Garden Classrooms

CICS - Irving Park Elementary School Garden

CICS - Irving Park Elementary School is a Chicago Public School Charter School. We are located on the northwest side of Chicago in the Irving Park neighborhood. 70% of our students receive free or reduced fee lunch. Our school is 70% Latino.

Last year, parents built a raised bed school garden and wencelebrated our first harvest by making butternut squash soup for our teaching staff. This year will mark our second growing season. 

Cultivating Curiosity

 Cutivating Curiosity is a Farm to School Program started at McKinley Elementary school in Salem in partnership with our parent-teacher club. We are just starting on our goal of promoting healthy, local eating to students and raising their awareness of where our food comes from. 

Brownsville Student Farm Project; The Garden at PS 323

The garden at PS323 is a 7,500 ft2 mini-farm build and administered by a seperate non-profit, Student Farm Project.  The Project is located in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

West Point Elementary School Garden Project

West Point Elementary School Garden is beginning it's third season of in-ground, organic gardening. We have spent the first two years building, cultivating and amending our very poor soil. Despite this, we have been able to grow many vegetables and fruits including tomatoes, squash, peas, corn, cucumbers, strawberries, potatoes, onions and garlic. Most of the harvest is eaten right there in the garden, but some is added to our salad bar in the school cafeteria.

Greensboro Progressive Charter School

We are in process of putting this together to open in 2013.  We will up date it as we get more information.

Mile High Farm

Mile High Farm serves as an experiential educational classroom specializing in permaculture principles and ethics. Applying natural systems and organic gardening methods, we collect and hold over 10,000 gallons of rainwater during our (2) known rain seasons annually. We've planted native perennials, fruit and nut trees, and incorporate chickens into our successful system. As a satellite campus, we work closely with local universities, preschools, and professional adults offering tours, classes, and hands-on lessons.

Wakulla's Charter School of the Arts, Science and Technology

Currently our garden is small, with a variety of edibles and flowers. I would like to expand our program to feed our school and eventually, have an organic farmer's market run by the students. We have a wonderful master gardener volunteer, and community support.

Cultivating Dreams

 Cultivating Dreams is a student-run nonprofit organization that oversees an organic garden inside the California Institution for Women (CIW), a prison in Corona, CA. The garden is maintained through the collective effort of the women inside and volunteers from the Claremont College community. The fruits and vegetables grown in the garden are sent in the prison’s main kitchen or intensive care unit. Cultivating Dreams could not function without the support of the prison staff and warden of CIW.

Cultivating Dreams Objectives:

San Antonio High School Food Justice Program

 The San Antonio High School Food Justice program is a hands-on, interdisciplinary class focused on building community around sustainable food. Since the fall of 2010, students have planted, maintained, and harvested over 3,200 square feet of raised bed gardens. The class educates at-risk youth about healthy food choices and food justice politics by reading and discussing articles and watching videos related to current food justice, health, and environmental issues.

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