School Cafeterias

Santa Clara Unified School District - CTE GCC

The SCUSD CTE Garden Connections Teamis a part of a unified collaborative involving seven different SCUSD schools with varying demographics and backgrounds, as well as our child nutrition services department and the SCUSD Farm - to create a K-12 multi-disciplinary Garden Connections Collaborative (GCC). This GCC project includes school garden and culinary clubs, school site visits, mentorship exploration, field trips to our partnering sites as well as surrounding farm-to-fork educational facilities, and reality based education, career-connections opportunities for students.

Cartwright elementary School District Gardens

Our Mission is to serve healthy meals for the body and mind, for positive long-term health and accademic success.

Our vision is to be recognized as the leader in school nurtition by pioneering innovative methods of linking nutrition to life long learning.

We are an urban elementary PreK-8 grade school district that is establishing a district/community garden for the 18,000 students at 21 schools.  We are all provision 2 schools feeding all of our students free meals (we were at 95.3% free and reduced prior to Provision 2). 

Agua Caliente Elementary

Our program at Agua Caliente Elementary School (ACES) is brand new, as of 2017. Although the school has had a garden for nearly a decade, it has not been highly cultivated. Under a new wellness coordinator and thanks to several grants, ACES is determined to establish a central school garden. The school's mission is a primary focus on health and wellness, with the garden playing a central role in education, socialization and inspiration.

ACES serves elementary school students from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds in an all-inclusive hands-on education system. 

Winton Middle School

      Winton Middle School is a low-income school, the majority of students are English Language Learners. 100% of students receive free breakfast and lunch. WMS is solely funded through Title 1 funds. Students enrolled are in grades 6-8. WMS utilizes Common Core and NGSS Standards. The classroom in charge of the school garden is my class, the Special Day Class (SDC) in which students have a variety of disabilities and learning challenges. 

Una escuela de colores

Our mission is to seek that our communities have access to food education, so that this can provide a life filled with wellbeing and in turn permeate this culture in the immediate family.

Although we have had the opportunity to work for 5 years with public and private schools this time we will start working on a pilot program within a public school that is located in a marginalized area, this school has around 180 children from kindergarten to primary school

ChicopeeFRESH

ChicopeeFRESH is the farm-to-school program of the Chicopee Public Schools. Our mission is to provide every student in the district with access to locally sourced and nutritious meals, along with experiential learning opportunities in the classroom and school garden. Through the ChicopeeFRESH program, we aim to achieve food security in our community, support the New England food economy, and empower our students to develop healthy and positive relationships with their food. 

Golestan Education

At Golestan, we value nature, kindness, creativity, diligence, curiosity, and responsibility.

With the encouragement of altruism and empathy, we strive to foster a community of confident, caring, and compassionate children that value Iranian culture while being responsible and inspiring citizens of our ever-changing, multi-cultural world.

Golestan applies a heuristic approach to teaching and a holistic approach to living.  From the rich lesson plans, to the wholesome foods the children eat, every detail has been thought out and is practiced with the utmost authenticity.

Crescent School Garden

We started our school garden in 2015 after we received our first Ocean Guardian School Grant from NOAA and National Marine Sanctuaries.  

Student in PreK through high school get to participate in growing, learning, and harvesting in our garden. We are working towards getting more of our garden produce in the cafeteria.

Our website is: www.crescentschoolgarden.weebly.com

Real Food SEED (Student Engagement Every Day)

The Real Food SEED (Student Engagement Every Day) project is designed to provide students with authentic learning opportunities connecting them to real food through sensory experiences.  Our programs in the school cafeteria, classroom, school garden, and local farming community engage students in learning about growing food, eating seasonally and mindfully, and preparing and enjoying meals together.  Our goal is to provide all students with the knowledge and skills to make conscious, educated food choices that will nourish them for a lifetime of health.

Plant The Seed Project

Our mission at Plant The Seed Project is to provide the resources and skills necessary for youth to participate in the global food system. For the past two years we have worked with elementary students in the Barnum neighborhood of Denver which is a USDA recognized food desert. The two schools we work with are both Title I schools, thus the majority of our students come from low income backgrounds. We believe in empowering youth to faciilitate every step of the food production process.

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