Garden Classrooms

Green Thumbs Growing Kids

Green Thumbs Growing Kids serves 3,000 children, youth and families every year in hands-on experiential programs in four school food gardens, and also greenhouse, summertime and after-school programs. We have a youth empowerment program and hire students for the summer, resulting in deeper community engagement in the school gardens, which function as a food security measure in the low-income communities where our programs are located.

Indigo Fields Forever

 

The purpose of this gardening project is to give Teens and Young Adults a place where they can learn about how to grow their own food & flowers, and create products from the land and from their imaginations. The idea is to have this be a self-contained program, where not only is the program itself supported, but a portion of the proceeds will go directly to the participants. Ideally, they will use it to pursue their passions and create an abundant life for themselves.

The Food Education Enrichment and Development (F.E.E.D.) Organization

The Food Education Enrichment and Development (F.E.E.D.) Organization is focused on enhancing
the lives of young women between the ages of 18-21 who have aged out of the foster system and
have limited life and employable skills. Through the F.E.E.D. Organization's "Let's Eat" program,
participants will learn how to grow and prepare foods they have farmed themselves (this includes
canning). These young women will also be given the opportunity to become Safe Staff certified

Farm-Based Education Network

The Farm-Based Education Network is an international nonprofit community established to support and strengthen the work of farm-based educators and administrators who contribute to the vitality of working agricultural landscapes and local food systems, human and community health, and education of current and future generations.

Branciforte Middle School Life Lab

We are a community of learners who get outside to grow fantastic crops and flowers in the warm climate of the  Banana Belt area of Santa Cruz, California.   Our Middle School garden is in its second year of production.   We involve our 6th grade core classes, our art, cooking and science classes in hands on learning weekly.

Ambohidray School Garden

 I am a Peace Corps volunteer teaching agricultural education to the students at my local elementary school. 

Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes

The Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes is a Pre-K-Grade 5 public magnet school focused on sustainability.  Each of the 11 classrooms have at least one garden bed that grows food and flowers connected to the classroom curriculum.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is an education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.  We offer daily field trips for school children (pre-K - 6th grade), throughout the academic year, as well as summer camps for youth ages 4-17, summer "Stewards-in-Training" opportunities for teens, and college and post-college internships and apprenticeships, based either in our education department or at our 7-acre Market Garden. 

Edible Garden Patches ~Growing Green Program

The program inspires and educates our community at all levels to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and conserve wildlife habitat.

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