Garden Classrooms

Hooker Oak Open Structured Classroom School Garden

The Hooker Oak Elementary Open Structured Classroom school garden program has been growing for the last five years, revitalilzing the garden area (with the assistance of community business support), and now students have 2-3 sessions, (sessions lasting 3-4 weeks), in the garden: harvesting, seeding, transplanting as well as tasting and cooking from the school garden harvest.  In addtiion, the garden curriculum has been integrated with both Life Science and Common Core ELA, so students are meeting some of their curriculum standards through their experiences in the school garden.

Roseland Boys and Girls Club

An afterschool program offered by the Boys and girls club of Sonoma County that serves 100-150 kids daily.

CASTINGS, Hungry Owl Foundation and The Hilltop Garden Explorer Program

The Hilltop Garden Explorers program, based at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA, works to engage youths and families in an active learning environment through hands on gardening and ancillary cooking, community collaboration, leadership training, business experience, classroom training, recycling/composting and garden art.

Jones Valley Teaching Farm

Good School Food (GSF) is Jones Valley Teaching Farm’s primary program.  GSF is a food education model that connects Pre K-12 students to food through cross-curricular, standards-based content during the school day.  GSF is unique in its approach to food education in public schools in that we provide schools with state-of-the-art teaching farms and full-time staff, known as GSF Instructors, who work with school faculty to develop dynamic programs and curricula. The outcomes of the GSF model are improved student learning and access to healthy food at the school level.  

Digging In The Dirt

 "Digging in the Dirt" is a teacher created landscape plan to utilize our schoolyard as part of the classroom experience at Ethel A. Jacobsen (EJ) Elementary School.

The EJ Schoolyard Garden has been certified as "naturally grown" since 2011!  There are many standards that must be met before a "farm" (our schoolyard garden) can be accepted into the Certified Naturally Grown Program.

Field to Table Schools (FoodShare Toronto)

FoodShare Toronto’s Field to Table Schools (FTTS) program is restoring good food education in schools with hands-on activities, workshops and growing projects. Students from JK to Grade 12 learn about composting, innovative food gardens, nutrition, cooking, local and global food systems and more. The FTTS program reconnects students with food and where it comes from; teaching that good healthy food not only tastes good, but is fun too!

California Montessori Project-Carmichael Schoolyard Garden

Our school will have a ground-breaking in May 2012 for our school-wide garden. Our students have assisted in the planning of the garden and are excited to begin growing and learning about plants and the garden system.

The Oxbow School

The Oxbow School is a rigorous, interdisciplinary semester program for high school students, located in Napa, California. Our mission is to strengthen students’ abilities in creative and critical inquiry by combining rigorous studio art practice with innovative academics. The main focus of the program is studio arts, but an appreciation for nature and respect for the environment are inherent in the values of the school—every student at Oxbow works in the garden, through the science curriculum and the physical education program.

Garden land

We have read in the Sacramento Bee that The Edible Schoolyard is expanding to Sacramento and would be interested in participating, particularly if the San Juan Unified School District joins the expansion.  We have a pasture, slightly less than one acre (and adjoining our own garden), that shares a fence with the large playing field at Albert Schweitzer Elementary School in Carmichael.  Please keep us in mind.

 

Nadine Calder

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