Garden Classrooms

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.

 

Ecotrust Farm to School

Ecotrust works with schools, childcare centers, hospitals, and colleges to increase procurement of local foods. One of the key tools we use to find farmers is FoodHub (www.food-hub.org), Ecotrust’s online directory and marketplace for buyers and sellers of regional food.

Mountain Garden Initiative

 Mountain Garden Initiative provides a space for kids to learn about science, nature, and gardening in a hands-on, outdoor environment. We believe kids can learn valuable lessons about plant growth and gardening both inside and outside the classroom. We hope that school gardens will foster a love for homegrown produce, healthy soil, and the great outdoors through hands-on gardening experience from an early age. The first garden was founded at Cumberland Elementary School in Harlan County, KY, by Rachel Manning and Hilary Neff during the summer of 2012.

Beach School Edible Schoolyard

Our school garden is used by some teachers in classrooms.  We also have an after school 4-H garden club.

CAISL Edible Schoolyard

The mission of CAISL´s Edible School yard is to bring community members together to engage in the multitude of academic, social, physical and emotional benefits a garden provides to both the earth and its citizens. Lessons in science, geography, math, reading, writing, cooking, art, nutrition and the value of eating locally grown seasonal food, free of pesticides will result in an authentic experience for all that promotes eco- literacy and environmental stewardship.

A Living Library

Life Frames, Inc., the non-profit sponsor of A Living Library, works with diverse schools and communities, creating place-based, ecological transformation and greening of school-yards and neighborhoods.

Akasa

 

M I S S I O N 

Hi, We’re AKASA. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides a diversified Wellness Curriculum to low-income communities in Los Angeles utilizing the tools of mindfulness, cooking and gardening to reconnect students and families with their bodies. 

V I S I O N 

Arise Garden

Our garden has just started and is slowly growing into something our school can really be proud of.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

Weeden Heights Primary School is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. We have been delivering the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for over five years. Children from Year 3 through to Year 6 regularly participate in both Kitchen and Garden Classes with students from the lower year levels also participating on the rotating basis. Two specialist teachers deliver the program, Ange in Kitchen and Mandy (Me) in Garden.

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