School Cafeterias

Gardens to Grow In

Gardens to Grow In is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 with a mission to promote and support healthy and sustainable lifestyles, youth development, community involvement and self-reliance in Calaveras County schools and communities by teaching children and adults how to grow and prepare healthy food. We have developed and/or supported garden and nutrition programs at all nine Calaveras Unified School District (CUSD) schools over the last three years and have partnered with CUSD and the UC Cooperative Extension, Central Sierra to host a FoodCorps service member.

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

"We Nurture our Warm Community Through Whole Food and Culinary Literacy"

Willow Creek Academy Culinary Farm Program

Established in 2014 by a group of committed students, teachers, parents, and community leaders, the Willow Creek Academy Culinary Farm’s mission is to create an engaging, systematic and sustainable outdoor education program in the fields of cooking, gardening and nutrition that deepens the understanding of core knowledge and nurtures a lifelong connection between mind, body, spirit and the environment.

Bridgehampton Edible School Garden

The Bridgehampton Edible School Garden is comprised of a 1,000 square foot greenhouse and a 4,000 square foot garden. It serves the entire school in various ways: teachers take students there for lessons, there is a high school elective taught in the greenhouse and there are after school programs utilizing the garden/greenhouse. Our program is part of a network of local schools with garden programs.

GrowWELL

GrowWELL is an initiative of Chicago Public Schools that supports school gardens to maintain and integrate outdoor and edible education into every grade level, subject area, and school dining center. 

Belmont Day School Garden

The school garden serves three goals for our school community. First, it is a good source for our lunch program. The kitchen staff serves healthy foods, often locally sourced and from our own garden. Another goal is to use the garden as an outdoor classroom, a way to connect to curriculum across many age groups and disciplines, a place to guide students in community service, environmental stewardship, and food justice issues. A third goal is to grow vegetables to use for our school outreach efforts.

Food for Thought - St. Stephen's School Rome

Food for Thought was born out of the shared aspiration to nourish our students with wholesome and honest food, which informs the choices they make for the health of humans and the environment. Through an interdisciplinary approach our mission is to:

Create and sustain an on-campus edible organic garden that is fully integrated into the curriculum and culture of the school

Nourish our community with healthy, nutritious meals inspired by our garden, Roman culinary traditions and locally sourced food

Positively Food: Shanahan Middle School Green Project

Shanahan Middle School, in the heart of Ohio, is the setting for raised garden beds, an outdoor classroom, and a sizable greenhouse. On two separate occssions, I have planned and implemented two school-wide wellness initiatives. The focus of the wellness initiatives have been to empower students to choose real food over processed foods through garden-based learning. Each month, during a specified time, every student was engaged in identifying the ingredients in processed foods and the possible harmful health effects of artificial ingredients, colorings, and perservatives.

Community School of Excellence Edible Schoolyard

Community School of Excellence (CSE) is a public charter school that serves approximately 1,000 students in grades K-8. The school embraces and celebrates the Hmong culture through intercultural understanding and respect. CSE partners with Spark-Y (http://spark-y.org/) - empowering youth through action-oriented labs focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship - and the Design & InnoVation Lab’s CHEW program - Cook Healthy; Eat Well.

Garden Hills Elementary

We grow community around school gardens by providing technical assistance, resources and partnerships to cultivate the next generation of healthy eaters of good, clean and fair food.

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