Garden Classrooms

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.

Gorman Heritage Farm

Gorman Heritage Farm is a 122-acre working farm and outdoor education center, which invites its visitors to explore and learn the history, methods and values of a working family farm in a natural setting. We are located on Reading Road in Evendale, Ohio. The Farm is one-half mile south of Glendale-Milford Road.

RVIS School Garden Project

At Riffa Views International School, the school garden is incorporated into the daily school curriculum via a garden coordinator.  Participation in the garden is voluntary and many teachers are eager to have their classes involved.  All the fruits,vegetables, herbs and flowers in the garden came from a seed that a child in the school planted.  Our orchard is supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, who donate their experitise in grafting, air-layering, and practical advice.  The school's compost pit is fueled by the vegetable and fruit waste created in the school's cafeteria and from child

Garden School Foundation

 The Garden School Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to garden-based education. Our pilot program at the 24th Street Elementary School in the West Adams neighborhood of South Los Angeles was founded when the school community decided that kids had enough asphalt - and not enough nature. 7 years later, the 24th Street gardens span over 1 acre and include 55 fruit trees, 20 vegetable beds, habitat gardens, Native CA Woodlands, a reading garden, and multiple teaching spaces.

The Demonstration Farm

 The Demonstraiton Farm is located in Calca, Peru in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The farm is run by the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD), a registered non-profit organization. 

Branches Atelier

Branches Atelier is a Preschool in Culver City, California in which we are committed to creating high-quality, creative, dynamic, educational programs for children, families and educators. We pride ourselves on being a social constructivist program, inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. Based on our fundamental belief that children learn best when their work is meaningful and given in a social context, we integrate all areas of curriculum though short-term explorations as well as long-term projects.

Bija Vidyapeeth, Earth University

Navdanya's educational initiative Bija Vidyapeeth, in partnership with the Schumacher College in UK, offers a unique opportunity to explore and practise the art and science of sustainability based on ecological principles at the peaceful pollution-free setting of Navdanya's organic farm in Doon Valley.

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