Garden Classrooms

Catskill Edible Garden Project

The Catskill Edible Garden Project, (growing the next generation of food entrepreneurs), works with area schools to create vegetable gardens that will increase access to healthy local food. The program is complemented with educational initiatives related to food resources, awareness of nutrition and agricultural or food related career options.

The Catskill Edible Garden Project offers the opportunity for a hands on youth development experience and exposure to food and agriculture as important aspects of our community, culture and potential career opportunities.

King School Courtyard Garden

 The King School Courtyard garden teaches health, nutrition and science to a diverse school population in inner Northeast Portland.  Begun this year, it is part of the school's International Baccalaureate program.

Williams Elementary School, San Jose, California

 I'm the Garden Coordinator for Williams Elementary School, a public elementary school in the Almaden area of San Jose.  Though we are not a low income school, we are a high achieving school, which keeps the teachers and students pressured with lots of papers.  I try to get classrooms and children out into the garden in order to learn with their whole bodies.  It's very rewarding, lots of work, and tons of fun.

 

Rolling Hills Prep Organics

Rolling Hills Preparatory Schools mission is to create and maintain an organic garden through all stages, from planning, developing, planting, harvesting and composting. We work with students in all grades, some of whom have never gardened before. We have 28 raised beds in which each student is required to design, plant, and maintain his or her own garden for the trimester. We also assign community service to students that are interested in giving back to the community.

Florida for Growing Gardens

I can gather police department officials being that my father is a Lieutenant of the Metro-Dade police department. I can also hold a town meeting being that the officials reside on my street. I can get in contact with the presdient of FIU being that I am still a student. I can gather a handful of principals from public and private schools and I can also gather Judicial officials from the state if needed to truly have an impacting message to the community.

The Cooking Gene: Southern Discomfort Tour (Youth Cooking/Planting Demonstration)

Youth & Summer Camp Groups are invited to meet Food Historian Michael Twitty as he tells the story of our living history through food. Mr. Twitty traces the backgrounds of heirloom seeds and present artifacts from plantations across the nation and the African diaspora. Student activities include planting the heirloom seeds and making their own ice cream! Lunch tickets can be purchased for $5 (a la carte items available). The event will be held at Atwood Community Gardens located at 779, Atwood Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30310 (West End Atlanta, GA.)

NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program

NEXT Steps introduces youth to career pathways in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) by teaching them how to apply the transferable farm and market management skills used at Atwood Community Gardens & Urban Farm -- a 3.5 acre training center and outdoor event facility – which include strategic planning and business development strategies, special event management, investigative research and discovery activities, community service and environmental stewardship.

The Food School

www.foodschoolfarm.com

 

We are a full day, full credit, grade 11 sustainable agriculture program - growing one acre + vegetable garden, intensively with a greenhouse for seedlings and cold crops in the winter, bee hives, hens.

 

The beauty of our program is that it is linked to the culinary program in the same school. All of our food is essentially grown FOR that school kitchen. . .www.foodschool.ca

 

Alice Waters 'lives' in Fergus Ontario Canada

Abernethy Elementary School Kitchen Garden Program

Abernethy Elementary’s School Kitchen Garden program provides kids with comprehensive food-based education, garden space, a working kitchen with a chef and fresh produce eaten at meals. Our goal: improve student learning and instill lifelong habits of health.

Seeds of Change

We have recently started a 14 bed organic produce garden at our school. Community members will garden in the summer and our third, fourth and fifth graders will take over in September. Our goal is to have a working produce garden within a year, providing fresh produce to our school cafeteria and giving kids healthy alternatives to the typical school lunch.

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