Kitchen Classrooms

The Learning Tree: Rooted in the Arts

 The Learning Tree is a private alternative school   founded by Sharon Tiner, teacher and visionary. To date it has operated as a summer school with components of Art in the Garden, Art in the Kitchen and Art in the curriculum.  Staff of the Learning Tree visited the Edible Garden in 2010 and find the intentions and goals to be complementary.   We would be interested in being a possible model site in the greater Sacramento area.

The facility has been established and is being groomed to serve upper elementary students who want to learn in a creative and loving environment.

The Garden Preschool

The Garden Preschool will serve children and their families in economically and nutritionally challenged communities.

The Garden Preschool will work closely with children and their families to introduce them to the benefits of being involved with nature and growing their own food.

The Garden Preschool will teach children and their families how to prepare nutritious vegetable based meals.  Families will learn the correlation between healthy eating and optimal health and wellness; thus thwarting the incidence of diet related diseases.

Sacramento COE Sustainable Environment Program

We are a public school program, run by Sacramento County Office of Education, serving youth with emotional and behavioral difficulties who cannot be served by their home schools/ districts.  A major part of our emphasis is to better prepare these students to move from school to the adult world.  One of our innovative programs is the "Sustainable Environments Academy", a grouping of high school students who help develop a school-based garden which supports our restaurant, our Farmer's Market, and our community service projects.

Urban Harvest Gardening Education

Urban Harvest promotes healthy communities, sound nutrition and respect for the environment by educating children and adults and facilitating harvest and habitat gardens.

 We support a network of school community gardens in the Houston area, as well as a partnering with nearly 20 schools sites to provide Garden Educators and community partnerships in Edible Education.

 

Lavender, Joe-Pye and Bumblebees

 I am the environmental science coordinator at my school and want to expand the organic garden we started last year.  Two classes participated, including my own (I am also a fourth-grade classroom teacher).  This year, I am attempting to inspire more teachers to get involved.  We have parental and community support for our endeavors and so I anticipate greater involvement from our teachers this year.  

Kidz-R-Brite At The Farm Gardening Program

I have two preschool/daycares and have an organic garden at both locations in Ladysmith, BC, Canada.  We just purchased the second location last year and we have 2 1/2 acres to work with.  Lots of space to grow fruits and vegetables.  I am searching for more ideas on expanding our current gardens so that we can be more self-sustaining in growing food for both personal and staff and also for the families that attend our school.  I am so excited about your program; its awesome.  We all are so keen to learn new gardening techniques.  I thank you so much for offering such a wonderful program to

Planting Justice

Planting Justice is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Oakland, California with a mission to democratize access to affordable nutritious food by empowering urban residents with the skills, resources, and knowledge to grow organic food, expand economic opportunities, and take action for environmental justice and sustainability in the San Francisco Bay Area. We work to achieve our mission through four programs. Our Urban Food Forest program brings low-income urban residents together to build cooperative, productive gardens at schools, community centers, and apartment complexes.

Cooking with Kids, Inc.

Cooking with Kids motivates and empowers elementary school students to make healthy food choices. Through hands-on nutrition education activities, kindergarten through 6th grade students explore, prepare, and enjoy fresh, affordable foods from around the world. A 5th grader says it best: “Do you know what the passion of food is? It’s the way the food smells and tastes – it’s the food that I like!”

Hooker Oak Open Structured Classroom School Garden

The Hooker Oak Elementary Open Structured Classroom school garden program has been growing for the last five years, revitalilzing the garden area (with the assistance of community business support), and now students have 2-3 sessions, (sessions lasting 3-4 weeks), in the garden: harvesting, seeding, transplanting as well as tasting and cooking from the school garden harvest.  In addtiion, the garden curriculum has been integrated with both Life Science and Common Core ELA, so students are meeting some of their curriculum standards through their experiences in the school garden.

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