Garden Classrooms

Brattleboro Food Co-op's Education & Outreach

Our program goals:

to introduce a variety of healthy, natural and locally grown foods to school children to broaden their food experience.

to increase students understanding about where food comes from.

to provide students with nutrition information enabling them to make healthy food choices.

Montessori Children's Place Garden

One of the central themes of the Montessori philosophy is the connection with the natural world of the outdoors. The children have the daily opportunity to experience the outdoors with structure and purpose. They learn how to use their hands in everyday endeavors focused on the earth.

Sparrow Organic Community Garden

Teaching our children the benefits of growing your own food and how to use in everyday food

New Era Academy

We call ourselves The Edible Era Scholars We are an afterschool program that meets twice a week for our Chef and Garden club. Each week we are cooking or tending to our 10 raised beds at New Era Academy in Cherry Hill, Maryland. We only create vegetarian foods and use fresh herbs and vegetables from our garden. We also make Herbal soaps using the herbs we grow in our garden. We have extended our club to residences of the community of all ages

Mama Nature

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who come alive."

I am keeper of my children's elementary school garden!

Grassroots Garden

Organic children's garden, experiential learning, equipping youth to create food sovereign communities, helping youth know enough and care enough to save the planet.

Northeast Elementary Garden Project

 Educational institutions can encourage the overall health and well-being of staff, families and community members, as well as the health of students. By creating schools that promote health and environmental education programs, a larger population of youth will be exposed to the fundamentals of healthy living. Across the nation, school gardens are being implemented as an effective means of enhancing schools’ nutrition programs and as a way to educate the students about agriculture and food systems (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2011).

Three Trails Elementary

Through a partnership with the Independence Health Department and the Building a Healthier Independence grant initative, Three Trails Elementary has implemented the Eating for the Garden curriculum. This garden is made up of 4 raised beds that are maintained by about 15 children. The produce from this garden feeds approximately 28 children and their parents.

Bryant Elementary

Through a partnership with the Independence Health Department and the Building a Healthier Independence grant initative,Bryant Elementary has implemented the Eating for the Garden curriculum. This garden is made up of 4 raised beds that are maintained by about 20 children. The produce from this garden feeds approximately 50 children and their parents.

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