Garden Classrooms

Benjamin Franklin Elementary

Garden Leader: Allie Molinda – blainenewby@yahoo.com

Ben Franklin Elementary has a medium to large size garden composed of about 14 4×12′ raised beds, and 2 2×20′ flat beds. A small but adequate shed houses our garden tools. We produce mainly vegetables and herbs. The garden is surrounded by xeric plantings. We have a compost system and the garden is irrigated by an automated drip system. We use the garden for gardening, cooking, social studies and art classes.

Fairmont Elementary

Garden Leader: Stephanie Walker – stephlpwalker@gmail.com

In 2006, 400 students participated in a planting day at the beginning of the season. Seven youth cared for the garden and ran a farmer’s market through the summer. Approximately 50 students through the Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Third Grade classes helped provide on-going care for the garden through the end of the school year. An average of 30 families per week purchased vegetables during the 10-week market season.

The Learning Garden

Randall's island Learning Garden, created as a result of the combined efforts of the Randall's Island Park Alliance and GrowNYC is a 15,000 square foot urban farm that aims to provide schools and groups who lack on-site or proximal open space with the experience of environmental education and nutritional learning by growing, harvesting, cooking and eating garden-fresh produce.

 

Common Threads

About
We teach underserved children to cook wholesome & affordable meals because we believe that through our cooking classes we can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences.

We teach our classes our of school kitchens and out of our Common Threads World Garden.  Our garden is located in the Hyde Park area of Chicago and we have been growing and cooking in our garden since 2007.

Homestead Family YMCA Preschool

We are a preschool provider in Miami serving children from 1-5 years old. We currently began our small garden and would like to grow some of the food we eat in school. We are very interested in this project.

Aspen Honeybee Guild

 About
We welcome anyone with an interest in honey bees, whether you are a beekeeper or not!

Mission
The Aspen Honeybee Guild works to encourage and promote organic bee guardianship through fellowship, education, and to raise awareness of the importance of bees to our environment.

Meetings

We currently meet every Tuesday @ 6pm in the atrium in the Ute City Bank Building, Apsen, CO.

Grow Some Good

Grow Some Good is a nonprofit community program dedicated to creating hands-on, outdoor learning experiences that cultivate curiosity about natural life cycles, connect students to their food sources, and inspire better nutrition choices.

In addition to helping establish food gardens and living science labs in local schools, we provide resources and curriculum support through community partnerships in agriculture, science, food education and nutrition.

Waialua Culinary A.L.O.H.A. (A Lifetime of Healthy Activities)

Culinary Art class at Waialua High & Intermediate located on the North Shore of Oahu.  Our focus has been on learning how to cook healthy nutrious food.  We grow leafy green and some of the herbs in  an aquaponic bed and we use these in our culinary class.  We have worms recycling some of our cafeteria waste and are trying to be mor "field to fork".

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