Garden Classrooms

National Center for Appropriate Technology / FoodCorps

The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is a national nonprofit with regional offices in six states, including Iowa. Founded in 1976, NCAT’s mission is to help people by championing small-scale, local and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty, promote healthy communities, and protect natural resources. We do this through a wide variety of renewable energy and sustainable agriculture projects, most notably ATTRA, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.

The Giving Field on Liberty Street

 The Giving Field on Liberty Street is a donation garden with a mission of feeding the hungry fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, as well as, provide education on living a healthier and more sustainable life through the garden.  All of the harvested food goes to the area soup kitchens to feed the hungry. 

 

This one acre piece of land is located across the street from St. Anne School that teaches children from pre-k thru eighth grade. The students and parents take an active part in planting, maintaining and harvesting at The Field.

School Garden Resource Center, located at Common Ground High School, Urban Farm and Environmental Education Center

The School Garden Resource Center supports the creation and effective use of educational vegetable gardens in schools. We believe that by using our knowledge and resources to provide services and advice, training garden coordinators in schools and creating a network of educators committed to educational gardens we can help schools build, maintain and sustain thriving school garden programs.

Dishchii'bikoh Community School Edible School Garden

The FoodCorps service member and staff from the nutrtition project team at The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health teach a science-based curriculum weekly to third, fourth, and fifth grade students at Dishchii'bikoh Community School. The community of Cibecue is located on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation--the home of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Students in the Edible School Garden program are taught nutrition in the classroom and hands-on lessons in the school garden.

Durant Tuuri Mott School Garden

 The Durant Tuuri Mott School Garden Project is a collaboration amongst the school community, the Crim Fitness Foundation, Master Gardeners, and a number of other community partners. The garden is made up of 5 large raised beds that grow herbs and vegetables. The garden is used in a number of classrooms to enhance curriculum and the produce is consumed by students during the school year and donated to local church groups during the summer months.

Whole Kids

Our school is a special school to all of those involved. Our motto is "we help others learn everywhere": we raised over $19,000 and a percentage goes to the children in India.

Our school is a moving school, our kids never stop moving. We just had our girls on the run -- a 5k for all grade levels and they had a great time. The boys felt out of touch so they bugged our principal to create a boys' running club. They had a 5k with the OSU engineering honor society.. What an exciting event.

The Children's School

The Children's School is a Toddler - 8th Grade non-profit, independent, progressive school in La Jolla, CA. Our mission is to inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social, and environmental curriculum.

As a progressive school, we believe three core tenets are vital to educating children:
Academic development and social growth must be equally supported.
Students learn best when they take an active role in their education.
Teaching children how to learn is as important as teaching them what to learn.

Food Roots

Food Roots is located in Tillamook, on the beautiful North Oregon coast. Serving rural Tillamook County and the North Oregon Coast, Food Roots' mission is to cultivate a healthy food system in our region through serving as a catalyst and advocate for change. We do this through our programming, by forging fruitful partnerships, and by empowering communities and individuals to be more food self-reliant. Food Roots has provided resources and support for community and school gardens throughout Tillamook County and continues garden development throughout the region.

Our Lady of the Presentation Early Childhood Center

We are a faith based preschool in Lee's Summit, Missouri that serves 225 students ages 1-5.

Mississippi Roadmap to Health Equity, Inc.

Mississippi Roadmap to Health Equity, Inc. is a community based project that is supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the USDA, it has a primary focus on raising awareness leading to community action where health and social disparities exist. The mission of Mississippi Roadmap is to achieve health equity by advocating for changes within the community institutions that influence people’s everyday lives. The goal is to change these institutions so that they support and never inhibit the community’s efforts to be healthy.

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