Garden Classrooms

Munroe Elementary

3440 West Virginia Avenue

Adam Kuperman – adam.kuperman@ucdenver.edu

Munroe’s 2100 square foot garden is located just south of Munroe on the school’s playground. They produce fruits and vegetables for the Garden to Cafeteria program, and also sell to the neighborhood through Youth Farmers’ Markets.

McKinley Thatcher Elementary

Our garden will create meaningful relationships between students and food. It is.important for kids to know where their food comes from who grows it and how to.prepare it. Our garden will engaging students in local food production and economies provide a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from daily experiences develop greater community interaction and instill the joy of cooking and the pleasures of eating nutritious tasty food. 

Garden Leader: Taryn Kapronica – loveitmadly@gmail.com

Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy

Garden Leader: Molly O’Malley - molly_omalley@dpsk12.org

Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is only two years old (KCAA) and is already winning awards. The new DPS school opened last year as a K-8 public school that will become a K-12 school in the next few years. The school was awarded the top new Art School by the Art School Network. This exciting school has a rigorous academic curriculum that addresses the Colorado State Standards but also has as its mission the integration of the arts in all areas.

Jefferson County Open School

Our garden will create meaningful relationships between students and food. It is important for kids to know where their food comes from who grows it and how to prepare it. The Garden will emphasize hands on experiences by engaging students in local food production and economies provide a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from real life experiences develop greater community interaction and instill the joy of cooking and the pleasures of eating nutritious tasty food.

High Point Academy

Garden Leader: Stacey May -- may.stacey@gmail.com

 

High Point Academy (previously The Academy at High Point) is a charter school in the Green Valley Ranch area of Aurora. We serve about 400 students in preschool through 8th grade. Our school has a wellness focus that includes weekly wellness class for all students, staff wellness initiatives, and healthy snack requirements, among other programs.

Patterson High School Garden Program

 Patterson High School already has a small organic school garden of two raised beds.  Currently, a group of school social workers are maintaining the garden, and selling the produce to staff in order to generate further garden funding.

 

I would like to expand the garden and incorporate students and classrooms into it.  There is desire for this among staff.

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