Kitchen Classrooms

Garden School Foundation

 The Garden School Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to garden-based education. Our pilot program at the 24th Street Elementary School in the West Adams neighborhood of South Los Angeles was founded when the school community decided that kids had enough asphalt - and not enough nature. 7 years later, the 24th Street gardens span over 1 acre and include 55 fruit trees, 20 vegetable beds, habitat gardens, Native CA Woodlands, a reading garden, and multiple teaching spaces.

Bija Vidyapeeth, Earth University

Navdanya's educational initiative Bija Vidyapeeth, in partnership with the Schumacher College in UK, offers a unique opportunity to explore and practise the art and science of sustainability based on ecological principles at the peaceful pollution-free setting of Navdanya's organic farm in Doon Valley.

Project Primal at West Broward High

We are a High School micro-farm that grows and sells tomatoes, lettuce, sweet potatoes, and herbs to teachers and the community.  We also pride ourselves in building school gardens for other neighboring schools.

Food for Life Program at Holden Christian Academy

Holden Christian Academy
Food for Life

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and finish his work.” John 4:34

Farm to School at Davis Stuart

We are a residential juvenile facility with the desire to teach nutritious food choices, healthy/gourmet food preparation and hands-on planting/picking and preserving of our school greenhouse and garden.  We also teach and practice entrepreneurship lessons, including growing, preparing and selling our own hot pepper jelly, salsa and pine wreaths.  This is our first year to have a class entitled Farm to School and we are learning and working hard to create a viable program that will be helpful and useful to students in their future endeavors. 

San Domenico School Garden of Hope

 The Garden of Hope is a sacred place and learning center for San Domenico students and faculty, but has expanded to become a model for the greater community. Our sustainability program has been featured in articles in the Marin Independent Journal, Marin Magazine, Terra Magazine, Red Orbit, More Marin, and other magazines such as Fast Forward. It is known as a place to showcase how other school gardens, community organizations, and individuals can learn how to live more sustainably with the earth.

SPHS Gardens

South Philadelphia High School Gardens, or SPHS Gardens for short, are located in two formerly vacant lots on either side of the school's parking lot. A local South Philly neighborhood organization, the Lower Moyamensing Civic Association (LoMo), teamed up with South Philadelphia HS in 2012 to create a vegetable garden for students and neighbors to share. The raised bed gardens serve as an outdoor classroom for hands-on science, math, ESOL, english, culinary arts, and special education lessons.

Peralta Garden and Kitchen

Peralta Elementary School in Oakland, California has extensive vegetable and flower gardens, a native bee garden as well as a schoolwide culinary arts program. 

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Project EAT

Project EAT ( Educate, Act, Thrive.) serves 25,000 students directly. Initiated ten years ago at two schools in the Hayward Unified School District, Project EAT now serves 50 schools in five school districts with a yearly budget over $4 million dollars. Currently, the award winning, nationally recognized Project EAT serves Hayward, Livermore, San Leandro, and San Lorenzo school districts with primary funding from the Network for a Healthy California, funded by the California Department of Public Health.

Edible Sac High

The mission of Edible Sac High is to provide students with a transformational experience by giving them the tools they will need to assume ownership for the well-being of themselves and the student body at large. It will provide these tools through an integrated curriculum across three main activities: a school garden, a kitchen classroom, and a student-run cafeteria. A blueprint for this program will be shared with high schools across both the state of California and the nation. 

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