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USBerkeley, United States
A food-education program founded in 1995 by chef Alice Waters at a public middle school, using an organic garden and kitchen as classrooms to teach academics and the values of nourishment.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
JPTama, Japan
In 2014 Aiwa Elementary in Tama became Japan's first Edible Schoolyard, modeled on Alice Waters' Berkeley program. The school garden and kitchen serve as 'living classrooms' where children learn through all five senses, from sowing to harvest, cooking and eating, as a formal subject. Pupils experience nutrient cycles, the interconnection of life and ties to their community.
edibleschoolyard-japan.org+2
AUMelbourne, Australia
Founded in 2004 by chef Stephanie Alexander, this 'pleasurable food education' program links school gardens with kitchens. Across more than 1,000 early-childhood services and schools in Australia, children grow, harvest, prepare and share food as curriculum-linked learning. It is internationally recognised as an evidence-backed food-education model.
kitchengardenfoundation.org.au+1
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USNew Orleans, United States
Founded in 2006, this was the first replication of Alice Waters' Berkeley Edible Schoolyard. Gardens encircling the school and a kitchen classroom serve as living classrooms where students at low-income public charter schools learn from seed to table as part of the regular curriculum, now spread across four FirstLine schools.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
USBrooklyn, New York, United States
Opened in 2010 by transforming a concrete parking lot at Brooklyn's P.S. 216 into a half-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom, this is the NYC demonstration school. Children learn from seed to plate while growing about 160 crops, and the model has expanded to network schools in East Harlem and the Bronx, reaching thousands of students.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
JPChuo, Tokyo, Japan
Following its work at Aiwa Elementary in Tama, Edible Schoolyard Japan extended edible education to central Tokyo, where pupils of Chuo Ward's Sakamoto Elementary School take edible lessons linked to the nearby Edible KAYABAEN rooftop garden. It brings garden-based food education, from seed to table, into an inner-city public elementary school.
ediblekayabaen.jp+3
GBLondon (national), United Kingdom
Launched in 2007 by the Royal Horticultural Society, this is the UK's largest school-gardening campaign. It gives children aged 2–18 opportunities to grow plants and connect with nature, supporting over 30,000 schools and groups and some 2.1 million children, and promotes gardening as a teaching tool through teacher training and resources.
rhs.org.uk+1
TWTaichung, Taiwan
A food-and-farming education program in which space-constrained urban schools in Taichung creatively set up campus gardens on rooftops, concrete planters and movable beds to teach children about farming and food, built on the 'Taichung School Food-and-Farming Education Comprehensive Plan (2017-2019)'.
taichung.gov.tw+1
KRDaegu, South Korea
Daegu's urban-agriculture support program centred on school gardens. The city subsidises school gardens at 45 schools plus box, rooftop and balcony gardens and senior healing gardens, advancing food education and cross-generational citizen participation.
cityfarm.daegu.go.kr+1
VNHo Chi Minh City (Thu Duc), Vietnam
A case of school and community gardens with nutrition education in Vietnam's Tam Phu and Dai Hung areas, responding to preschool malnutrition rates of 11.1% and 19.8%. Nutrient-dense, climate-suited plants are grown and added to children's meals such as soups and rice porridge.
b4fn.org
JPTokyo, Japan
A long-running movement reviving Tokyo's near-lost heirloom 'Edo-Tokyo vegetables' in city schools, a horticultural high school and allotments. Over nearly 30 years more than 50 varieties have been registered, linking heritage food culture and farming to the next generation via school lunches and food education.
tokyo-ja.or.jp+3
JPKanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa's 15 certified 'Kaga vegetables' heirlooms are grown, harvested and cooked by schoolchildren in integrated-study programs and featured in food-education booklets and lunches, transmitting the city's heritage food culture and history to the next generation.
www4.city.kanazawa.lg.jp+3
JPOsaka, Japan
Osaka certifies 'Naniwa traditional vegetables'—heirlooms nearly lost to urbanization—and uses them in school gardens and lunches as 'living teaching material,' letting pupils taste and learn the food culture and farming nurtured by Osaka's historic 'kitchen of the nation.'
city.osaka.lg.jp+3
DEBerlin (nationwide), Germany
A German education program built on the idea that the field is the best classroom, fostering children's understanding of food and nature through school gardens. Its hands-on curriculum, cultivating a corner of the schoolyard or school grounds, builds appreciation of food, healthy eating and awareness of food waste. It has grown into the largest school-garden network in the German-speaking world.
gemueseackerdemie.de+2
FIHelsinki, Finland
Partnership between University of Helsinki and Viikki Food Design Factory. Sustainable farming practice and food education on urban campus. Launched first sales at Viikki Local Food Fair in June 2025.
helsinki.fi
TWTaipei, Taiwan
University-community partnership addressing urban food security through campus and neighborhood agriculture with participatory research
mdpi.com
JPKobe (垂水区), Japan
An urban garden run by the incorporated association Tanemaki LAB. With the cooperation of Kobe International University High School, previously unused land inside the school grounds has been brought back into use as a place where local residents gather, work the soil and meet. It is framed not as a plot-rental service but as community-building linking "people to people" and "everyday life to nature", with workshops that let anyone experience the loop from household food scraps to compost, vegetables and the table.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+3
JPKobe (兵庫区), Japan
A community complex created by renovating Minatoyama municipal primary school, closed in 2015, around the theme of "making nature and everyday life". An aquarium, an edible botanical garden, a herb shop, a brewery, a supported-employment facility, childcare and after-school care and welfare services sit side by side, cultivating a place where people, nature and neighbourhood connect. As a partner organisation of the Kobe Compost Project it sets out to work with users to find forms of cycling that are easy to sustain in daily life.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+3
KZAstana, Kazakhstan
A school-garden movement in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana. The Slow Food Community of Astana Urban Producers, led by agronomist Aida Serik, has created 20 school gardens, while in parallel the Bulat Utemuratov Foundation's 'Green School' project has built greenhouses at 19 public schools and one college. Both were reported in January 2025 as work of roughly the previous three years; no exact start year is stated.
slowfood.com+1
PKLahore, Pakistan
A pilot community garden started by the Institute for Art and Culture in Sher Shah Colony, a low-income neighbourhood off Raiwind Road in Lahore. Sited at a government girls' high school, the workshops covered health and nutrition, the economics of growing your own, and season-appropriate vegetables.
thenews.com.pk+1
KZAstana / Almaty, Kazakhstan
An effort to spread greenhouses and gardens through schools in Kazakhstan's capital Astana and in Almaty. The Bulat Utemuratov Foundation runs it as Zhasyl Mektep (Green School) across 36 schools, teaching children healthy-living habits and the basics of planting and growing. In Almaty the fourth season is under way with 16 pupil-managed greenhouses. In parallel, the Slow Food Community of Astana Urban Producers has created 20 school gardens over three years.
slowfood.com+2
ZATsakane, Ekurhuleni, South Africa
A permaculture food garden on 800 m² of school grounds in Tsakane, east of Johannesburg, started in September 2020 by two young men who lost their income in the Covid-19 lockdown. Vegetables, herbs, medicinal plants and edible flowers are grown together; the garden supplies about 20 nearby households and local chefs while teaching growing skills to young people.
foodformzansi.co.za+2
USBoston, United States
A community garden for students and staff that began in summer 2026 on a triangular plot behind University Hall at UMass Boston. Eight raised beds grow tomatoes, lettuce, squash, rosemary, peppers and amethyst basil. The university calls 2026 its pilot year for the project.
umb.edu
MGAntananarivo, Madagascar
In Antananarivo, unused ground at public primary schools is turned into vegetable gardens that feed the school canteen while teaching farming to children and parents. Run by the Axian Foundation and First IMMO together with the Urban Municipality of Antananarivo, the programme had completed 27 sites since 2021. At the five schools inaugurated together in June 2023, 660.5 m² of prepared ground had already yielded 312.5 kg of vegetables from three of them.
fondation-axian.org+1
KZAstana, Kazakhstan
A project of the Bulat Utemuratov Foundation that installs year-round greenhouses in Kazakh schools. Nineteen public schools and one college now have one, where pupils grow vegetables, berries and herbs. It runs in Astana and Almaty; in Almaty 16 greenhouses are tended by pupils from primary to secondary age. For city children unused to working the soil it is often a first experience of growing, and some go on to run experiments and write up their results. In Astana the Slow Food community 'Astana Urban Producers' — represented by agronomist and activist Aida Serik — has developed school gardens over three years.
cityfarmer.info
JMKingston, Jamaica
A project fitting inner-city schools and community sites in Kingston with gardens backed by rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation. It responds to the fact that the city's once-reliable rains have faltered with climate change, making it hard to grow without infrastructure that stores water and releases it slowly. More than JM$14 million (about US$90,000) went into four high schools, the Abilities Foundation and the Greenwich Town community, providing rainwater tanks, hydroponic greenhouses, container gardens and water-purification systems. Since starting in 2018, CityAdapt reports benefiting more than 130,000 people across Jamaica, El Salvador and Mexico.
cityadapt.com+1
USMemphis, United States
In the Raleigh neighbourhood of Memphis, Tennessee, a two-acre plot behind Star Academy Charter School was turned into a $1.5 million learning farm, Urban Roots of Tennessee, reported in August 2026. It includes a year-round greenhouse, a freshwater eco pond, a pollinator garden and learning beds, and serves pupils from pre-K to 8th grade. The school frames it as going beyond standardised-test preparation to teach children "how they can compete in these increasingly globalized and automated communities".
wreg.com+1
KHPhnom Penh, Cambodia
A project creating agroecological vegetable gardens in the yards of Phnom Penh's public schools, so that students in a city with very little green space can work with soil and learn how food and environment connect. It starts from the gap between the WHO's recommended 9 m² of green space per capita and Phnom Penh's 1.1 m².
eclosio.ong+1
QADoha, Qatar
A former school courtyard in Doha — the Qatar Preparatory School — converted into a community garden open to residents. It opened on 13 November 2025 as an event tied to a Qatar Museums exhibition, designed so that visitors learn hands-on about growing vegetables in Qatar's climate, composting and cutting food waste. The enclosed courtyard also provides a microclimate that suits growing in a hot, windy setting.
qm.org.qa+1
BBNationwide (3 secondary schools), Barbados
Launched on 28 March 2025 at Grantley Adams Memorial School, this Barbadian school-garden project has students at three secondary schools grow their own food in low-cost self-watering wick beds made from five-gallon buckets, framed as a single lesson on food insecurity, nutrition and climate change.
paho.org
WSApia, Samoa
A national school-garden programme launched on 2 October 2025 by Education Minister Aiono Alec Ekeroma, with Avele College as the pilot school. It turns school grounds into living classrooms, linking national aims in education, health, food security and climate adaptation to the daily growing work of students.
samoanconservationist.com