Garden Classrooms

Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard & Community Garden

 The Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard provides students on the Stonehurst Campus with opportunities to explore the natural world using scientific inquiry and to connect academics with knowledge about nurturing the land, growing healthy food, and supporting where they can explore the science of soil, the food cycle, and their place in the web of life.

Wonderland Avenue Elementary 'From The Ground Up'

From The Ground Up was started about a year ago and serves as an edible garden where kids from all grades come out the garden and learn about sustainability by doing hands-on activities. There is also a nutrition compondent of the program where a nutrition educator volunteer gives nutrition lessons in the classroom to discuss various topics like why eating a rainbow is so important, why breakfast is so important, discussing MyPlate, to name a few.

Alamo School Teaching Garden

 Through a grant we applied for last year provided by Alliance for a Healthier Generation, we are in the planning stages of a terraced Teaching Garden at the elementary school. 

We have worked closely with our school district facilities dept. to enlist their services to repair the existing irrigation system, as well as remove all existing vegetation, lay weed retardant and bark prior to the beginning of construction and planting.

Veggie U

 Veggie U is dedicated to increasing children’s awareness of healthy food options, and teaching them how real food reaches their plate. We believe children who are exposed to growing their own food are more likely to include vegetables in their diet. Our national non-profit organization supplies Classroom Gardens and a standards based, five-week science program to elementary and special needs students. Over 6,500 Veggie U Classroom Gardens have sprouted in 36 states. Learn more at www.VeggieU.org

FATT Food at the Table

We are a group of elementary age students in Upstate New York, who after seeing the movie FOOD Inc. are looking into ways of helping the less fortunate in our community have access to good healthy food.
Our group FATT ( Food at the Table) hopes to answer the needs of our community, We have developed a plan to help feed the needy of Victor with fresh healthy produce.

How will this be done?

1. Encourage people to plant vegetable gardens

Cale School Garden

 Flowers, fruit and vegetables grown by the students at Paul H. Cale Elementary School.

Mechanics Grove Garden of Wisdom

 Our organic garden will grow vegetables, flowers, bulbs, prairie grasses and fruits.  We will share our harvest with our local foodbank.  Our children consistently emphasize good health habits.  We are committed to healthy lifestyles.

Triskeles Food for Thought Program

Food for Thought Program (5 weeks summer):
• Annually, 50 teens, approximately 75% are underserved
• Youth employment, workforce readiness and job skill development
• Organic growing procedures, bed preparation, natural insect controls, cultivation and seed harvesting
• Eco-literacy instruction on soil preparation, water conservation techniques, recycling and composting, waste reduction
• Cooking with whole foods, nutrition and making healthy food choices
• Outdoor, physical activities
• Marketing local foods and exploring the food industry

The San Francisco School

The San Francisco School is an educational community that both teaches our children with the future in mind and models all that we hope our children as adults will strive to create in society.

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