Kitchen Classrooms

Promise of Peace Community Gardens

The Promise of Peace, (P.O.P.), Gardens was established in 2009 as an effort to bring diverse groups of people together on common ground while connecting to nature and learning to grow REAL food and then to celebrate the food as we shared the harvest. The mission of P.O.P. is to create equal access to nutritious food for all children and their families. We transform vacant places into thriving growing spaces where our programming changes lives one seed at a time.

Detroit Achievement Academy

We are an elementary school on the northwest side of Detroit that currently serves 105 students between the ages of 5-10. Since opening our doors, we have been the highest performing primary school in the city, with our students’ academic growth in the 99th percentile nationally. As a school we exist to holistically support the education and development of students who have the determination, drive, and skills to shape their own path of high achievement with the ultimate goal of creating civically engaged, joyful citizens who are ready to change the world.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  We believe hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do two things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food.

SPEC School Gardens Program

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

 

Belle Chasse Academy

The mission of the Belle Chasse Academy Victory Garden is to provide students and their families with life skills, health literacy, and economic insight through the integration of the garden and kitchen classroom experience into our daily school curriculum and the local economy.  This will be accomplished through a hands-on holistic approach that immerses students in gardening, making healthy food choices, improving our environment, and becoming a community with a smaller carbon footprint and larger ecological “hand-print.”

Ashley River Garden Gourmet Club

Our Garden Gourmet Club is made of 4th and 5th grade students that want to learn how to garden and use fresh produce to create healthy snacks and meals!  We have raised beds, a greenhouse, and an indoor grow lab where we grow vegetables like lettuce, carrots, radishes, and much more!  We then take our harvest to our kitchen lab to cut, chop, and create healthy foods!

pleasantville edible school gardens

Pleasantville gardens serve the elementary, middle and high school. Students grow, harvest and eat the crops. Healthy eating and good nutrition is taught. 

Horicon Mindful Edible Schoolyard

Matrix of Change, a local non-profit sustainability group founded by Mary-Dee Bowers in the 1990s, has provided Horicon School with both a mindfulness program, (Goldie Hawn's MindUp Program) and a working garden with fencing, tools, garden boxes, and now a new portable green house so that each classroom has its own garden area. Horicon's dedicated administration, faculty, and staff, and a group of local volunteers help the children build and reestablish their own gardening systems each year.

Granite Mountain Garden Program

After-school garden club and cooking club is facilitated by FoodCorps and funded by the 21st Century Grant. Programs presents gardening and nutrition education in a fun, hands-on way with science as the foundation for learning. Program also includes school-wide taste tests of local produce and integrating healthy produce into school events, such as bake sales.

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