This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The community garden at Micheltorena Elementary School broke ground ...

While it is widely understood that community and and school gardening have innumerable health, well-being and educational benefits, it’s important to realize these benefits don’t magically ...

The program provides educational experiences for students, and provides them with an opportunity to give back to their community.

The community garden at Animas Elementary School features lettuce, kale, beans, cabbage, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli and a small orchard.

The program gets students composting and caring for a school community garden. She added that other schools have gardens, “but I believe ours is unique to the area. We compost everything on-site.

It’s clear now that schools around the country will be closed until at least next fall, but McDaniel hasn’t stopped gardening. “I want people passing by on their daily walks to see that [the garden] ...

The response is Project Giving Garden, where urban growers are being paid to turn 102 metro-area school gardens into a harvest of vegetables that is going back into the community to feed families.

Jim Olexa/Sun NewsLuella Eslick, garden coordinator for the Canterbury School Community Garden, poses with this summer's bounty with Alyssa Jhirad, whose mother has a plot in the garden. CLEVELAND ...

Nix met with several community volunteers during the planning phase, and Marina Mertz with the Florida Wildflower Foundation provided especially invaluable insight into the garden planning process ...

Students at Young Middle School will start a community garden on a nearby plot of land. Courtesy of Faris. By Jewel Wicker – For the AJC. April 27, 2021.

Jewell School garden grows community. Published 12:24 pm Friday, June 13, 2025. ... If there’s one place the Jewell School’s garden program has left its fingerprints, it’s the cafeteria.