Garden Classrooms

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.

SPHS Gardens

South Philadelphia High School Gardens, or SPHS Gardens for short, are located in two formerly vacant lots on either side of the school's parking lot. A local South Philly neighborhood organization, the Lower Moyamensing Civic Association (LoMo), teamed up with South Philadelphia HS in 2012 to create a vegetable garden for students and neighbors to share. The raised bed gardens serve as an outdoor classroom for hands-on science, math, ESOL, english, culinary arts, and special education lessons.

Sprouting Change

 Sprouting Change is the sustainable, organic garden project of Robert Bateman High School's Healthy Eating Activist Team. H.E.A.T.'s goal is to increase our students' awareness of the importance of growing local, sustainable crops, agricultural practices, and the social and environmental impact of organic gardening. We want students to be educated about the food they eating, along with becoming part of the process that brings the crops in our garden to the food on our plates.

Peralta Garden and Kitchen

Peralta Elementary School in Oakland, California has extensive vegetable and flower gardens, a native bee garden as well as a schoolwide culinary arts program. 

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Bloomers! Schoolyard

 Bloomers! Schoolyard is a hands-on gardening and healthy eating, 7 - 12 week program designed specifically for early learners. It comes with an entire garden, soil and all, and everything else you need to grow a little crop of vegetables. We do lettuce in the Fall, snow peas in the Spring and tomatoes in the Summer. The teacher has a harvest day and prepares the vegetables in 3 different ways so the kids learn that if they don't like one way, they may like them another way. And they always eat the vegetables!

Annie's Grants for Gardens

 

 Annie's Homegrown: Growing Gardens of Goodness

Project EAT

Project EAT ( Educate, Act, Thrive.) serves 25,000 students directly. Initiated ten years ago at two schools in the Hayward Unified School District, Project EAT now serves 50 schools in five school districts with a yearly budget over $4 million dollars. Currently, the award winning, nationally recognized Project EAT serves Hayward, Livermore, San Leandro, and San Lorenzo school districts with primary funding from the Network for a Healthy California, funded by the California Department of Public Health.

Edible Sac High

The mission of Edible Sac High is to provide students with a transformational experience by giving them the tools they will need to assume ownership for the well-being of themselves and the student body at large. It will provide these tools through an integrated curriculum across three main activities: a school garden, a kitchen classroom, and a student-run cafeteria. A blueprint for this program will be shared with high schools across both the state of California and the nation. 

Henry C. Lea "Secret Garden"

The Henry C. Lea School has had a garden since 1999.  The University of Pennsylvania's Judith Rodin was an early supporter.  UC Green under the leadership of Sue MacQueen and with the support of Joe Shapiro, Johannah Fine, Michael Dillen, has been a source of expertise and guidence.  Dr.

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