Kitchen Classrooms

Valley View Elementary School

 I am a new organic gardener and I am a mother of a new Kindergartner. I am on the PTA and I would LOVE to begin this program on her campus. We are the second smallest school in our district and an old-world, yummy feel exists on the campus and an organic gardening program would be a WONDERFUL addition to the after school curriculum. 

 

I am just a mom with a vision at this point. I have not asked the principal yet if this is something of interest...though I can't see how anyone would object.

Springdale Park Elementary School

 Springdale Park Elementary School is part of Atlanta Public Schools. SPARK was built as a certified LEED Gold school with the unique feature of a roof-top garden. The building was designed by Perkins+Will and has won the Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence, the AIA Georgia Design Award, and the USGBC Award for Excellence in Sustainability in 2010. It was recently highlighted by the United States Green Building Council through their "High Performance, Healthy Schools" program for both their physical resources and their programming. 

Briscoe Elementary Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ Program with Recipe for Success Foundation

Since September 2006, 528 children have participated in RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ programming each month.

All the students receive monthly classes in the Recipe Garden and the 4th graders also get a monthly Chefs in Schools™ cooking class with a celebrity chef. Participating RFS Chefs in Schools instructors are: Garth Blackburn, Sub-Zero Wolf (monthly classes since 2008); Barbara McKnight, Catering by Culinaire (monthly classes since 2006); GianCarlo Ferrara, Arcodoro (monthly classes since 2009); Mariquita Combes, La Villette Catering (monthly classes since 2009)

Recipe for Success Foundation

Recipe for Success Foundation's Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ has taught over 16,000 Houston elementary children how to grow, harvest, and cook their own healthy food. A growing list of 80 high-profile Houston chefs volunteer their time to help. The only initiative in the country of it's scope, the RFS Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ program introduces children to the entire cycle of food along with taste and flavor combinations, techniques, and skills that will serve them for a lifetime, and empowers them to prepare healthy meals and snacks for themselves.

Carlton Landing Academy

Carlton Landing Academy is a new public magnet school located in Carlton Landing on the shores of Lake Eufaula in eastern Oklahoma. Students are able to grow veggies, pick berries and raise chickens in the community garden - just across the street from the school buildings.

City of Oakland Community Gardens Program

The City of Oakland's Community Gardens Program provides 16 community gardens and 17 youth programs citywide.  Our youth programs provide children ages 4-13 with the opportunity to learn where their food comes from, growing organic herbs and vegetables for cooking onsite at recreation centers, or at home with their families.  Please contact program coordinator Peter Collier at 510.238.2197 for more information, or send him an email at pcollier@oaklandnet.com.  You can also visit a City of Oakland recreation center to see how you can get involved

Edible School Garden Designs

As a cookbook author and kitchen garden designer, I see opportunities for schools to create beautiful gardens that go beyond growing basic food. I work with school gardeners who seek creative ways to build edible garden areas to invite the whole school community to spend time outdoors connecting to the food that is grown miraculously from a small seed.
 

Patterson High School Garden Program

 Patterson High School already has a small organic school garden of two raised beds.  Currently, a group of school social workers are maintaining the garden, and selling the produce to staff in order to generate further garden funding.

 

I would like to expand the garden and incorporate students and classrooms into it.  There is desire for this among staff.

Powell GT Elementary Community Courtyard Gardens

The Powell GT Magnet gardens and outdoor classrooms are educational spaces and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education. We have partnered with Sixth Sun (www.sixthsun.co) and NCSU landscape design department to design and build gardens and outdoor classrooms at our elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Eventually our outdoor courtyard space will also have a rain garden, pollinator gardens and an outdoor stage for theatrical productions and concerts.

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