Kitchen Classrooms

Creating a sustainable organic school garden

We are just begining to create our first school vegetable garden. We are working as a team to create the garden in hopes of moving to a community reform and outreach. We are working toward using collected rainwater and creating compost from school lunches to feed our garden. We are just in the very begining stages.

The Coop School's Rooftop Edible Garden, Brooklyn

 Our edible rooftop garden will be launched in Spring 2012. Each of four pre-K classes will have two planter boxes, one with lettuces, one with herbs. 

Our composting program was launched in January 2012. All lunch scraps are composted in the lunch room using the Bokashi method.

Parents and students will plant together as a Community Event on May 6.

The planters will be fitted with DIY self watering systems, so we hope to be able to sustain the garden through the long hot summer.

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program-University of Maryland Extension

EFNEP stands for Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. EFNEP is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the University of Maryland Extension. The major goals of EFNEP are to help limited-income families and youth acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior changes necessary to promote health/wellness and reduce chronic risk. For more information about EFNEP contact Dr. Mira Mehta.

Buena Vista Edible Schoolyard

The Buena Vista Edible Schoolyard is a collaborative effort between the Grimm Family Education Foundation and the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District. The Foundation, whose mission is to close the achievement gap, graduating students at or above grade level in literacy and math, improve the health of students and families and create economic impact in the communities that we serve, provides fiscal and programmatic support for the principles taught at the Edible Schoolyard.

D.I.G: Dwight Englewood in the Garden

Dwight Englewood School now has three vegetable gardens that support programs in the three divisions of the school.  In lower school, garden work and lessons are integrated into the science curriculum.  In middle school, students can elect the practical sustainability class "D.I.G" (Dwight Englewood in the Garden) or join gardening club, and in high school the garden supports projects in various classes, from Latin to Ethnobotany, as well as a cafeteria composting initiative.

Kitchen Kids

 Kitchen Kids is a from scratch cooking class broken into 4 week sessions. Multiple sessions are held at the local Community Center as each class is limited to a 1:5 participant ratio to ensure quality learning. 

Le Grand Community Garden, Le Grand, California

 We are a community garden that is located on the corner of Cook Street in Le Grand, California.

The garden is grown and maintained by Horticulture students and local student volunteers. We have two acres that is made into 30, 200 foot beds for community plantings. Last year was our first so we only had 6 rows planted, this year we hope to double or tripple community involvement.

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Fusion Academy & Learning Center Edible Garden Workshop

As part of the life skills education at Fusion Academy, a Garden-to-Table workshop was initiated over the summer of 2011. The edible garden portion of this workshop gives students a basic introduction to gardening, with an emphasis on ecology and environmental science. For more advanced students, there is the potential to explore topics in plant and cell biology. The other portion of the workshop includes trips to different farmers markets and farms in Orange County, followed up with lessons in the basics of cooking.

Aspen Elementary School Magical Garden

Aspen School District - Aspen Elementary School's Magical Garden - creating a place to teach, learn, enjoy & eat!

DC Greens

DC Greens runs garden-based professional development workshops to help teachers maximize the educational and nutritional benefits of their school gardens.  We partner with the Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, D.C. to support school garden teachers across the District of Columbia.  

DC Greens advocates for school gardens as a fully staffed component of all public schools. 

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