Garden Classrooms

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.

Planting Seeds of Change , An Edible Educational Endeavor

Planting Seeds of Change
Improving the Health of Our Community through
An Edible Educational Endeavor

About Planting Seeds of Change

St.catherine's community garden

 The St. Catherine's community garden is a place where the entire school can either work together or as classes. 

Sonoma State University Garden Classroom

Sonoma State University (SSU) has an active commitment to sustainability, in both its infrastructure and academic programs. Instilling a sense of environmental stewardship in students has increasingly taken place in a living lab, Copeland Creek, which crosses campus.

The Garden Classroom (Department of Environmental Studies and Planning), adjacent to the creek, has become a hub for university students across campus, and serves as a hands-on, interdisciplinary outdoor classroom for creek restoration activities, habitat gardening, and food production and preparation.

Horace Mann's School Within a Park

Hello,

I am a first grade teacher in Indiana, Pennsylvania.  Our elementary school, Horace Mann, is having a playground design charette workshop for students, parents, teachers, community members, and professionals to re-think and re-design our asphalt playground- this will take place in less than a month.  I have seen your edible schoolyard on many websites, blogs, and videos.  I love your spirit and the whole premis of what you do for your students.  I hope we can incorporate many of your ideas into our new playground. 

Thanks,

Jason Stubbe

Farms in Schools - Putting Real, working farms in schools

Tree Media Foundation's / Urban Roots call to action is to put farms in schools. Across the nation, schools cover large areas of land that are often covered in asphalt. This asphalt-covered land offers up a terrific opportunity to turn it into organic, food-producing land while also creating a valuable, outdoor classroom.

Sustainable Nantucket Farm to School Program

Sustainable Nantucket is a non-profit organization that is cultivating a healthy Nantucket by building a better local food system which in turn means a stronger economy for the island. We are actively expanding sustainable agriculture, on-island farm growth, encouraging entrepreneurial cottage industry, and helping to create new networks for our local agri-business community.

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