Kitchen Classrooms

MARC Community and School Garden

Our garden program is one piece of our community's goal to make healthy food accessible and affordable for all residents. Our goal is for students to be invested in both their own health and the environment; we believe they can do this by working outside and developing a relationship with the garden space. When students are involved in the process of growing and preparing food, we believe they will be more excited to eat fresh foods.

Sweet Potato Kids, Inc.

Sweet Potato Kids, Inc. is a social enterprise and MBE certified small business providing early learning, after-school and summer camp programming. We are located in Randallstown, Maryland (Baltimore County). We service Title 1 schools in the neighboring communities and 25% of our students receive free and or reduced lunch. Our student population is 98% African American. It is our sincerest goal to decrease the disparity in the achievement gap as it relates to minority students. During the school year, we service 60 students and summer camp, 100 students.

Crane School

We have three gardens on our campus: the upper garden classroom beds and chicken coop, the lower garden- a traditional garden plot, and the Crane Country Farm- a hydroponic garden, designed with the goal that they serve as a collection of outdoor classrooms to teach our students an appreciation of nature, put the fundamentals of the scientific method in to practice and encourgage healthy food choices. 

Monte del Sol Charter School

Monte del Sol is a charter school that was founded under principles of sustainablity; a school garden fits well into the school's values. The mission of the garden program is to engage students in integrated, experiential lessons in an outdoor study area; to create, in collaboration with students, a productive, sustainable, organic garden; to instill values, grow stewardship, and promote activism regarding issues of food, environmental, and social justice; and to encourage critical thinking concerning personal health and diet.

Montessori Gardens

II have launched several seed to table programs in New York and New Jersey Montessori schools. I plan to have a classroom start in August I have acess to an organic community garden that I will start planting with students.

Our goal is to work in a Montessori environment that incorporates all aspects of life.Planning,planting,tending,harvesting and prepairing meals from our garden to introduce children(and community) to delicious and nutricious local organic foods are life long skills that start at an early age.

NMHS Community Garden

WHO WE ARE

  • NMHS SPECIAL NEEDS

A total of 153 students are classified as special needs. 43 students are in SDC (Special Day Classes).  Of those, 9 are in the Moderate/Severe SDC class.  The other 110 students with Individual Education Programs receive RSP (Resource Specialist) services.  The Garden offers a practical application of job and life skills training for the students that is incorporated in many classes for these students to augment, replace cirriculum outside their skill sets.

 

Greenock Elementary School Garden

Chris Estadt and Gail Fleckenstein, teachers at Greenock Elementary School, started the garden in 2012 with funds provided by the Parent Teacher Organization. All teachers throughout the school year along with a summer program teach classes. Our school, which houses kindergarten through second grade, benefits from the garden by aligning common core standards and food literacy into the school environment. Students work in the garden, from planning to planting, and from harvest to table.

Cindy's garden to Table

Cindy's Garden to Table is a business interested in educating youth and adults about the importance of nutrition and health for the family and individual. Cindy's mission is to educate children and adults about the importance of diet to their overall health. By eating a whole foods plant-based diet we can heal our bodies and achieve optimal health. By teaching a love of organic gardening and cooking that uses fresh, seasonal ingredients, we can learn to enjoy our food choices, and heal our bodies and our planet.

Upper Canada College Learning Garden

The UCC Learning Garden began in 2005, based on an initiative among the students, staff, teachers and community.  Our mission in the garden is to integrate food, culture, curriculum and culture.  We are an urban, all-boys independent school, from sk-grade 12.  Our 35 acre campus was filled with manicured green spaces, but there were no places for children to explore and connect with earth.  While our student population is affluent, conversations about food revealed that most boys only saw food coming from groceries stores.

Mollen Foundation-Garfield's Garden on the Corner

The Mollen Foundation, a 501 C(3) non-profit organization since 2008, is dedicated to educating and empowering schools and communities to transform their lives by adopting healthy habits to achieve life-long benefits. The Mollen Foundation offers a comprehensive approach to healthy living through food education, physical activity, leadership and resiliency skills. Our Farm to Table collaboration began in 2012 as a project with a passionate group of high school students, called Newtrition, after a protest in the cafeteria to bring healthy food to their campus.

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