Garden Classrooms

Harvest Lots

We are transforming an unattractive vacant lot into a productive garden.  We will host class field trips to show children what we have done, about healthy food and contributing to their community.  We donate the food grown to local crisis centers and food banks.  Our long term goal is to tranform other vacant lots and eventually create an organization to help other communities transform their vacant lots into gardens!

Cubberley Garden Club

 We have a small raised bed garden for 1st through 3rd grade students at Cubberley Elementary School (K-8). We are hopeful to expand and someday have something large enough to host more grades.

Waconia Edible Classroom

The Waconia Edible Classroom is located on farmland adjacent to Clearwater Middle School.  The garden site includes a 1/2 acre vegetable garden, 65 fruit trees, and offers a dozen community plots for rent.  The Edible Classroom is an outdoor learning space that gives students the opportunity to learn the seed-to-table process through hands on learning.

How does our garden grow?
Students start seeds indoors in the spring and transplant to the garden before school is out for the summer.  During summer months Kids Co participants and local volunteers tend to the garden.

Weinstein JCC Kid's Place Garden

 The garden is small right now but we are growing kale, radish, turnip, and mustards. It is part of the Weinstein JCC's afterschool program called Kid's Place for grades K-5. Gardening is one class in the afterschool program and it's just getting off the ground! For 30 minutes each week, every grade has their gardening class. So far they've devoured kale chips (and raw kale!), used veggies and fruits as stamps, sampled radish sprouts (reactions from 'that tastes like baby food' to 'when can we have more?' were shouted), and worked in the garden doing various chores.

Food for Life Program at Holden Christian Academy

Holden Christian Academy
Food for Life

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and finish his work.” John 4:34

STAR Academy Garden

The STAR Academy Garden will benefit our school children by providing a hands-on experience for our students to go along with their science, social studies, math and health/nutrition studies. Our garden has already begun to positively impact our school community by bringing parents, teachers and students together. Parents who have never been involved in our school before are excited that they have found a way to contribute to our school community.

Garden Story

GARDEN STORY @ Storycorp is a project recording Middle School Students' fav Garden Story, whether family, community or Edible Schoolyard.  A digital scrapbook.  Everyone has a favorite memory of digging in the garden.

Why Middle School? Because kids change so much in High School.  Middle School is a magical time to harvest and preserve. Sunshine in a bottle.

Cheers, Hunter Green

Farm to School at Davis Stuart

We are a residential juvenile facility with the desire to teach nutritious food choices, healthy/gourmet food preparation and hands-on planting/picking and preserving of our school greenhouse and garden.  We also teach and practice entrepreneurship lessons, including growing, preparing and selling our own hot pepper jelly, salsa and pine wreaths.  This is our first year to have a class entitled Farm to School and we are learning and working hard to create a viable program that will be helpful and useful to students in their future endeavors. 

San Domenico School Garden of Hope

 The Garden of Hope is a sacred place and learning center for San Domenico students and faculty, but has expanded to become a model for the greater community. Our sustainability program has been featured in articles in the Marin Independent Journal, Marin Magazine, Terra Magazine, Red Orbit, More Marin, and other magazines such as Fast Forward. It is known as a place to showcase how other school gardens, community organizations, and individuals can learn how to live more sustainably with the earth.

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