by Sarah Hinckley, Executive Director, Mount Desert Nursery School As robins sucked up worms like spaghetti noodles from our lawn…
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Using Your School Garden to Teach Different Grade Levels
School gardens offer opportunities for nature based education at all grade levels from preschool through high school. Here are links…
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Whitefield Elementary School Garden
At Whitefield Elementary School, the garden and aquaponics program provide hands-on learning for middle school science classes with the younger…
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Get Schools Cooking Grant
Whole Kids has joined forces with Chef Ann Foundation to help districts transition from highly processed meals to scratch cooking. …
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Garden to Cafeteria Toolkit
Slow Food USA, in partnership with Whole Kids, has developed a toolkit to help school district food services safely bring…
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Region 9 Culinary Arts Program
Culinary Arts Seed-to-Plate Gardens Region 9’s Culinary Arts program includes instruction in safety and sanitation, recipe, menu, and meal planning,…
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Ten Tips for a Successful Field Trip
National Park Service Planning a field trip to a national park near you like Acadia? The National Park Service’s website…
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Field Trip Picnic
Are you interested in organizing a picnic for your school garden field trip? What food would the school provide and…
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Sanford Regional Technical Center & Plants Plus Greenhouses
Part of the Landscaping and Horticulture program, the garden project started in 2020 includes a vegetable and herb garden, flowers…
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Maine Outdoor School for All
Maine Outdoor School for All is a network of outdoor environmental learning centers working together with Maine schools and…
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South Bristol School: Greenhouse, Garden and Bees!
South Bristol School students wrote and illustrated this book, titled “The Most Amazing Insect! Bees!” drawing from their experiences with…
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Kids Cooking For Life
Developed by Nutritionists, Approved by Kids Although Kids Cooking For Life (KCL) is located in California, they have excellent online…
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The People’s Garden
Originally launched in 2009 by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, The People’s Garden was named in honor of Abraham Lincoln…
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Leavitt Area High School
During Hive Week at Leavitt Area High School in Turner, students participate in a hands-on, experiential learning course focused on…
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RSU 71 Elementary Gardens – Students Favorite Smoothie Lab Recipes
Lots of Compassion
Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day and KidsGardening share a belief that the garden has the power to do more than grow…
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RSU 71 Elementary Gardens
The RSU 71 Elementary Garden program was inspired by the long-standing middle school garden program at Troy Howard Middle School…
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The Maine FFA Association
The Future Farmers of America was founded almost 100 years ago by a group of educators and young farmers to…
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Stratton Farm to School Garden Program
The Stratton School Farm to School Garden Program, started in 2011, seeks to create a sustainable garden and nutrition program…
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Therapeutic Garden Grant
The National Garden Bureau (NGB) was born in 1920 in the wake of World War I from the inspiration of…
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Wentworth School Garden
The Wentworth School garden broke ground in 2015. The school was brand new and the space allotted for the garden…
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Roberts Farm Experiential Learning
A partnership between the Western Foothills Land Trust, Oxford Hills School District and Healthy Oxford Hills. Roberts Farm Experiential Learning…
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Old Town High School – Alternative Education School Garden
Like the rest of the world, the Old Town High School (OTHS) Alternative Education program was very much impacted by…
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2024 Maine Outdoor Learning Initiative (MOLI)
The Maine DOE is offering 2024 Maine Outdoor Learning Initiative (MOLI) grants to provide programming opportunities to support student learning…
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