Garden Classrooms

 The educational gardens at both Live Oak and Del Mar Elementary schools, located in the Live Oak area of Santa Cruz, provide K-5 students an outdoor curriculum-based garden experience. Students learn various components of the organic garden experience, including vermicomposting, seed germination, and water cycles. The garden program is based upon the concept of age appropriate hands-on learning. It attempts to provide a holistic approach to healthy food systems and experiential knowledge of the food-based natural world.

SEEDS is a nonprofit organization in Northeast Central Durham with a 2-acre urban garden and kitchen classroom. We aspire to develop the capacity of young people through growing, cooking and sharing food. We promote the principles of responsbility, environmental stewardship, community, equity, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership, sustainability, experiential learning through seeds-to-feast, educational programming for young people who attend primary and secondary schools.

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Hydro Harvest Farms has been building Hydroponic School Gardens for more than 6 years. We work side by side with the teachers and students in building, planting, growing and tending the garden. We are a continual source of information related to the Hydroponic Garden and Integrated Pest Management. Our gardens are so easy to take care of. They are automatic, accessible, take up very little space and use very little water and electricity. We are Approved vendors for Manatee, Hillsborough, Polk, Pasco and Pinellas School Districts.