Kitchen Classrooms

Moss Haven Farm provides nutritional, agricultural and environmental education on an urban school farm that grows student skills in academics, healthy lifestyle and giving back to the community. Our school farm serves the community surrounding Moss Haven Elementary, a diverse neighborhood of Lake Highlands in northeast Dallas, Texas. It is considered to be an urban community with a blend of single-family dwellings and apartment communities.

SEEDS is a nonprofit organization in Northeast Central Durham with a 2-acre urban garden and kitchen classroom. We aspire to develop the capacity of young people through growing, cooking and sharing food. We promote the principles of responsbility, environmental stewardship, community, equity, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership, sustainability, experiential learning through seeds-to-feast, educational programming for young people who attend primary and secondary schools.

Orlando Junior Academy is a Christian, Seventh-day Adventist school located in the neighborhood of College Park in Orlando, Florida.  Our school garden's purpose is to extend the students' curriculum beyond the classroom to the outdoors where the natural world becomes the textbook.  Our nutritional science lab also challenges the typical classroom setting by integrating math and science into the cultural appreciation of nutritious and delicious food. These venues provide our students with experiences that are inspiring and engaging, experiences that require critical thinking skills, discipl

After several years of discussion and volunteerism with community gardens, we were able to find the means to launch a Learning Garden on site and we completed our first growing season in 2011. It was a resounding success and we are excited about developing further opportunities to integrate the use of the space and create additional opportunities for our students and community.