Garden Classrooms

The Wisdom Garden

 The Wisdom Garden supports elementary, middle and high school, students, as well as after school, pre-school, Saturday and summer camp participants through agriculture based programs. Our 5,000 square foot Wisdom Garden is located at a public school, Spann Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi.It was implemented as a teaching garden to help promote healthy eating, nutrition and agriculture education at this Title I school where 88% of the students receive free and reduced lunch.

Red Hook Playgroup

Red Hook Playgroup (RHP) is a progressive preschool for children ages two-and-a-half to five years old. Each year at RHP we work to develop a community of learners, who are equipped at this early period of development to think creatively and critically, and to respect, support, and learn from all members of their community.

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

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