Kitchen Classrooms

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.

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.

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.

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.