The desire to start a school garden came from the creation of a Sustainability Club (now known as the Darnall Earth Saver’s Club) two years ago. A group of 45 students in grades 2-6 come together Fridays after school to decide on ways that we, as a school community, can help and conserve our environment. Creating a new school garden was at the top of their list and is now a reality. We spend our Friday afternoons planting, fertilizing, weeding, harvesting, collecting seeds, and preparing our garden beds for the next planting season.

Let Us Learn is a volunteer-run organization focused on educating and sharing with the community. We have a particular focus on garden-to-table nutrition. Most of our classes are in Title 1 schools in our county.

Our mission: to develop a community where individuals such as chefs, artisans, and mentors share their skills with at-risk youth, and to inspire others to do the same.

Our Vision: to build community through shared skills.

Chester County Food Bank mobilizes the community to ensure access to real, healthy food. The Raised Bed Garden Program increases availability of fresh produce for households at risk of food insecurity by supporting garden installations at partner organizations, providing community education on growing your own food, and by fostering community around food and gardening. Partner gardens are located throughout Chester County at schools, food cupboards, and social service agencies. In 2019 we distributed 46,672 seedlings to partner gardens who collectively grew 34,676 pounds of produce.

Cleveland's Little Garden hope to bring diverse students to caring for the garden and taking in leadership in creating meals to other students in the classroom. We envision a school community that branches out to the neighboring community around food. We hope to educate the parents in healthy eating by advocating it for our students.

Since I became a teacher in 1989, I have always used the outdoors as a basis for my lesson objectives. I helped to develop a Children's Forest outside our school where we emphasized 4 different ecosystems - pond, forest, flower garden and vegetable garden to teach children the importance of biodiversity and caring for the earth. My classes created Trail Guides that included poetry and informational writing about different species so that visitors to our forest could learn and meditate on poetry that pertained to the area they were sitting.

EdVenture is a 501c3 Registered Non-Profit educational institution dedicated to creating new generations of lifelong learners through museum experiences, programming, and camps. Helping shape a new generation of people who love to learn is at the core of all we do. In fact, our mission is to inspire children, youth and the adults who care about them to experience the joy of learning as individuals, as families and as a community.

Seedleaf works to relieve food deserts in north Lexington. We educate youth and adult citizens in our 13 urban garden spaces on market gardening, sustainability, and wellness cultivating the next generation of local food producers and healthy eaters. Our urban gardens also allow the community to come and and harvest for free during the growing season. Seedleaf also provides the public with composting services. We pick up food scraps from homes and businesses and process it at our facilities to be sold as a life-giving soil supplement.

The Meadowfield Elementary School Garden is a learing site for our PreK-5th grade students. We have 12 raised beds located in various areas of the school. We are committed to growing seasonal vegetables and flowers. Recently, we have partnered with Slow Food Columbia to grow endangered, Ark of Taste seeds. This school year, Meadowfield Elementary will be working with the SC Department of Education and several state universities to improve student nutrition and teacher education through gardening.

Our vision is to create a holistic education center that helps our students to begin to create secure and sustainable food systems for our school and community.

Gardening at Presidio Hill School