The Village Campus garden program at HPA works to teach students in grades K-8 about their place and foods grown locally and sustainably on Hawaii island. The goal is to get kids out of the classroom and into nature to better understand, respect, and care for the natural world. Students learn seed to table practices, market gardening, and how to extend their learning in the garden all while connection to the land, or 'aina.

Our school is being rebuilt so we are starting from scratch to build an Urban Gardening program. We want students to understand the future depends on caring citizens making environmentally sound decisions so we will start with one little classroom at a time.

Our goal is to inspire and engage youth at Luther Burbank HS to pursue futures in sustainable agriculture, food and natural resource management and create a hub of healthy community in south Sacramento.

We learn to care for the earth, and in turn learn to care for each other and even our own selves. We focus on soil regeneration, the use of compost in the garden, and the creation of herbal remedies.

The Berkeley Public School Gardening and Cooking Program engages students with hands-on instruction in the garden. As part of the 2020 Vision and the District’s Integrated Wellness Policy, the Program is woven into student life District-wide to ensure the academic, physical, emotional, and health development of all students to affect three main areas of student learning from preschool through high school:

Academic Achievement: