Kitchen Classrooms

Lincoln Elementary Garden

Students—from 3-year-olds to 5th graders–-engage in planting seedlings and readying the garden space for spring planting, as well as tending the seedlings in the garden, harvesting and enjoying the produce. Learning about the garden life cycle, where food comes from, the science of seedlings, composting, and participating in cooking demonstrations are all natural extensions of the garden program.

Mark Newbie Garden

 Mark Newbie's edible garden was enabled and begun last year due in part to a Whole Foods garden grant. We have had two full planting seasons teaching children about composting rainbarrel watering, planting , pruning, harvesting and eating raw organic veggies grown by their hands alone. We are an afterschool parent run program that is only part of a larger parent run program called green team encompassing some 60 of the 150 students enrolled in this k-5 suburban elementary school outside of Philadelphia, PA near Camden, NJ. Our goal as parents with this garden is multi fold.

Forest Grove Elementary Garden Program

 Sprouting Chefs Visionary and Founder Barb McMahon strives to connect children and the community to nature by providing cooking and gardening programs including the ever popular, After School Garden Club. It is one thing to build a school garden, it is another feat to create a sustainable thriving program that truly connects and engages the students and community members.

A Sprouting Chefs School Garden Program ideally includes:

Jen School Garden

Opened on Maryville's Des Plaines, IL campus in August 2007, the Jen School is a special education day school for male students, grades 7-12, with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Jen School serves students from Maryville's residential programs and day students from local communities.

Wilson Focus School Gardens

Through a grant from Whole Foods we have been able to construct five raised gardens ,add two greenhouses, install an out door science lab, and construct composting sites. Our school is an 11 month school with an extended school day providing our students with aprox.60 different choices for enrichment classes. Our garden club is a huge success .

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program: Mclaren Vale Primary School

To introduce pleasurable food education into as many Australian schools as possible.

The program emphasises the flavours as well as the health benefits of fresh seasonal food.

Produce that is grown in our gardens is harvested for kitchen classes.

 

Middle School Garden at Maplewood Richmond Heights

Maplewood Richmond Heights school district has an established Seed to Table program with gardens at every grade level. The middle school garden aims to demonstrate a household-size urban farm. The backyard has raised beds for vegetable production, an herb spiral, compost facilities, rainwater catchment, and a border of perennial native plants to attract pollinators. The tiny front yard is a miniature fruit food forest, with strawberries, raspberries, bush cherries, an apple, a peach, and a pear tree.

Washburn Farm to School

 Washburn School District Farm to School Program focuses on providing garden and nutrition education to PreK-8th grade students using project based learning in our garden. Teachers use the garden to enhance Math, Science, Social Studies, Language and Arts education. The overall vision of the Washburn Elementary and Middle School garden project is to provide greater access to and educate the public about locally grown food in the area. The food produced in the garden is utilized in the school cafeteria and in classrooms.

Stoney Hill Community Garden

The Stoney Hill Community Garden is a community garden that provides learning to youth ages K-12 and food to the needy in Greensboro, NC. The community of the garden is low income and in need of healthy and affordable vegetables. Our goal is to end childhood obesity in this neighborhood and encourage sustainable food practices. We are dedicated to changing the lives of many with just a few acts of kindness.

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