Garden Classrooms

Julien School Garden Project

The goal of the Julien Garden Project is to provide a nurturing space where teachers and children can engage in plant-based learning across the curriculum for active discovery and inquiry in an outdoor natural setting.

Ossining Children's Center

So much more than day care -- music, arts, gardening, cooking, nature, creative play & more–in a loving environment. Child care, education & enrichment for children 8 weeks–12 years. Open Mon-Fri, 7am – 6pm year-round. Scholarships available. Non Profit 

Academe of the Oaks Learning Garden

Academe of the Oaks has had a large organic vegetable garden since its inception in 2003 and every year the school improves the gardens and informal outdoor spaces to enhance its conservation and garden-based learning programs as well as provide students with beautiful spaces that catalyze social interaction and collaborative learning.  

Laura Beach Giving Garden

The Laura Beach Giving Garden is located at Espiritu Santo Catholic School. There are currently 9 raised beds (one for each grade) growing vegetables and herbs including; carrots, pole beans, beets, radishes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, squash, cilantro, dill, and egg plant. The garden also has a butterfly habitat in order to attract pollinators. This garden not only serves as an outdoor classroom but teaches the spirit of giving.

Boroughs Family Branch YMCA Schools Out afterschool program and childcare center

Our goals for the 2016 spring and summer season is to revitalize and clean our greenhouse and have programs geared towards our preschool, after school program, and summer camp.

Captain Cooper Children's Garden

The Captain Cooper Children's garden is a beautiful garden with a view of the Big Sur valley and a peak of the Pacific Ocean. We grow a variety of plants in our garden including asparagus, lettuce, cabbage, basil, rosemary, corn, mint, squash, beans, lemons, oranges, persimmons, apples, blackberries and much much more. Students learn to propagate plants in our greenhouse. They learn to compost and ensure plants are receiving the nutrients they need. 

Riverside Elementary School FCPS

An outdoor science classroom where elementary school children learn to grow nutritional food and to recycle from their cafeteria.  The edible garden will be incorporated into the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics curriculum.

Hollywood Garden

The Hollywood Garden, our school garden at Hollywood Elementary School in Stevensville, Michigan, serves as a laboratory for plant study and as a place to learn about fresh food.  Hollywood's students are involved with maintenance of the garden, and do exploratory classes under the direction of adult volunteers.  The Hollywood Garden is the only school garden in our corner of southwestern Michigan that is part of the Edible Scho

Manorhaven Elementary School

The goal of this garden is to revive an internal outdoor courtyard and create a schoolyard garden for the first time at this elementary school. The garden would grow a range of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and non-edible plants, and will become an outdoor classroom serving a K-5 audience.

Viewpoint School Garden

The Viewpoint School garden provides the opportunity for students, K through 12, to grow, cook and eat their own food.  Our lower and primary school students visit and work in the garden in their science classes.  Our middle and upper school students participate in the garden as clubs in their respective divisions.  We are continually expanding our program and hoping to add an elective focused on gardening in the near future.  We hope that students become more connected to their food, the seasons, and the outdoors.

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