Garden Classrooms

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life. For the Italian school gardens, growing a cabbage with the help of a grandpa is a way to create a new link with the older generation, improve manual abilities and social skills, and learn how to organize and care for common space.

Initiated November 2013, this model food recovery effort began with a partnership agreement between the Ramona Unified School District and the County of San Diego. This program was developed in order to address college and career readiness goals aligned with 21st themes such as global awareness and environmental literacy and follows the EPA’s hierarchy of source reduction, food donation and animal feed methods.  Additionally, AB1826 compliance requirements are met for the Ramona Unified School District.