Garden Classrooms

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".

Building School Gardens

Started during the 2006–07 school year, Building School Gardens installs gardens at Chicago public schools to achieve the following purposes:

• Develop "garden teams" to support the garden,
• Integrate the gardens into multi-disciplinary curriculum at multiple grade levels,
• Use art creatively in the landscape,
• Instill an environmental ethic in those who the gardens effect, and
• Incorporate physical activity as a regular daily activity

Friends of St. Francis Childcare Center

Friends of St. Francis is a 35 year old multicultural preschool serving children ages two to five from families of all economic backgrounds.

Cory Elementary

Garden Leaders:

Jana Roush - janaroush@msn.com
Linda Scara – Lscara@comcast.net

Cory’s garden is located on the Southwest side of our building, off of Steele St. Our in-garden program is primarily for grades 1, 2, and 3 at the present time. Grades 4-5 are involved in the Youth Farmers’ Market.

Garden by Knight

I am the Career Technical Education culinary instructor for an inner city high school. We lost our horticulture program and since I have a background in horticulture the school has giving me the green houses and part of the campus to use for my program. We are establishing a student-run café where I'd like to serve the produce we grow. In addition, due to the fact that we are in a low socioeconomic area of the city and have a large Hispanic and Asian student body, I also wanted to start a community garden on campus to get parents involved in their child's school.

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