Kitchen Classrooms

Washington Elementary

School gardens are a wonderful way to use gardening time as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agricultural concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects such as math, science, art, health and physical education while encouraging an understanding of personal and social responsibility. This project will promote healthy lifestyle skills while relating educational goals to the common core and relevant elementary school curriculum.

Garinger High School

The Urban Farm Learning Center is focused on producing fresh healthy food, teaching people to feed themselves in a sustainable way, and workforce development through targeted internships and transitional employment. The Farm is the extension of a school garden started in the 2000's by a Teach for America Service Member, and is the largest produce generator for Charlotte's Meals on Wheels organization, with over 90 gardens in the network and counting.

White's Junior/ Senior High School

Our goal is to involve our "at-risk" youth in the establishment, maintenance, and harvest of a series of gardens. Through this, they will enjoy fresh air and sunshine while learning how to garden. It will provide emotional healing and self-esteem as they watch their garden grow. It will give them opportunity to work with teachers and staff, providing opportunities to talk while working in this informal setting. They will learn about plants and how they grow in relation to achieving healthy, sustainable gardens.

Language Academy

Led by unpaid parent volunteers, Language Academy’s garden program started with a mission to engage students and teachers by inspiring students to respect nature and learn where food comes from. Each class, K-5th, visits the garden for grade-specific lessons. Classes spend an hour, rotating through a Science/gardening lesson, nature play and hands-on nutrition ecology. We create our own curriculum using California FOSS standards as often as possible. This year our garden program will teach 30 classes of more than 775 students. Our school is Title One school with 1,000+ students, K-8th.

Detroit Waldorf School

Detroit Waldorf School's Wellness at Waldorf program was developed with the primary mission to strengthen and build our community around the conversation of food. 

We have a wonderfully diverse population, both within our student body but also our facility and we created this program to share stories and education around food, nutrition, nature and wellness. As Detroiters, we address food equality issues, as well as nutritional education in a mindful manner that is approachable and accessible to all.

Austin Discovery School

We began a small garden when we started our school in 2005. Since then we have developed an entire eco-wellness program that is now part of our core curriculum. We use this garden, in tandem with our composting system and chicken coop, to teach our students a holistic approach not only to science, but to everyday life. Each of our grade levels are responsible for maintaining portions of the garden for the school year as part of the learning process.

Rio Mesa High School

The goal of the Student Garden at Rio Mesa High School is to become a resource designed to teach students with disabilities about sources of healthy foods and the dietary choices that lead to better health, as well as building a foundation for a student-run business. The business will directly benefit students by affording them activities in the community that will increase their access to the curriculum..

Pathfinder K-8

Our garden exists to serve as an outdoor classroom that supports and extends curriculum in the school, builds school community, and encourages awareness around growing and eating nutritious food.

St. Stephen's Academy at Glade Run Lutheran Services

Glade Run Gardens serves as a therapeutic, vocational, and educational program for children throughout Western Pennsylvania. Students at St. Stephen's, Glade Run's private licensed school, participate in horticulture programming as part of their curriculum, learning about plants and the natural environment and developing a love of nature. For children in residential treatment at Glade Run for emotional health issues, the gardens serve still other purposes: horticulture therapy and a vocational program.

EcoSPACES @ Philip's Academy Charter School

OUR MISSION

EcoSPACES is a multidimensional co-curricular program designed to give students the tools to lead healthy and environmentally productive lives in the 21st century.  Utilizing unique learning environments, we seek to inspire students to embrace the highest principles of environmental and nutritional stewardship.  It is our hope that students will make informed decisions for living a life that benefits their bodies and our planet, while understanding the interconnectedness of all living things.

 

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