Garden Classrooms

Fern Creek Elementary School

Fern Creek Elementary School is a Title 1 school located in Orlando, FL. The school has a population of approximately 330 students, with 85% of students on the free/reduced lunch program and 20% of the population considered homeless. The school takes every elementary school student currently living at the Coalition for the Homeless. We have 10 raised bed gardens on campus which are currently planted by our 1st graders, 2nd graders and 5th graders. We're growing tomatoes, watermelons, pumpkins, peppers, bok choy, carrots, beans, strawberries, celery, herbs and flowers. The teachers inco

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The Seedling Project

THE SEEDLING PROJECT

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The Barstow School Garden

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Community Garden Network School Garden Committee

VISION of the CGN School Garden Committee:

Every school in Athens will have a vegetable garden accessible to enhance instruction that engages students, staff, families and the community.

MISSION of the CGN School Garden Committee:

To serve the students and educators of Athens-Clarke County by maintaining a central database of school gardens projects
To connect local schools with the community resources to build and maintain gardens sites as outdoor classrooms

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Greater Plains Student Garden

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Rome Sustainable Food Project

The Rome Sustainable Food Project provides the community of the American Academy in Rome with a collaborative dining program that nourishes scholarship and conviviality. Guided by the indomitable spirit of the Roman table, it is our aim to construct a replicable model for sustainable dining in an institution. In 2006, Alice Waters envisioned the Rome Sustainable Food Project as an eco-gastronomic endeavor that would be a logical extension of the Academy’s values.

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Walker Elementary

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Green Bronx Machine

Green Bronx Machine was born of the belief that we are all AMER-I-CANS! Together, we can grow, re-use resource and recycle our way into new and healthy ways of living; complete with self sustaining local economic engines. Inclusively and collectively, each and every member of our society offers a unique perspective with unlimited potential. Together, we can move those who are "apart from" society to become "part of" the driving force behind new solutions benefiting all of us.