Garden Classrooms

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.  .

KIPP Infinity Elementary Garden Project

The second graders at KIPP Infinity Elementary are working hard to grow vegetables and mantain a healty garden throughout the school year. They are excited to learn about growing, harvesting and caring for our garden!

UDS Patriot Pride

To create an Edible Schoolyard at United Day School.

Organic Wishes

 I would like to start a revolution of organic whole food.  Not dead stay on the shelf for 20 years processed food.  

Where kids can enjoy learning what food really is.  Please help save our kids and join the revolution!

Students' Organization for Sustainability

 Student's Organization for Sustainability is a student run club at Las Positas College in Livermore, CA.

Our goal is to promote awareness of our environmental impact through education, activities and events. We plan to organize tree plantings, coordinate volunteer activities and work together with professors, other students and clubs on campus as well as with local organizations to help foster knowledge of ways to share information and live more sustainable lifestyles.

St. Nicholas School Garden

The St. Nicholas School Garden is a place for patience, responsibility, service and learning.  We are currently growing a vegetable garden, and herb garden and we are beginning a flower garden soon.  The vegetable garden will supply the salad bar for the school cafeteria.  Our garden is integrated into science and math curriculum, as well as Language Arts, making hands-on curriculum connection for kids.

St. Nicholas believes in teaching the whole child and instilling a lifelong love of learning!

 

 

Human Health and the Organic Garden

As society advances, people have become increasingly detached from their food sources. The way modern humans live and eat is incredibly different than the way ancestral populations have dealt with food. This has led to an increased prevalence of human health diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. This program strives to explore material from the Integrative Biology department at UC Berkeley to better understand the benefits plant based nutrition and medicine have on human health.

Grimmway Schools Edible Schoolyards

Our mission at Grimmway Academy Edible Schoolyard is to create and sustain an organic garden and learning kitchen that is integrated into the school’s curriculum and culture. We also want to encourage children to discover and develop a healthy relationship with the food they eat. Modeled after the pioneering work of Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley and the Buena Vista Edible Schoolyard in Bakersfield, we have wholly integrated an organic garden and kitchen classroom into the culture and campus of Grimmway Academy, a charter school in the rural town of Arvin, CA.

The Garden Project: Cafe

At bellcate School we believe that all students are valuable and possess the ability to contribute something meaningful to the world. We believe that in order to harvest these gifts it is essential to identify and address basic human and unique individual needs (physiological, safety and security, belonging, love, acceptance, esteem, approval and recognition). Our mission and core values support the bellcate School philosophy.

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