Garden Classrooms

Petaluma Health Center Garden

 We are a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides primary medical care, mental health services, dental care, health education, and community fitness classes to residents of Petaluma, Rhonert Park, Cotati, Penngrove and the surrounding areas. We are organized as a private, non profit corporation and governed by a consumer and community led Board of Directors.

FoodCorps Connecticut

FoodCorps is a nationwide team of leaders that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy.

Mission
Through the hands and minds of emerging leaders, FoodCorps strives to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food.

Fayetteville Public Schools

 Fayetteville Public Schools has 9 existing schoolyard gardens throughout the district. We have been working on garden programming and education for several years, but have taken a more direct approach over the past three years. In 2011 the district also created a sustainability coordinator position to assist schools with a variety of environmental initiatives including schoolyard gardens.

The Amazing Places Project

The Amazing Places Project

We operate in partnership with Community Space Challenge, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Community Space Challenge is about young people taking on run down and forgotten spaces and changing them into fresh green places for everyone to use and enjoy. It covers 70 areas of the country and focuses on involving young people growing up in tough situations: they learn about the environment, growing fresh food, creating sensory and wildlife community gardens, and linking them into their communities.

Waikiki Food Farm

 The Waikiki School Food Farm is about growing foods by kids for kids with a mission to encourage young children to love and protect their ‘aina, discover where food comes from, and learn to take pride in growing their own food. The farm also serves as a valuable outdoor classroom resource for teachers and educators to use in addressing benchmark standards in all subjects. The farm was initiated and has continued to be supported by community volunteers, generous contributions from local businesses and the school’s staff and families.

Gayhurst Community Primary School

 At Gayhurst we currently have a garden and pond area, which is being used to grow vegatables with a range of children from different age groups across the school.

We have had some great sucesses over the pass ten years, in the development of the garden as well as highlighting the impact and benifit there is to gardening as well as learning outside in general.

 

Withrow Avenue "Spiderweb" Food Garden

The Withrow school "Spiderweb" food garden involves students from all grades - kindergarten to grade 6 - in its activities. In the spring and fall, Withrow has a School Garden Educator.  In the garden, younger students discover the garden using their five senses, planting seedlings, and going on scavenger hunts. Older students discover compost critters, pollinators, soil, invasive species, biodiversity, plant life cycles, seed saving, and get to put their math skills to use to find the perimeter and area of garden plots.

Edible Ajo Schoolyard (EASY)

Ajo Edible School Yard Program The Ajo Unified School District (AUSD) School Garden Program began in the spring of 2008 driven by the then-public health nurse Fran Driver, also an AUSD parent. The program soon partnered with Desert Senita Community Health Center (DSCHC) and grew to serve 2 Elementary Science and Math classes and 3 High School Culinary Arts Classes. In spring 2013, the AUSD and DSCHC, received a small grant that allowed DSCHC Garden Promotora, Melanie Daniel and AUSD Principle, Brian MacKenzie to attend the Edible School Yard Project training at Berkley California.

Robeson's Outback Nature Center

The Robeson Outback Nature Center includes a butterfly house, bluebird trail, nature trail, outdoor classroom, and school garden.  All of these outdoor resources are used to deliver our curriculum in a variety of fun and exciting experiences.  Not only does it instill a love of nature and the outdoors in our students, but in enables us to integrate reading, writing, and the arts with science.

Children & youths' gardening association/ Kumpula school garden/ Green Branch Youth Program

The Helsinki School Garden celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.  The original motivation for school gardening activities in the city  was the concern for the welfare of the working class families.

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