wellness and optimum health through hands-on education.  The Healthy Youth Program provides educational programs highlighting the importance of healthful eating and physical activity, and the role of dietary supplements.  Our educational materials are built upon the Linus Pauling Institute's latest scientific research on vitamins, minerals and other compounds found in the diet to help people live a full and productive life, free of disease.

CCA Academy Aquaponics

 CCA Academy is a small, private, non-denominational high school located in Chicago’s North Lawndale Community.

CTC School Garden

 CTC School Garden has been developed to expand Environmental Education within our school. We serve students with special needs from pre-k to 21 on 2 campuses. Through fundraising, grants, community support and a partnership with "My Local Garden" we have been able to develop a school garden. We are now in the process of supporting our staff in the development and implementation of Environmental Education through our garden. We are also working on the development of educational and sensory environments that enhance the learning environment for our students.

Grant School Garden & Nutrition Education Program

The Grant School Garden is a hands-on, nutrition based program designed to teach students the fundamentals of nutrition through gardening and cooking.  Our program has been very successful in introducing new foods to students and demonstrating fun ways to prepare seasonal foods.  We are looking to integrate this program into the school curriculum and expand upon the many possibilities.  Getting parents and staff fully on board is our goal, as the teachers and the students love the program and are very much on board.  We are always looking for support and creative ideas.  Let us know what yo

East Fort Worth Montessori Academy

 East Fort Worth Montessori Academy's Outdoor Learning Environment is a rich combination of learning gardens and produce gardens. Our children are immersed in a variety of plants and animals to enrich their learning experience. The Outdoor Environment contains a walking meditative labyrinth, a butterfly garden, a rose garden, a pond, as well as goats, chickens and rabbits. The production gardens are in progress with a number of projects making headway with the ebbs and flows of nature.

Zapt, Zab! O projeto do Patio Escolar Comestivel

The Zapt, Zab! project was inspired by the Edible Schoolyard program, thinking about creating and connecting a beautiful school garden to the kitchen. Involving and teaching the kids about ecological principles in the easiest form there is: through a garden! We believe that, by this way, kids living in urban areas get the chance to reconnect to natural cycles and be awaken to respect, care, love and perceive the importance of every little thing that exist.

Marina Orth Foundation School Garden Project

The Marina Orth Foundation Created a project on 2013 to fit with their existing Step by Step Project which focuses on English, Technology and Leadership.

One of the original purposes of the Step By Step Project was to promote the development of skills in our students to give them the necessary characteristics to compete in today’s society. With this in mind, the School Gardens project will fit with our existing educational objectives and will also promote understanding of how to care for the environment and use it in a sustainable manner.

100 Seeds of Change

The Social Justice Learning Institute has developed the "100 Seeds of Change" Food System Initiative - a comprehensive, city-wide plan to create 100 urban gardens at homes, local schools, city parks and other locations with city youth & community members. The goal of this initiative is to transform Inglewood into a healthy living community by empowering residents to collaboratively be active in growing their own food in a local network.

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