Kitchen Classrooms

What's Growin' On

What's Growin' On? is an organic garden created from an overgrown, unused courtyard.   While originally used by the seventh grade life science classes to grow organic vegetables and offer a haven for pollinators with geometrically designed perennial beds, it has grown into a school wide resource.

Ohlone Elementary School Farm

One of the cornerstones of the developmentally based education at Ohlone Elementary School is the Ohlone Farm, which provides a place where children can interact with and learn about nature. A physical embodiment of Ohlone's Core Values, the Farm helps foster an awareness of the environment, nurturing and caring of animals, cooperative learning, social interactions between children of differing grades and respect for living organisms.

Hy-Vee Sprouts - Get Out and Grow

 Our program began last year after a vision of helping kids in our community connect fresh food to good health by growing their own vegetables and then cooking them outside in an outdoor classroom.  Our program partners with the local school district during the summer to provide a consistent enrollment to attend classes each week that incorporate gardening and cooking all in 90 minutes.  Our program received a Statewide Health Improvement Program grant from the state of Minnesota to build the garden itself which is located at the front of our local Hy-Vee supermarket.

Simply Fueling a Life of Love

 I'm interested in starting an edible schoolyard to incorporate into homeschooling my daughters and as a way to connect with and educate our community in organic gardening.  I need help with ideas of HOW to get started.

Friends of Holly Hill Farm

The Friends of Holly Hill Farm is the non-profit education center based at Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset, MA.  Holly Hill Farm is a certified organic vegetable, flower, and herb farm with just under 4 acres under cultivation.  The farm sells to the public and to a few local restaurants.  In addition to the growing fields and buildings, the farm is home to 130  acres of beautiful woods with marked trails and diverse habitats including open fields, streams, salt water marsh, and vernal pools.

Healthy Communities Coalition

Since 2010, Healthy Communities Coalition has strategically worked towards improving our area’s food system. We began developing a food hub by connecting local, state, and federal agencies, tribal groups, farmers, businesses, and community volunteers around the goal of creating an affordable, accessible and fair food system that bolsters our local agriculture economy, provides for residents in need, builds demand for locally grown foods, and creates a sustainable source of healthy food.

Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard & Community Garden

 The Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard provides students on the Stonehurst Campus with opportunities to explore the natural world using scientific inquiry and to connect academics with knowledge about nurturing the land, growing healthy food, and supporting where they can explore the science of soil, the food cycle, and their place in the web of life.

Triskeles Food for Thought Program

Food for Thought Program (5 weeks summer):
• Annually, 50 teens, approximately 75% are underserved
• Youth employment, workforce readiness and job skill development
• Organic growing procedures, bed preparation, natural insect controls, cultivation and seed harvesting
• Eco-literacy instruction on soil preparation, water conservation techniques, recycling and composting, waste reduction
• Cooking with whole foods, nutrition and making healthy food choices
• Outdoor, physical activities
• Marketing local foods and exploring the food industry

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