Garden Classrooms

New Demonstration Program

Interested in starting a demonstration project focused on healthy eating and social entrepreneurship.

Damar Growth for Kids Garden

Damar’s organic garden project is called Growth for Kids Garden. It is an outdoor learning environment designed to engage students age 6-19 in the development of a school garden while promoting healthy nutrition and positive social skills. Our garden helps improve academic retention through an engaging connection between in-class learning and hands-on experiences during the summer, from science and math to nutrition and literacy. We study worms, weather, sunlight, and what our plants need to grow.

Catlin Gabel School Garden

 The Catlin Gabel School Garden is an organic garden on the campus of The Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon. The school educates pre-kindergarten through high school students, and many students have helped to create the garden of 18 raised beds, several benches, a greenhouse, two outdoor classroom structures with green roofs, several trellises with fruits, and a cob pizza oven.

Sprouts Cooking Club

Mission

  • Sprouts’ strives to teach Bay-Area children of all socio-economic backgrounds how to cook, hands-on, with real chefs, using real ingredients, in real restaurants whenever possible.

 

Description

  • Sprouts' Cooking Club is a program based in the East Bay that provides children the opportunity to cook in real restaurants with real ingredients, right alongside real chefs.

 

Mentors/ Inspiration

FARMS Leadership Program

The FARMS Leadership program brings high school students out of the classroom and onto farms, ranches, universities, agricultural businesses and processing facilities, and other agricutlure-focused sites. Students learn about sustainable agriculture, leadership skills, college studies and careers related to sustainability through hands-on work and mentoring from professionals in the field.

The Center for Land-Based Learning operates the FARMS Leadership program in seven regions of California:

School Garden Support

The Heart of Texas Urban Gardening Coalition (UGC) helps to support school gardening in Waco!

The Green Academy at Rosemont High

The Green Academy: Urban Ag, Food, and the Environment

Mission:

The Green Academy at Rosemont High prepares students for college and career through the study of Biology, Environmental Science, and Culinary Arts. Students learn about food production, cooking, natural resources, and the environment.

Description:

JIES Beacon Experience Garden

The JIES Beacon Experience Garden will  educate students to cherish their health, wellness and environment. The garden will provide fresh fruit and vegetables to students and their families and encourage and educated them to be successful in planting and maintain a home garden.  The garden will be a catalyst for our students to become responsible, healthy, eco-friendly adults.

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