Garden Classrooms

   The Farmin’ Fun Day Camp provides summer fun for boys and girls ages 4 and older. Activities include environmental exploration, arts and crafts, farming and gardening, animal care, games and much more. The garden will be abundant with vegetables to harvest and sell, the pygmy goats will be caring for new babies in the Bat Barn and you’ll meet other animal residents… donkeys, sheep, goats and chickens! Children of all ages care for the animals each day, work in the gardens, learn about and tend the compost piles, go fishing, hiking, and explore the creek.

The Mill Valley Children's Garden is a ½-acre edible school garden and outdoor classroom, located on the campus of Edna Maguire Elementary School. Started in 1990, the organic and pesticide-free garden is a hands-on treasure for exploratory experimentation as well as age-appropriate, curriculum-based teaching that encompasses math, science, art, writing, nutrition, cooking, and personal and social responsibility.

We are a residential Environmental Education Program and a Montessori Day school. Two programs that complement each other. We are on 400 acres and have a farm and organic garden. The students raise chickens lamas Goats and Ducks.

Creative Lives, a solutions-based team of educators helping children to increase well-being, resilience and to fulfill their creative potential. Creative Lives programs offer simple but powerful tools for change, supporting school communities, teachers and parents in attending to the creative well-being of children. The arts, the natural world, improvisation, the creative spirit within each child--these rich arenas provide resources for learning that fuel children’s individual passions and reveal the profound interconnections we share.

The Edible Schoolyard at Hunters Point, established in 2008, is an organic teaching garden and kitchen program at The Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club in San Francisco. It is the first afterschool program in the country to become a founding affiliate of The Edible Schoolyard Project, which was started in Berkeley by Alice Waters. For just $10 a year, cooking and gardening classes are offered to three age groups each week: elementary, middle school, and high school youth.

Teach Outside is a wiki designed to inspire teachers to... Teach Outside! There is an ever-growing list of resources for those who already teach outside and for those who have yet to get their hands dirty, so to speak. Anyone can download, add, or edit content in the Creative Commons environment. Check it out!

**Due to debt issues, Tuscon Unified School District has made budget cuts and closures to smaller schools with low enrollment numbers and low test scores in the district. Unfortunately, Menlo Park Elementary will be closing at the end of the 2013 school year.

The Greenway Youth Garden began in 2009 with parent volunteers focused on creating a garden on the ground of Greenway Elementary School. Through long hard hours and donated materials the garden popped up on the South East side of the school. A recycled pallet and stucco wall surrounds the 4,800 square foot garden that contains a circular stone meeting area as well as 18 raised beds made from recycled pallets, two by tens lumber and cinder blocks. The Mission: To provide direct access to a plant rich garden environment for elementary age children in Bisbee, AZ.