For the students of Waimea Middle School on Hawaiāi Island, the garden is a place of learning, reflection, nourishment and so much more. MÄlaāai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School was founded in 2005 to cultivate relationships between students and the land...
The team at Eco Urban Gardens (EUG) in Los Angeles partners with schools and their surrounding communities to cultivate edible, educational gardens and neighborhood green spaces. The nonprofit is dedicated to teaching people how to grow food organically using...
As the northernmost state, Alaska has a colder and darker winter than the rest of the country, which also means a shorter outdoor growing season. But at Wrangell Public Schools, educators have figured out a myriad of ways to keep garden-based learning active all year...
Sow it, grow it, eat it, know it! This is the motto of Classroom in Bloom, a one-and-a-half acre non-profit educational garden in Washington Stateās Methow Valley. The organization is dedicated to deepening the connection between people and the land through school and...
California teen Alicia Serratos doesnāt shy away from a challenge. Sheās a student athlete, an accomplished Girl Scout, an environmentalist and social activist ā all at just fifteen years old. Sheās been involved in volunteer projects from a young age, many of which...
When Hurricane Laura passed through Louisiana in 2020, it caused extensive damage to Rosepine Elementary. As they rebuilt, Enrichment Lab teacher Beth Thomas suggested building a STEM lab on campus. The lab had a perfect outdoor space for gardening, but Thomas had no...