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Farm-Based Education
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Tomato Planet Activity

Highlights from our ABCs of Farm-Based Education program, including a kid-friendly introduction to learning what seeds need to grow.

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Activity: Introducing the Sustainable Development Goals

Tackling complex global issues like climate change, poverty, food insecurity, and racial inequities can be overwhelming for young people. One way to start is by focusing on some of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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Shearing Our Flock of Farmyard Sheep

Watch our Children's Farmyard flock get sheared and learn about the equipment and process!

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Farm to School
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Making Butter Activity, and the Power of Food Memories

Food holds a lot of power, and it holds a lot of opportunity for us early childhood educators to help set attitudes for life.

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Make a Snowflake - A Project Seasons Activity

In the spirit of winter, we're sharing this favorite activity from our publication, Project Seasons, to help you appreciate the beauty of snowflakes!

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Place-Based Education

Local Action, Global Impact Activity: Studying Community and Place

Two activities we often use to help students cultivate knowledge of place, part one of a new series.

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Place-Based Education

School's Out(doors): Place-based Education Responds to COVID-19 and Beyond

A resource to support you in doing more place-based education. Always a powerful approach to learning, place-based education is also a powerful answer to COVID-19.

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Farm-Based Education
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Summer Learning on the Farm (with Activities!)

We’ve partnered with the Winooski School District to create a summer school program with time both on the farm and in the classroom - read more and get activity inspiration!

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Winter Wildlife Detectives: Print, Pattern & Place

Use the “3 P’s” of tracking — Print, Pattern, and Place — when creating your own story of the secretive lives of wild animals!

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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