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Agriculture in the Classroom
     National Resource Directory

Alice Ferguson Foundation  Maryland

American Community Gardening Association

American Horticultural Society

Boston Schoolyard Initiative

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom

California School Garden Network

Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
University of California Santa Cruz

Center for Ecoliteracy 
Education for Sustainable Living: Seminars, programs, grants

Chicago Botanic Garden 
Community Gardening Programs
Center for Teaching and Learning Programs

Chicago Wilderness Leave No Child Inside Chicagoland

Children's Garden Network Rhode Island

City Blossoms Washington DC

City Green Ringwood, NJ
Dedicated to creating urban community, youth and school gardens in northern New Jersey’s cities to enrich the lives of inner city residents, while cultivating education in public health, nutrition and the environment.

CitySeed New Haven, Conn.

CitySprouts Cambridge, Mass.

Cornell University Garden-Based Learning 

Cultivating Community Portland, Maine
Using organic, sustainable practices to grow food in community and school gardens and at partnering farms for those who are most vulnerable.

D.C. Schoolyard Greening Washington, D.C.

Farm To School 

Green Education Foundation / Green Thumb Challenge 2010
Provides environmental education resources for Pre K-12 classrooms and youth groups nationwide.  Green Thumb Challenge is calling on schools and youth groups nationwide to plant 10,000 classroom and outdoor gardens from Feb 1 through Aug 31, 2010.  Register to receive a $10 off a $50 purchase at Lowe's, and the opportunity to be awarded a $5,000 grant in recognition of their garden project.

GreenNetChicago.org

Green Teacher Network

Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom

Illinois Farm Bureau

Illinois Urban Extension Just for Kids gardening activities

Junior Master Gardener
Curricula, Literature, How-To

Kentucky School Garden Network
Working to create vibrant, sustainable, edible gardens in every public, independent and parochial school in the Commonwealth of Kentucky

KidsGardening.org / National Gardening Association

Lake County Farm Bureau Grayslake, Ill.

Lansing (Mich.) Youth Gardening Coalition
Providing support and resources to youth gardens in the Greater Lansing area.  

Liberty Prairie Conservancy 
Grayslake, Ill.

Macomb County School Garden Initiative Michigan

Morton Arboretum Lisle, Ill.

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
Outdoor Learning Environments Resource List

Project Learning Tree
Award-winning environmental education program

Slow Food in the Schools - Slow Food USA
Garden-to-Table projects providing meaningful, hands-on food experiences and      education to K-12 students

San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance

Share Our Strength
A national organization working to ensure no child in America grows up hungry

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)

Tampa Bay School Gardening Network

The Garden School Spartanburg, S.C.

The Food Project Greater Boston
A national model of engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture

University of California Cooperative Extension Los Angeles County
Common Ground Garden Program

Urban Sprouts San Francisco

Washington Youth Garden at U.S. National Arboretum Washington DC


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