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By combining planning, planting, maintaining and harvesting a garden within our curriculum, three primary goals will be accomplished: 1) increase our urban students' understanding, awareness and gratitude for how produce is grown, 2) supplement existing math, science and health curricula with hands-on experiences in and beyond the classroom, 3) build pride and confidence in individual student accomplishments, no matter at what grade or ability level.

Detroit Waldorf School's Wellness at Waldorf program was developed with the primary mission to strengthen and build our community around the conversation of food. 

Daniel Webster Elementary School (DW) has two garden programs - an in school program, the Garden and Environmental Education Program, is taught by a paid, professional Garden Coordinator and provides students, grades K through 5 with instruction in gardening, composting, nutrition, and environmen

The goal of the garden is to connect students to healthy produce, to help them understand where food comes from, and teach them to be able to grow their own vegetables.

The goal of Clark School's garden is to create dynamic and project based learning opportunities for the students.

Classroom in Bloom's mission is to deepen the connection between people and the land through school and community gardening. 

Cleveland State Community College (CSCC) students will work with Taylor Elementary staff, teachers, and students to develop a Literacy garden at Taylor Elementary School. CSCC English students will read and write with the Taylor Elementary students in the Literacy garden.

Our goal is for our students to graduate from our campus with the skills & understanding of what healthy foods are, how to find the joy of growing them, & the awareness of the environmental impact they have.

Our goal is to develop soil research plots so students can experience hands-on science in the garden. Our school was established on an old farm, where the topsoil had been sold by the previous farmers.