Our Vision is to reconnect the relationship of children with real food and with nature. Through Parinama Edible Schoolyard China, we aim to help students in China develop other critical life skills, including: A sense of responsibility and ownership of their actions; increased interest in our relationship with food and with nature; improved social responsibilities; social-emotional learning; increased parental involvement.
Aliveschool serves approximately 1600 children in two San Juan area schools: Saint John’s and Baldwin School respectively. Our cafeteria services’ mission is simple: to provide good, healthy food that tastes great. Through our kitchen classrooms we can create connections between a finished plate and its origin with the use of our small gardens that students help build, tend and harvest themselves. The finished products have also been used in our cooking classes as well as cafeteria offerings throughout the school year.
The Barrington Farm School has been operating on a small farm for 3 years , outreaching to students, families, teachers and all levels of the community. The open space has beekeeping, fresh food tastings, student environmental groups, teachers, artists, nature studies and conservation practices. Join us as a volunteer, benefactor, customer, or friend! See you at the farm! We are now protected farm thanks to the generosity of the community, local land trust and the Open Space Program through the State of Rhode Island..
The Newport Project is a place-based, experiential learning program that utilizes the city’s wealth of historical, cultural, and natural features as the starting point for learning in English and integrated science.
Haver til Maver (Gardens to bellies) offers a hands-on culinary organic school garden classroom. During 8 modules (during the growing season (April-October) the students are engaged in activities that stimulate all their senses and learning abilities.
As an NGO we work to ensure that all Danish children will get a chance to have a school garden in their life. Currently there are more than 60 school garden initiatives around Denmark based on the values and principles of a Haver til Maver school garden.
