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- UBC Farm is the last working farm in Vancouver that includes teaching gardens, open fields, student-run organic market, research sites and community gardens.
Garden Programs
- Garden Mosaic addresses issues related to science education, positive role modeling for youth, green space in cities, and sustainable agriculture. Provides teaching materials, activities and information.
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Terra Nova Schoolyard Project, Richmond, BC connects elementary and high school students with the earth, the community around them and agriculture at large. Students learn to grow, monitor, harvest and eat nutritiously on a weekly basis. Founder Chef Ian Lai coordinates activities with the help of volunteers, the children’s teachers and the City of Richmond. This project was inspired by the Landed Learning Project.
- The Edible Schoolyard, Berkeley, California in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom. Using food systems as a unifying concept, students learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Experiences in the kitchen and garden foster a better understanding of how the natural world sustains us, and promote the environmental and social well being of our school community.
Intergenerational programs, associations
- Generations United stimulates collaboration between aging, children, and youth organizations, and provides a forum to explore areas of common ground while celebrating the richness of each generation
- i2i Intergenerational Society has been created by educators, health care workers, elders, community, youth and parents, to promote intergenerational learning opportunities, and to assist in developing rich and sustainable connections between generations. The ‘i2i’ is an abbreviation of our purpose, an ‘invitation (i) to intergenerational immersion (2i)’
Food-Land-Agriculture - educational programs
- Agriculture in the Classroom provides variery of resources for teachers and students around issues realted to food production and the role of agriculture in the economy and society.
- Kidsgardening.com offers a range of information and curriculum materials for anyone involved in youth gardening.
- National 4-H Council provides grants, establishes programs, designs and publishes curriculum and reference materials.
- Growing Chefs Growing Chefs is a non-profit society that unites chefs, growers, educators and community members in a food sustainability project. Currently Growing Chefs is focusing on an in-class gardening and vegetable awareness project. Through direct experience, students explore the concept of food sustainability.
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