School Cafeterias

ISD 287

 ISD 287 is an intermediate school district serving 12 school districts in Hennepin County, Minnesota. I work in the alternative schools. At South Education Center we applied for and were awarded a Bloomington Public Health SHIP grant to build 12 raised garden beds. I entered First Lady Michelle Obama's Recipes for Healthy Kids contest, which I found out about from Bloomington Public Health, and we won the Grand Prize in the nation for our Turkey Porcupine Slider Recipe. We serve a very diverse population of students.

Greenwood School Garden

Greenwood School Garden currently features six raised beds (one for each class level) and is working on integrating growing vegetables into the school curriculum as well as using the garden to teach children about healthy eating. 

Princeton School Gardens Cooperative

The Princeton School Gardens Cooperative is small 501c3 that works to increase food literacy in the public schools.

Mission: Fostering garden- and food-based education in the classroom, cafeteria and community.

Lincoln Elementary Garden

Students—from 3-year-olds to 5th graders–-engage in planting seedlings and readying the garden space for spring planting, as well as tending the seedlings in the garden, harvesting and enjoying the produce. Learning about the garden life cycle, where food comes from, the science of seedlings, composting, and participating in cooking demonstrations are all natural extensions of the garden program.

Jen School Garden

Opened on Maryville's Des Plaines, IL campus in August 2007, the Jen School is a special education day school for male students, grades 7-12, with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Jen School serves students from Maryville's residential programs and day students from local communities.

Pingry School Kitchen Garden

 We decided to create a kitchen garden both to provide our kitchen with fresh produce and to donate to food banks in our area.  In addition, we use the kitchen garden as a teaching space and to promote our expanding programs on sustainability.

Paramount School of Excellence STEAM Program

Paramount School of Excellence incorporates its edible schoolyard into the K-8 curriculum. Every class has a garden plot to maintain. As a school, this process helps children discovery a vast array of curricular connections through gardening.

Food for Thought Ojai

Mission Statement Food for Thought works with the local community to support, educate and inspire our school children and their families to make healthier food choices. Food for Thought (FFT) was organized by a group of concerned parents, educators and growers who first came together in the spring of 2002 to improve the nutritional status and food awareness of children in the Ojai Unified School District (OUSD).

Middle School Garden at Maplewood Richmond Heights

Maplewood Richmond Heights school district has an established Seed to Table program with gardens at every grade level. The middle school garden aims to demonstrate a household-size urban farm. The backyard has raised beds for vegetable production, an herb spiral, compost facilities, rainwater catchment, and a border of perennial native plants to attract pollinators. The tiny front yard is a miniature fruit food forest, with strawberries, raspberries, bush cherries, an apple, a peach, and a pear tree.

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