Garden Classrooms

Chicago Community Garden Project

CHICAGO COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT

The Roseland Community Development Corporation and Healthcare Consortium of Illinois is collaborating and partnering with Non Profit Organizations, Urban Farms & Gardens, Educational Institutions, Chicago Park District, and the City of Chicago to implement and develop the Chicago Community Garden Project.

EARTH (Education And Resiliency Through Horticulture) Program

 The EARTH Program at Gifft Hill School(GHS) is a service learning horticulture program developed and implemented by the Department of Horticulture at Iowa State University.  The goal of the program is to design, instll and manage attractive landscapes for sustainable food prodution.  We integrate gardening education into the middle school curriculum and offer a high school elective.  Eventually, we will provide healthy, localy grown food for the lunch room and culinary labs.  The expanding school garden serves as a model of sustainable living to the students, the school and the wider St.

ICS Community Garden

 The International Community School (ICS) is a K-5 public charter school in Dekalb County, GA. Located at the former Medlock Elementary, ICS is committed to rebuild and plant an edible garden through the support of our students, staff, and communtity.

Truck Farm Omaha

While traveling across the country for their documentary film about urban agriculture, Growing Cities, Dan and Andrew came across Truck Farms from Portland, OR to Washington, D.C. From the first sight, they knew they wanted to start a Truck Farm in their hometown of Omaha, NE.

Truck Farm started in Brooklyn, N.Y. as an educational project and film by Director Ian Cheney of Wicked Delicate. The project has since spread to more than 25 other cities with great success. Visit their website: http://www.truckfarm.org/

Vermont Food Education Every Day (Vermont FEED)

Vermont FEED works with schools and communities to raise awareness about good nutrition, healthy food, and the role of Vermont farms and farmers.

We act as a catalyst for rebuilding healthy food systems and to cultivate links between classrooms, cafeterias, communities, and local farms.

Somerset's Garden

Somerset Academy Elementary is located in Pembroke Pines, Florida.  Our edible garden will be cultivated by students and teachers and maintained by the families in our school community. 

Stephanie Alexander's Marsden State School Kitchen Garden Program

Marsden State School is located in south-east Queensland. Our climate is sub-tropical. We have just over 1000 students. We've been a part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program since April 2012. Our school philosophy is to have a whole school approach to maintaining and growing; sustainable, organic, biodiverse edible foods and preparing and cooking them.

Southern Boone Learning Garden

The Southern Boone Learning Garden is located in Ashland, Missouri, and is affiliated with the Southern Boone County R-1 School District and community.  Ashland is in the center of the state, halfway between Columbia & our capital, Jefferson City.  The mission of the Southern Boone Learning Garden is to provide outdoor classroom space and resources; to facilitate fun, authentic learning experiences that challenge students to embrace positive life skills; and to promote collaborative efforts between the Learning Garden, the school district, and the community.

Growing Healthy Habits

Growing Healthy Habits is a gardening and nutrition education curriculum for elementary school classrooms that was developed by the University of Maryland Extension Food Supplement Nutrition Education program (FSNE).  The curriculum was designed to help students increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables while creatively meeting Maryland State curriculum objectives through gardening, nutrition education, and tasting activities.  The Growing Healthy Habits curriculum was launched in Maryland 2010 and since then, more than 100 teachers have received hands-on training in curriculum us

St. Michael's Country Day School Garden Association

 St. Michael's Country Day School Wellness Committee helped to start a school garden during the spring semester, 2012.

 

While the garden is new, the students are excited about the four raised beds, pollinating and butterfly garden, as well as the fruit grove with high bush blueberry, espalier apple and pear trees, pink lemonade blueberry and strawberries.

 

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