School Cafeterias

Ecotrust Farm to School

Ecotrust works with schools, childcare centers, hospitals, and colleges to increase procurement of local foods. One of the key tools we use to find farmers is FoodHub (www.food-hub.org), Ecotrust’s online directory and marketplace for buyers and sellers of regional food.

Farm to Table New Mexico

Farm to Table's Farm to School program aims to connect children with agriculture, nature, healthy and local foods and their environment throughout New Mexico --making that critical link between children, youth, their families, agriculture, and the development of healthier eating habits.

Brattleboro Food Co-op's Education & Outreach

Our program goals:

to introduce a variety of healthy, natural and locally grown foods to school children to broaden their food experience.

to increase students understanding about where food comes from.

to provide students with nutrition information enabling them to make healthy food choices.

Montessori Children's Place Garden

One of the central themes of the Montessori philosophy is the connection with the natural world of the outdoors. The children have the daily opportunity to experience the outdoors with structure and purpose. They learn how to use their hands in everyday endeavors focused on the earth.

New Era Academy

We call ourselves The Edible Era Scholars We are an afterschool program that meets twice a week for our Chef and Garden club. Each week we are cooking or tending to our 10 raised beds at New Era Academy in Cherry Hill, Maryland. We only create vegetarian foods and use fresh herbs and vegetables from our garden. We also make Herbal soaps using the herbs we grow in our garden. We have extended our club to residences of the community of all ages

Palouse Pollinators

The program is developing and implementing integrated curricula in grades 2 and 6-8 incorporating concepts such as sustainability, community/place-based learning, organic gardening, greenhouse, composting, and recycling. An interest exists in creating linkages with school lunch reform initiatives.

A emerging and developing partnership exists among the Pullman Public Schools, Washington State University College of Education, and the Washington State University Center for Environmental Research, Education & Outreach

Wheeling Country Day School

A private School in Wheeling, WV committed to healthy eating, gardening and supporting businesses and agriculture in our community.

D11 Good Food Project

The D11 Good Food Project brings healthy, fresh, sustainable food to 24,000 students daily across 65 serving locations through the Colorado Springs School District 11 Food & Nutrition Services department.  Last year, $750,000 was put back into the local community through purchases of grass-finished beef, milk, fresh produce, and yes, coffee for our catering department.

The Galileo Garden Project produced 1,000 lbs. of fresh produce for the D11 Good Food Project in the five beds outdoors plus garden beds in our 42' geodesic dome greenhouse between January and September 2012.

Maine School Garden Network

The Maine School Garden Network is a volunteer organization whose mission is to promote and facilitate educational gardens for Maine youth, grades pre-K through high school.  We meet monthly in Brunswick, Maine.  We have a website with resources for educational gardeners and a Maine school garden directory.  We hold professional development conferences for educators and engage in other activities to help get school gardens started and to publicize their benefits.

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