Garden Classrooms

City Beets

City Beets is part of the Five Rivers MetroParks community gardening program. The program is 8 weeks long and open to teens ages 12-15. Teens learn about food systems, how to grow fresh foods, and how to prepare the foods they grow. The teens also sell the produce at our local farmers market. Please check us out on the Five Rivers MetroParks website. Happy Gardening!

D11 Good Food Project

The D11 Good Food Project brings healthy, fresh, sustainable food to 24,000 students daily across 65 serving locations through the Colorado Springs School District 11 Food & Nutrition Services department.  Last year, $750,000 was put back into the local community through purchases of grass-finished beef, milk, fresh produce, and yes, coffee for our catering department.

The Galileo Garden Project produced 1,000 lbs. of fresh produce for the D11 Good Food Project in the five beds outdoors plus garden beds in our 42' geodesic dome greenhouse between January and September 2012.

Voorhies Edible School Garden

My name is Nadia Guajardo and I am a 6th grade teacher with Bakersfield City School District. I am writing to you on behalf of Voorhies Elementary, in hopes of rallying support for our new community project of creating an edible garden at our school site. The edible garden will be designed to educate our students about the important practices of horticulture and sustainability through hands-on experience, integrated science-based curriculum, and a collective awareness of the importance of eco-responsibility.

Tucson Village Farm

Tucson Village Farm (TVF) is a working urban farm by and for the youth of Tucson. TVF is a seed-to-table program designed to reconnect young people to a healthy food system, teach them how to grow and prepare fresh food and empower them to make healthy life choices. We do this through a variety of dynamic, hands-on programs targeting all age groups:
Growing Forward: K-5 agriculture and nutrition education field trip
Digging Deeper: Grades 6-12 agriculture, nutrition education and food preparation
Farm Camp: Farm immersion for youth ages 7-11

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Henderson College

The aim of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is to introduce pleasurable food education into as many Australian primary schools as possible.  
Our Program emphasises the flavours as well as the health benefits of fresh, seasonal food.
Dishes cooked reflect the vegetables, herbs and fruits grown, season-by-season, by the children in their organic gardens.
Our Kitchen Specialist instructors emphasise balance and moderation, and endorse the concept of preparing fruit-based desserts ‘sometimes' only.

Salt Marsh Soldiers

The Salt Marsh Soldiers are an environmental group who have raised beds filled with organic dirt and organic veggies.  Our produce is eaten by students and donated to Second Harvest. We work in partnership with many local experts such as Betty Ann Lewis with Sapelo Farms, James Holland our former Altamaha Riverkeeper, and Jeannie Lewis of Department of Natural Resources to name a few.

Healthytactics

 LLC designed to teach healthy eating using seasonal, sustainable food.

 

Little Owl Preschool

 We are a small Reggio-inspired preschool, recently opened in 2010, serving children ages 2 1/2 to 6 years of age.  When we were planning the things we felt were important for Little Owl to focus on, the nature of food was right up at the top of our list. To give our children a “language of food” meant to share a way for children to see how food comes to our table.  To show how wonderfully delicious healthy, fresh food can be and to enable children to make good nutritional choices in their eating habits was an essential goal.

Youth Villages AmeriCorps Community Garden

The Youth Villages AmeriCorps community garden began in 2007, as an AmeriCorps service learning project designed to create a garden space for learning and meditation at the Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus in Douglasville, GA. The first planting occurred in the spring of 2008, and every spring, summer and fall, AmeriCorps members, students, staff and teachers plant and harvest organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers.

Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Cub

The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL.  Our mission is to teach and encourage children to make healthy eating a part of their daily lives and to combat childhood obesity within the community; by encouraging families to cook from scratch and decrease food related health issues.  The Bella Cuisine Kids Cooking Club consists of local chefs who volunteer their time to teach hands-on cooking classes to children and their guardians.  We are proud to be a part of the Lets Move! network of programs to keep kids healthy.  .

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