Garden Classrooms

FUNN 2 Project: Families Understanding Nature and Nutrition

The Extended School Program of Murfreesboro City Schools (MCS) is developing a gardening program at 3 schools this sping. The program has 3 funding sources: a grant from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Pillsbury, and the Soil Conservation Service. 

What's Growin' On

What's Growin' On? is an organic garden created from an overgrown, unused courtyard.   While originally used by the seventh grade life science classes to grow organic vegetables and offer a haven for pollinators with geometrically designed perennial beds, it has grown into a school wide resource.

Chase Avenue Elementary School Garden Club

When trying to take care of our garden during the school day became too difficult, I decided to see if there was interest in an after-school Garden Club.  Last year, I had forty 4th and 5th graders who came after school to work in our school gardens.  We made cole slaw with our cabbage, sampled various kinds of lettuce dipped in ranch dressing, made wind chimes, coffee filter butterflies, and made a vermicomposting bin that we fed with compostable items students collected after lunch time.  This year, with the help of my husband (a hydroponics store owner), we opened after school garden clu

Ohlone Elementary School Farm

One of the cornerstones of the developmentally based education at Ohlone Elementary School is the Ohlone Farm, which provides a place where children can interact with and learn about nature. A physical embodiment of Ohlone's Core Values, the Farm helps foster an awareness of the environment, nurturing and caring of animals, cooperative learning, social interactions between children of differing grades and respect for living organisms.

Hy-Vee Sprouts - Get Out and Grow

 Our program began last year after a vision of helping kids in our community connect fresh food to good health by growing their own vegetables and then cooking them outside in an outdoor classroom.  Our program partners with the local school district during the summer to provide a consistent enrollment to attend classes each week that incorporate gardening and cooking all in 90 minutes.  Our program received a Statewide Health Improvement Program grant from the state of Minnesota to build the garden itself which is located at the front of our local Hy-Vee supermarket.

SEEDS Arts and Education, Inc.

 SEEDS Arts and Education, Inc. is a non-profit organization, based in Laguna Beach, CA, committed to the advancement of children’s education by funding programs in the arts, sciences, and humanities. SEEDS supports arts and education programs that promote stewardship of the land, such as organic gardening, environmental awareness, and conservation; and programs that foster academic excellence in literacy, numeracy, science and humanities. SEEDS is devoted to enhancing quality of life for children and their respective communities.

Simply Fueling a Life of Love

 I'm interested in starting an edible schoolyard to incorporate into homeschooling my daughters and as a way to connect with and educate our community in organic gardening.  I need help with ideas of HOW to get started.

UVM Farmer Training Program

The UVM Farmer Training Program is a 6-month intensive program (May 2 -October 31, 2012) for aspiring farmers and food systems advocates that provides a hands-on, skill-based education in sustainable agriculture. This full-time program offers participants the unique opportunity to manage their own growing site, take classes from professors and expert farmers, and rotate as workers and learners on successful, diverse farms in the Burlington area.

CHES Community Garden

 I am a parent volunteer who works with students at my son's (and soon my daughter's) elementary school in the school community garden.  My husband and I (and some parent/teacher volunteers) started the garden 3 years ago.  Our goal was to provide a space for nature exploration for the children and a chance for them to learn how to grow food and enjoy eating the food that they grow.  All of the children (about 360) plant seeds in the garden in the spring and then some children join me in the garden during recess time certain days to maintain the garden and taste what is growing.

NCS Gardens Project

 We are a small charter school in central Indiana.  Currently, 90 kids in K-2 are involved in the gardens project.  Classes have their own raised beds and have weekly garden lessons with a volunteer instructor.  Our program, which doubled in size, is in its second year.  The focus is sustainable organic agriculture, nutrition, broadening food choices,  and understanding natural systems.

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