Garden Classrooms

The Edible Gardens by Green City Market

Chicago’s Green City Market is home to The Edible Gardens, a 5,000 square-foot urban agriculture project growing in the heart of Lincoln Park Zoo’s Farm-in-the-Zoo. As Green City Market’s primary educational outreach program, The Edible Gardens’ mission is to connect Chicago youth with their food hands-on, and to ensure that families have the knowledge, experience, and inspiration to help support a sustainable food system.

Growing Chefs! Chefs for Children's Urban Agriculture

Growing Chefs! Chefs for Children's Urban Agriculture is a non-profit society that brings local chefs and growers into elementary schools to teach kids about food, cooking, and gardening. Our mission is to inspire children with the idea that they can grow their own food, even in the city.

We also seek to:

MMCA Organic Garden and Outdoor Classroom

Maria Montessori Charter Academy is a public charter school in Rocklin, CA. We serve about 300 kindergarten through 8th grade students from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds from school districts throughout the surrounding area. Teachers at our school employ a hybrid educational model, utilizing the Montessori philosophy and methodology to achieve state content standards. As a public school, we charge no tuition and students are selected by lottery from the pool of applicants.

 

Gopher Garden

Sam Brannan Middle School’s garden serves the entire campus community through botanical and health education, consumption of healthy food, and appreciation of physical labor. For over a decade, the school garden has been used by numerous students and classes in order to gain a better understanding of how food is grown: from seed to harvest. Topics explored and include: irrigation, fertilizing, pest and weed prevention, pruning, weather, composting, and health benefits.

The Michelle Obama Treasure Island Job Corps Green Acre

The Michelle Obama
Treasure Island Job Corps
Green Acre

In 2009, Treasure Island Job Corps embarked on an incredible community-wide project to create a farm on center. Today, that one-acre piece of land is an active, production-focused, educational farm that touches every aspect of our center. The farm boasts a greenhouse, chickens, an outdoor kitchen, a state-of-the-art irrigation system, orchards, and solar panels.

Edible Estates

EDIBLE ESTATES is an ongoing initiative to create a series of regional prototype gardens that replace domestic front lawns, and other unused spaces in front of homes, with places for families to grow their own food. The twelve gardens planted thus far have been established in cities across the United States and Europe. Adventurous residents in each town have offered their front yards as working prototypes for their region.

Curley K-8 School seed to table

 We have a beautiful outdoor classroom and school grounds where students are able to explore nature in the city.

Our raised beds are used for planting vegetables, herbs, and fruit in the fall, spring and summer. In the spring the 3rd and 4th graders sow the seeds and seedlings, maintain the raised beds and water when necessary. In my science classroom we take observations and measurments of the growth. We notice change over time and discuss what plants need in order to grow. 

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